“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

Interestingly, unlike cases where publication like this was in the public interest, as with Reality Winner, Elon Musk has yet to be arrested.

  • ZaktorEnglish
    56·
    5 days ago

    This is a fantasy. People get charged for leaking classified information all the time. It’s just a crime, not a spy thriller.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      312·
      5 days ago

      People get charged for the act of leaking classified information. Hell, our president (ugh) did.

      But the key is that what they actually leaked is never discussed outside of closed door sessions. And it is almost always as part of a lesser, easier to prove, treason or espionage case.

      But actually charging someone because they talked about the space aliens? THAT becomes a huge problem. And that is what we are looking at here.

      • ZaktorEnglish
        12·
        5 days ago

        We are very much not taking about space aliens and “people get charged but the court case doesn’t release classified information” is very different from them not getting charged or getting disappeared.