So through that, Jack unveiled those documents.ĬHAKRABARTI: You know, it's interesting. It's voice, text, video, and it's popular with the gaming community and allows users to create their own servers or join existing servers. And it was leaked over discord, which is a social media app. information on adversaries like China and its weapons tests and how U.S. And those documents painted a picture of the Russia-Ukraine war. What was unveiled was a couple of hundred pages of sensitive and classified documents. It goes back to last year, but most of the reporting has been focused on recently this year. I mean, Jaspreet, I'm reading here that it seems as if there are social media accounts or postings from him that may have contained classified documents as early as February of last year. So first of all, I want to start out with what's latest or what we know most recently about what Jack Teixeira is alleged to have done. Thank you for having me.ĬHAKRABARTI: Okay. She covers defense networks and emerging technologies for the online publication Breaking Defense. PATRICK TUCKER: Hey, thank you so much for having me.ĬHAKRABARTI: Also with us today is Jaspreet Gill. He's science and technology editor at DefenseOne. So how ready really is the Pentagon, i.e., the United States, to offer Department of Defense our military? How ready is it to both wield and defend against information as a weapon of war? Well, Patrick Tucker joins us. He's been charged with two counts of espionage. worker, but he received top secret clearance to maintain various Air Force computer networks.Īnd he allegedly used that clearance to dump hundreds of classified documents into a social media chat room. Air National Guardsman was essentially a low ranking I.T. 21-year-old Jack Teixeira was arrested this month in connection with one of the worst leaks to come out of the Pentagon in recent memory. Back in the United States, the Pentagon is full speed ahead, developing cyber offenses and defenses.īut of course, the Pentagon's data defenses were recently shown to have disturbing vulnerabilities. For example, in just the first few months of Russia's invasion, Ukraine absorbed or fended off more than 50 cyberattacks and launched many of its own. Now, cyber conflict will be central to all war fighting from now on. If someone, say, a young, low ranking Pentagon employee puts top secret documents on the Internet, it's as if that tiny roll of microfilm gets instantly projected around the world. But today, in reality, the whole world is interconnected online. Sounds familiar, right? Straight out of the movies. And the microfilm eventually disappears into the archives. Or mail a microdot full of secrets home in a letter. Pull out your tiny camera and photograph top secret documents, which you then quietly deliver that tiny roll of microfilm to your handler. You infiltrate the enemy's inner sanctum. MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Here's a metaphor for you. Author of " This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends." Transcript Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity reporter for the New York Times. Jaspreet Gill, she covers defense networks and emerging technologies for the online publication Breaking Defense.Īdmiral Mike Rogers, former commander of the U.S. Patrick Tucker, science and technology editor at DefenseOne. Today, On Point: What the leak of hundreds of highly classified national security documents reveals about the Pentagon’s own cyber-security and its readiness for cyber war. And in many ways, that future is already here. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here.Ĭyber warfare is the future of war. US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the arrest made "in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information." (Photo by Stefani REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) FBI agents on Thursday arrested a young national guardsman suspected of being behind a major leak of sensitive US government secrets - including about the Ukraine war. TOPSHOT - This photo illustration created on April 13, 2023, shows the Discord logo and the suspect, national guardsman Jack Teixeira, reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
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