29 points

Bruh no way

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18 points

Wait. It’s hosted on a Russian site or that’s your system language?

I refuse to look myself and end up on a CIA list lol

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27 points

That’s my system language.

As far as I know Google isn’t a Russian site

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2 points

They didn’t ask if Google was a Russian site, they asked if the PDF was hosted on a Russian site (which is a no, in site case)

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132 points

I hate amazon as much as the next guy but the way this works is documented and well-known. The people who stored it there fucked up.

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31 points

This is a honeypot, stop it.

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6 points

But I like honey?

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19 points
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Not classified. Wouldn’t surprise me if you could find improperly stored proprietary info if you scrolled long enough but not from the US gov. Maybe for some private company that didnt pay for an IT dept though. Also taking a look at the docs, they look fake as fuck.

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28 points

Has anyone read the document? It doesn’t actually look legitimate.

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4 points

Yeah especially the acronyms, JEDI, LEBRON, JORDAN c’mon one. Even astrophysicists aren’t that bad

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12 points

To be fair, the department of defence did have the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting for a few years ago, so it’s not much of a stretch.

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11 points

Yeah it’s not real

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1 point

Yeah especially the acronyms, JEDI, LEBRON, JORDAN c’mon one. Even astrophysicists aren’t that bad

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17 points

A lot of them look legit, mostly because they are boring. I scanned a few, it’s stuff like the air force’s memo on how to deal with press, or a memo alleging a number of Russian cybersecurity attacks on U.S. assets.

If someone was going to fake releasing stuff like this, they probably wouldn’t do it with such boring documents, they’d put some shit about aliens in there.

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1 point

Boring does not mean legit. In fact, misinformation should look exactly like the real thing.

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10 points

Mmm. So I agree with your initial assessment, but the later rationale not so much

Disinformation is the tool used by war today. Russia is doing A LOT of it as of late coming up on this election cycle and could easily push propaganda and fake news via channels like this.

Similarly, and on the other side of this coin, the US could also do this to push propaganda. You cannot trust things for face value on the internet.

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3 points

Again, if it was propoganda I think it would be more incendiary. You’re free to go through the information if you wish, and there probably are some juicy secrets somewhere in the mess of files, but my spotcheck made me yawn. If you don’t want to live in a world with no truth, you have to start thinking about the intent of the author. If the intent of the author here was to plant misinformation, or to sow division, then they did a terrible job at it. What little I read gave me no interest in reading more.

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33 points

What? You’re doubting the legitimacy of the top secret J.O.R.D.A.N. bill? What next, you’ll call the L.E.B.R.O.N. bill into question as well? I’m flabbergasted at your unending skepticism.

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