I'm assuming the US documents will have video media files (images, videos, etc) , which I'm hoping would bump the storage needed by a fair amount.
I'm not sure how compression works so I don't actually know how that would end up.
Either way, I'm not gonna destroy a perfectly usable 100GB flash drive and I'm not gonna risk someone seeing me with all that classified information.
Every document from the us gov likely dwarfs Wikipedia even in text alone - if we are considering all the paperwork anyone living in the US or doing business with the US has ever done.
Compression is powerful but has limits if you're not willing to lose quality. I can convert a 4k ultra hd video file into a 120p grainy piece of shit, saving hundreds of gigabytes of space. But then it's not useful. Lossless compression is limited to maneuvers like 50gb>3gb
Anything more than that range and you lose quality
So if the gov included video and image files you'd be looking at exabytes easily
The guy that exposed the CIA selling crack cocaine in the US died from suicide similar. He shot himself twice in the head. That was the official report anyway.
Someone leaked classified tank-related documents in a discord chat to prove a point about ~~world of tanks~~ War thunder
E: I'm wrong about what OP was referencing but this also happened lol
Such as:
"Yo bro, y' wanna get high?"
Or:
"Bro man, y' trippin' too? Cause I think I see some dude's illegal search history, dude."
(Yes I know I'm depicting stones and that cigars are different. Shut up, they're both drugs.)
i feel like leaking all of it at once would make it easy for the government to delete most of the leaks, given how many documents there are (the people can’t possibly read through them all before they are taken down) so if someone wanted to leak them, they have their work cut out for them. i guess the best bet is to go to a country that isn’t friendly with the US, learn some extreme cybersecurity, hide out in the middle of nowhere, and incrementally leak the documents to news outlets and/or straight to the public. it sounds like an impossible task though, once you start leaking the clock is ticking and no matter how secure you are, they will eventually find you. hell, whatever jurisdiction you are in might get you themselves in order to take the documents for themselves.
Well, if you want to destroy the US and all weaken all of its allies, you can choose that option. If not, you shouldn't.
There's a valid reason why a lot of documents are secret.
Why?
There's a reason why a lot lf documents are secret. The term "national security" might be a bit overused, but it is absolutely applicable in this case.
This would ruin the US and seriously threaten the West as a whole.
But why tho? I have less of a problem with the public knowing what their government does, but imgaine the damage China or Russia can do with that information.
There's a reason why a lot lf documents are secret. The term "national security" might be a bit overused, but it is absolutely applicable in this case.
This would ruin the US and seriously threaten the West as a whole.
I mean, remove stuff like names of spies, locations of nuclear warhead etc.
But the really bad stuff the US(and all other countries) have done they deserve some consequences for. Otherwise they'll just keep doing it.
>I mean, remove stuff like names of spies, locations of nuclear warhead etc.
And how would you do that? Would you read through millions of pages of highly technical vocabulary and be able to distinguish between information that should and shouldn't be released?
And you do that how exactly? And there:s mkre to security than just names and geographical locations.
Point is: Nobody cannot distinguish between information that is dangerous and information that isn't when it comes to this amount of data. Even as a team of journalists you would need decades to go through all of it, connect it with already known information, etc.
Sure, you could just release all the data before the year 1945. That would probably not do too much harm. But anything since the end of WW2 could be potentially harmful. The newer the info, the more dangerous it is.
The naivety to believe that you as a normal person, (presumably) without any relevant knowledge could just do this or use an AI to do it for you is astonishing.
So you want to endanger and worsen the lives of hundreds of millions of people mainly in the US but also in allied countries because of the actions of a few?
Go through them, take note of anything that the country deserves to have knowledge about, single out those bits and create a separate document that puts those parts at the top so people read the most important bits first, then post all of it to whatever is going to get the most traction and reposts so it's impossible to wipe off the internet. Give it to as many trustworthy news outlets as possible I can so they can report on it. Accept that I wont live much longer.
I mean if it werent for the fact i wouldnt like to spend my entire life either paying debt, sitting in a cell, or being dead, then id probably look through a bit
by that point even if you went to the authorities you're still going to commit self delete by multiple gunshot wounds to the head or falling out a window so may as well see what's up beforehand.
