Apr 13, 2023
What the Pentagon leak says about online anonymity
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If you think you can be anonymous on the internet, think again.
After dozens of classified government documents were uploaded to an online gaming chat group, the FBI has arrested a suspect in connection with the leak. We’ll get into some of the digital breadcrumbs the suspect left behind and why there may be no such thing as anonymity on the internet. Then, the plot thickens on the Clarence Thomas scandal. Plus, what do Queen Latifah, Daddy Yankee and Super Mario have in common?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- Here’s what we know about the leader of the online group where secret documents were leaked from The New York Times
- “US arrests suspect behind leak of Pentagon documents” from The Guardian
- “Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.” from ProPublica
- “In a Growing Share of U.S. Marriages, Husbands and Wives Earn About the Same” from Pew Research Center
- “You Should’ve Asked” comic
- “That Famous Black Hole Just Got Bigger and Darker” from The New York Times
- “Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama” from Vanity Fair
- “Rupert Murdoch’s divorce settlement had a whole ‘Don’t talk to the Succession writers’ clause” from AV Club
- “Queen Latifah and the Super Mario Bros just made history together” from AV Club
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