Jack Teixeira avoids spy charges, reduces sentence from up to 60 years.

  • stevedidwhat_infosec
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    9 months ago

    This is why it’s important to teach kids impulse control and personal responsibility

    Also maybe we should consider 26 for the age to have access to military docs - how fucking embarrassing as a country too like I wonder how this looks to foreign militaries lmao

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I suspect this is not just a U.S. problem, or at least risk. Most militaries have large numbers of teenagers in their ranks, including many countries with mandatory military service. The U.S. has one of the largest militaries in the world, so there’s a large opportunity for some kid to do something stupid. Maybe we haven’t heard of something similar from other large countries because many of the largest militaries are in some more repressive regimes, either because something embarrassing just wouldn’t make the news, or the fear of harsher punishments keeps people more aware of staying on the right side of the law.