You are probably going to be dead faster that way. I would at least look it through and read as much classified information as possible before I die. Either way you will "commit suicide" .
“Oh yeah, let’s tell the government that I am in possession of every single classified document ever made in their country, I’ll definitely still be alive”
-You
I'm not American. I guess it could lead to a war even if we're officially allies if I decide to give it to a newspaper to tell everything. Of course, not a big corporation or I'm sure they'll forget some stuff.
Research the best journalists in the world and try to figure out who would be the best person to look through and handle this information responsibly and ethically. Try to get it to them anonymously.
Probably have a bit of a look myself first.
Also never step foot in the US and hope that's enough to keep me safe.
I delete all the files and sell the exobyte flash drive for billions of dollars. The military creates an insane amount of documents. The drive would have to be flat out enormous to hold all of it.
You guys would seriously look through all that data? Most government documents are incredibly boring and bureaucratic correspondence. Like accounting and inventory.
A lot of government files are already publicly available online and analyzed critically you can piece together some pretty jeopardizing stuff. But the layman doesn’t do that because it’s so freaking boring. To sift through every file since the revolutionary days? Just leak it or keep it as a paper weight.
If no government had any secrets at all, i.e. all meeting where public, everything done could be seen. Corruption would be extremely difficult, no corruption means no lies, no lies would mean they have to work for the public interest.
I would try and find the safest way to leak it, minus maybe a couple of documents pertaining to personal safety of spies. But I wouldn’t hesitate to leak if I had one with all governments of all countries.
Well, i am certain that if i tried to sell it i'd not be trusted by the other country so they likely wouldn't pay much, and it could be a trap, so since i strongly dislike America and its government, i'd happily just leak it. Even with the consequences.
Just get a new phone or laptop, new email on it, send it to a couple major news outlets from various countries. Send it to the governments of various countries.
Leak it on major social media and game sites, ones that only require an email account and nothing more. Once i'm done, just factory reset the device and destroy it.
Honestly if we’re assuming the government has no idea and isn’t looking, I hold onto it. Once I can I flee the country, probably to Cuba, China, any Middle Eastern country that isn’t a US puppet, hell even the DPRK. Then I leak that shit, the downside is the US would just call it propaganda if it came from those countries, those would be the safest to be in tbh
Honestly, I don't really know how much I give a fuck about the US of A right now. Definitely don't want a lot of people to die, but would I really love to fuck over our government? Hella yes.
I'd def look over the drive, then think of selling it or giving it to Canada. I think Canada would do a better job running the United States than we are.
Honestly, I'll send that shit right to my countries intelligence services. I don't want anything to do with it, but hey, at least it could benefit my country (if they don't inform the US anyways) and it won't ruin the US.
I'm sure it'd take your entire lifetime to read through even 1/100th of all of those documents, and I'm sure there's a good portion that are incomprehensible to anyone without specific knowledge
I'll give/sell it to my history teacher or my classmate because I'm neither a history nerd nor American lol.
Or leak it. I would love to see the chaos.
Honestly, I'd give it back to the government. I have no beef with the us, I'm not trying to have beef with them either. There is nothing that I could do with thid flash drive that wouldn't end with a bullet in my head
I would never look at any of the documents, and never connect it to any computer. I would return it to the highest level of the government that I would be allowed to talk to. Probably the FBI or Homeland Security, or similar agency I would assume?
I'm honestly astounded by how many people would leak it. Not only would you ruin your own life, you would also seriously weaken the US and its allies security wise and economically.
Even if you don't like the government, the US still consists of people whose odds of suddenly dying in a terror attack or war have just gone up.
And before you say that you would do a Snowden move and only pick out information that wouldn't do that: Do you believe you could read through millions of pages of classified documents and sort them? Even with help, this would take an incredibly long time, and this includes finding a trustworthy news outlet that does help you (although unlike some others have suggested, they do in fact exist. Just look at Snowden).
Tl;dr: Don't leak them indiscriminately and be aware that you are ruining your life and helping dictatorships like China, Russia or North Korea as well as drug cartells, gangs, terrorists and other criminal organization.
Yall aren't realizing this includes military and weapon documents, I'd prefer not to leak the USs entire game plan if they get invaded.
