Key clues in search for source of Pentagon leak

A Newsweek article about classified Pentagon documents recently leaked on social media quotes Shambhu Upadhyaya, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, who said that searching the video game chat platform Discord may be instrumental in the investigation. 

“In my opinion, the Discord platform will hold the key for the forensic investigation since uploads can be accounted for and traced back to an IP address,” he said. “But it may not be very straightforward because the uploader can use a spoofed IP address, if they are smart. The federal investigation probably will start with the Discord platform." 

Read the story here. The article also appeared on MSN and elsewhere.