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by bbq 1158 days ago
Yup, IMHO what was leaked in this case is not so important. What is important is how it was leaked, how long it was leaked for, and how long it took to notice.

edit: OK, I was wrong here with my priorities.

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How many people would need to be killed for you to consider the leak important? How many friendly countries involved in an ongoing war with your number one adversarial nation for the last 80s have to have their spring offensive plans impacted in the middle of a war would make this 'important' to your mind?
Yikes. Please do tell how you came to that conclusion.
Yes, you're right. I failed to keep a full perspective when I wrote that. I won't defend that.

I do feel it's significant that it took about a month from the sharing on that minecraft server for these leaks to be recognized. I'm surprised no one on the server flagged it, or it wasn't picked up by some intelligence program. That's where my shock came from. It feels like a deeper problem. Maybe I'm naive in believing the military/intelligence community didn't know before this news broke.