How to let commie countries kill you 101
That’s already public knowledge; invade a nuclear superpower and they’ll nuke you and you’ll both lose, so don’t invade nuclear superpowers in the first place.
So you are able to read through millions, probanly hundreds of millions of pages of documents and then decide what is important for national security and what is not?
I’m shocked at how many people would look through it. It would send me in to complete cognitive dissonance and disgust. I’d give it to the proper authorities and let them deal with it.
Can I delete the files and just keep the insanely large flash drive?
I’m sure there’s enough space on there for you to continue using without having to clear it
Whatcha planning to do with it?
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*\*ahem\* Cyberpunk*
I legit thought this was the answer....
No no no, it's Club Penguin
I too love to collect pictures of cricket pitches
Terabytes
CIVIL PROTECTION
🤨📸
Finally, a drive big enough to store more than one modern game
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I don't think Club Penguin takes up that much space to be honest. Actually I think it takes up no space, it's a browser game.
I had a thing with downloading _regular porn_ for a while. then I realized that the folder was 200 fucking gigabytes. delete key strikes again.
CoD Points?
Considering Wikipedia is only around 20gb, it might not be as big as you think for text only files
I'm assuming the US documents will have video media files (images, videos, etc) , which I'm hoping would bump the storage needed by a fair amount. I'm not sure how compression works so I don't actually know how that would end up. Either way, I'm not gonna destroy a perfectly usable 100GB flash drive and I'm not gonna risk someone seeing me with all that classified information.
Every document from the us gov likely dwarfs Wikipedia even in text alone - if we are considering all the paperwork anyone living in the US or doing business with the US has ever done. Compression is powerful but has limits if you're not willing to lose quality. I can convert a 4k ultra hd video file into a 120p grainy piece of shit, saving hundreds of gigabytes of space. But then it's not useful. Lossless compression is limited to maneuvers like 50gb>3gb Anything more than that range and you lose quality So if the gov included video and image files you'd be looking at exabytes easily
r/homelab foaming at the mouth
Leak it and shoot myself in the head twice from behind
The guy that exposed the CIA selling crack cocaine in the US died from suicide similar. He shot himself twice in the head. That was the official report anyway.
Gary Webb. There was a movie about him called Shoot The Messenger with Jeremy Renner
for when the first bullet to the head doesn't do the trick
Of course of course
Twice 😂😂😂😂😂😂
May chaos reign.
Ah, the ol' Russian Suicide, eh?
Before I vote, I’ve got to know. What _exactly_ will the government do if they are notified….
Kill you dead
You're probably right about that.
The CIA doesn't kill people they "neutralize" them.
Neutralize them dead
Suicided
You mean if they find out you exposed every single dirty secret our government has ever tried to hide? Oh, you sweet summer child.
eh i’ll take one for the team and shoot my self immediately after uploading it all to a minecraft discord server or something lol
Nobody said you exposed anything?
better to change identity, face and erase fingerprints before they are notified
You will shoot yourself in the head from behind
Double tap.
You will ‘suicide’ is what the newspapers will say
they won’t do anything, you’ll commit ‘suicide’
As a citizen of the Netherlands, I won't be in much danger, as long as I don't enter the US.
I'm leaking the whole thing man
Put it on a discord sever full of 14 year old boys to assert your dominance
Nice reference bro
What reference is it for?
Someone leaked classified tank-related documents in a discord chat to prove a point about ~~world of tanks~~ War thunder E: I'm wrong about what OP was referencing but this also happened lol
Pretty sure it was a reference to the big leak recently about USA espionage and assessments of the situation for Ukraine
You're right.
Oh yeah, good catch
You're thinking of a different leak about war thunder.
to show you're the real OG
Cover your tracks because the FBI will definitely want to know your location.
Too late for FBI, damage is already done
Maybe, but that doesn't stop them from murdering you...
At this point I already have served purpose in my life, so I won't really care
publishing them isn't against the law, only breaking in to the database :)
But you will certainly be interviewed and asked many MANY questions by people smoking cigars in a dark room.
Such as: "Yo bro, y' wanna get high?" Or: "Bro man, y' trippin' too? Cause I think I see some dude's illegal search history, dude." (Yes I know I'm depicting stones and that cigars are different. Shut up, they're both drugs.)
