alice , 2 months ago

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ari OP , 2 months ago

@alice it would be so damn funny if an intern was responsible for setting up cloud storage hosting confidential government documents LOL

could very easily be "nothing"....riiight up until it becomes a little too public, then a "super sophisticated" cyber attack :neocat_floof_happy:

niconiconi , 2 months ago

@ari This meme is not new, and I think it's overblown. 90% (99%?) are declassified or whistleblower materials hosted for news media references.

hrefna , 2 months ago

@niconiconi

Yeah, at a glance—not digging into specifics—the vast majority of them fall under one of four categories:

1. Things that are not classified by virtue of having never been classified.
2. Improperly labeled documents that are probably fake.
3. Declassified documents.
4. I don't know for sure, but at least some seem likely to be things that are already in the public sphere in one way or another (whistleblower etc). Not accidental releases of classified docs.

@ari

niconiconi , 2 months ago

@hrefna @ari If I recall correctly, the last time I checked I found some results were just Snowden papers on The Intercept's S3 repo...

hrefna , 2 months ago

@niconiconi

Yeah, at a glance I saw things like that along with some things that go back to a "humor" website and that aren't correctly labeled (and thus fake), a few declassified documents, and a few documents that have non-classified-but-sensitive markings (FOUO etc) and may very well just be leaked via a whistleblower or at least in one case are only really under the marking once filled out, which that version was not.

Basically a whole lot of nothing.

@ari