What We Know about the Pentagon Leaks

CYBER

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4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Top Secret classified Pentagon documents leaked on a Minecraft Discord server. The pages of documents contain sensitive information about troop placements in Ukraine, rumors about allies, and—weirdly—a character sheet for a tabletop roleplaying game.

On this episode of Cyber, host Matthew Gault takes a back seat and lets Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler interrogate him about what’s in these classified Pentagon documents.

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0:00.0	TAM! It's got the code. It's going to launch.
0:10.4	It's a unit system. I know this.
0:14.8	It's all the files of the old park. It tells you everything.
0:18.7	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.5	Eagle one.
0:22.3	The package is being delivered.
0:26.3	Hello, cyber and Twitch and YouTube listeners out there.
0:32.3	I am Jason Kebler, editor-in-chief of motherboard.
0:35.8	Matt is not away this weekend. This week, sorry,
0:39.5	it is a Tuesday, not a weekend yet. Wishful thinking on my part. He is here as the guest of this
0:46.9	week's cyber because he's been doing a whole lot of reporting. So, hi, Matt. How are you?
0:52.2	I'm doing all right. How are you doing?
0:55.3	I'm good.
0:58.7	I have big shoes to fill.
1:05.3	I feel like every time I do this, I wonder, how does he not screw up the intro every single time?
1:08.2	Well, I seem to.
1:20.3	That's how I know you don't watch it live because I often screw up the intro and the fine people in Twitch and YouTube watch me say, all right, we're going to do this again, everybody.
1:21.4	Everybody don't panic.
1:22.9	I'm going to re-record.
1:24.3	It happens.
1:25.3	Okay.
1:29.3	Well, on the podcast, you don't screw it up. I don't have an intro because I don't have time to write such things.
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