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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Yes, a great POTENTIAL for a much BIGGER anti-social action than merely showing off knowledge of US secrets and US spying on other friendly countries. It seems that this problem was "nipped in the bud", but why did it take so long (over a year) to be discovered?
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Because the internet is an ugly, ugly place. There are over six MILLION servers on Discord, each with its own members, some public, some private, some semi-public (you just need someone to OK your request but anyone who asks for it will get it). Each server is "owned" by its own person/group/company.
The FBI doesn't monitor every single person who logs in to every single server 24/7. Not to mention each account has the ability to DM/PM (private/direct message) any of the other accounts that they share servers with, and many members are members of multiple servers.
The owners of the servers aren't able to see the private messages sent between individuals; only what is posted on their chat channels.
There is one server I know of, specifically, that is run by literal neo-nazis, and they promote violence against Jews, blacks, Catholics, Muslims, Mexicans, and any one /else/ if they don't live in either Germany or the USA. They use code words to get around anyone trying to catch conversations triggered by actual words (such as gun, rifle, death, Washington DC, and the categories I just mentioned higher in this paragraph).
One of the members of the neo-nazi server was playing the game I play, and that person has since been banned from the game I play, and our Discord server.
But that's the kind of world we live in. And these are the kinds of people who are seeing any confidential/classified material that some idiot grown-ass ADULT (he's 21) part-time ANG twit chooses to share with their gamer pals.