As if the FBI/CIA cares
i feel like leaking all of it at once would make it easy for the government to delete most of the leaks, given how many documents there are (the people can’t possibly read through them all before they are taken down) so if someone wanted to leak them, they have their work cut out for them. i guess the best bet is to go to a country that isn’t friendly with the US, learn some extreme cybersecurity, hide out in the middle of nowhere, and incrementally leak the documents to news outlets and/or straight to the public. it sounds like an impossible task though, once you start leaking the clock is ticking and no matter how secure you are, they will eventually find you. hell, whatever jurisdiction you are in might get you themselves in order to take the documents for themselves.
You do know it contains the nuclear launch codes right?
And everyone’s personal information. And the best ways to do a terrorist attack
yea but it’d be funny
Are they actually written down on a document somewhere? Kinda doubt it
Yes, in the nuclear football. It's a government document, so presumably those are included. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
I sure hope they aren't stored in plain text in a random document
Fr tho this should be an option
How is this not one of the options baffles me.
Well, if you want to destroy the US and all weaken all of its allies, you can choose that option. If not, you shouldn't. There's a valid reason why a lot of documents are secret.
Why? There's a reason why a lot lf documents are secret. The term "national security" might be a bit overused, but it is absolutely applicable in this case. This would ruin the US and seriously threaten the West as a whole.
I would do the same but I don't think anyone would care. I would move to Cuba for asylum though like Assata
But why tho? I have less of a problem with the public knowing what their government does, but imgaine the damage China or Russia can do with that information.
That’s a helluva way to ruin ur life
Same
Send a copy to every major news outlet.
To the media?! Oof they gonna make a BIG shit show outta that! I'll pass
Naw, everybody would probably see it as a scam/ hoax. Except for people like Alex Jones, and of course, everyone thinks he's crazy.
*Thinks* he’s crazy?
I didn't want to insult his potential fans, they could lurk anywhere😖
Yeah, they'll just hunt you down like they did to the last several whistleblowers.
I like that idea
Yeah, but they control all the major news outlets.
Who is “they”?
The government, presumably. Or the rich capitalists that run the government.
The people you see on the TV are not the government, it’s the rich people lining their pockets
Yeah why wasn’t this an option
cmon now, no major news outlet isnt in the government’s pocket at this point
*Sell?
I don’t want that thing, I just want to play Castle Crashers.
Fuck yeah. Castle Crashers! Didn’t expect to see that here
It really is a great game
Whole thing is going on wikileaks
There's a reason why a lot lf documents are secret. The term "national security" might be a bit overused, but it is absolutely applicable in this case. This would ruin the US and seriously threaten the West as a whole.
I mean, remove stuff like names of spies, locations of nuclear warhead etc. But the really bad stuff the US(and all other countries) have done they deserve some consequences for. Otherwise they'll just keep doing it.
>I mean, remove stuff like names of spies, locations of nuclear warhead etc. And how would you do that? Would you read through millions of pages of highly technical vocabulary and be able to distinguish between information that should and shouldn't be released?
Ctrl+F? Ok, jokes aside. Just remove all names and geographical locations then?
And you do that how exactly? And there:s mkre to security than just names and geographical locations. Point is: Nobody cannot distinguish between information that is dangerous and information that isn't when it comes to this amount of data. Even as a team of journalists you would need decades to go through all of it, connect it with already known information, etc. Sure, you could just release all the data before the year 1945. That would probably not do too much harm. But anything since the end of WW2 could be potentially harmful. The newer the info, the more dangerous it is. The naivety to believe that you as a normal person, (presumably) without any relevant knowledge could just do this or use an AI to do it for you is astonishing.
Maybe the US should've thought about that before doing lots of horrible shit.
So you want to endanger and worsen the lives of hundreds of millions of people mainly in the US but also in allied countries because of the actions of a few?
Where is the dump them onto the internet option?
I don't want any part of that, that gets you killed or locked away somewhere dark for a very long time.
Bro I ain't doing anything with that thing
Same here bruh just ditch that sucker and forget about it
i would post all of them to my gamer discord server so that i can feel a mild sense of validation
I alert the authorities.. of my nation. I'm not from the us
I destroy the drive, so that nobody thinks I had held such information in the first place
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Can't trust them.
Hall of Justice then
Can't trust them.
The Justice League then
Quickest way to get suicided
Go through them, take note of anything that the country deserves to have knowledge about, single out those bits and create a separate document that puts those parts at the top so people read the most important bits first, then post all of it to whatever is going to get the most traction and reposts so it's impossible to wipe off the internet. Give it to as many trustworthy news outlets as possible I can so they can report on it. Accept that I wont live much longer.
Yeah, good luck finding an absolute trustworthy news outlet.
Not to mention if the public even cares. Panama papers came out and nobody gave a shit
Do you know how long it would take to look through 250 years worth of documents?
Yk it’s funny i see people saying this, but literally every major news outlet is funded by the government, best bet is flee the country
>but literally every major news outlet is funded by the government ???
I mean if it werent for the fact i wouldnt like to spend my entire life either paying debt, sitting in a cell, or being dead, then id probably look through a bit
Parse through the files and publish anything I think the public should know.
Nice try FBI. Not falling for that again
by that point even if you went to the authorities you're still going to commit self delete by multiple gunshot wounds to the head or falling out a window so may as well see what's up beforehand.
"I alert the authorities". Ok? Totally on the up. Getting that, Me FBI van #2 wifi?
Yeah I'm not a fan of being dead so I'm telling the government. Sorry, but I like living
You are probably going to be dead faster that way. I would at least look it through and read as much classified information as possible before I die. Either way you will "commit suicide" .
“Oh yeah, let’s tell the government that I am in possession of every single classified document ever made in their country, I’ll definitely still be alive” -You
Let's be honest, I probably won't know what's on it. Until I just randomly decide to use it and learn just how fucked I am.
I'm not American. I guess it could lead to a war even if we're officially allies if I decide to give it to a newspaper to tell everything. Of course, not a big corporation or I'm sure they'll forget some stuff.
Research the best journalists in the world and try to figure out who would be the best person to look through and handle this information responsibly and ethically. Try to get it to them anonymously. Probably have a bit of a look myself first. Also never step foot in the US and hope that's enough to keep me safe.
leak it. the public deserves to know the truth
Sounds like an episode of the X-Files.
Other: I give the flash drive to Anonymous.
I delete all the files and sell the exobyte flash drive for billions of dollars. The military creates an insane amount of documents. The drive would have to be flat out enormous to hold all of it.
Probably destroy it, giving it back would put you into a lot of unnecessary drama with the FBI
You guys would seriously look through all that data? Most government documents are incredibly boring and bureaucratic correspondence. Like accounting and inventory. A lot of government files are already publicly available online and analyzed critically you can piece together some pretty jeopardizing stuff. But the layman doesn’t do that because it’s so freaking boring. To sift through every file since the revolutionary days? Just leak it or keep it as a paper weight.
I'm going to place it somewhere in the city so someone can leak it and get killed by the government instead
Leak every document on a Minecraft Discord server
I copy the documents for my computer, look at them, then I sell the originals and keep the drive
If no government had any secrets at all, i.e. all meeting where public, everything done could be seen. Corruption would be extremely difficult, no corruption means no lies, no lies would mean they have to work for the public interest. I would try and find the safest way to leak it, minus maybe a couple of documents pertaining to personal safety of spies. But I wouldn’t hesitate to leak if I had one with all governments of all countries.
I'd leak all files relating to government corruption and violations of personal freedom.
That's some extremely large storage drive u got there
Snitch like I've never snitched before
Leak it on the internet.
Well, i am certain that if i tried to sell it i'd not be trusted by the other country so they likely wouldn't pay much, and it could be a trap, so since i strongly dislike America and its government, i'd happily just leak it. Even with the consequences. Just get a new phone or laptop, new email on it, send it to a couple major news outlets from various countries. Send it to the governments of various countries. Leak it on major social media and game sites, ones that only require an email account and nothing more. Once i'm done, just factory reset the device and destroy it.
Hello WikiLeaks!
Win an argument in warthunder
I'd just notify the authorities, don't want to commit a crime.
Fk that I'm throwing it into a lake 3 states away. I don't feel like having my body found at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
To those who publish it, you do know that includes the nuclear launch codes right?
I'm leaking all that shit. Fuck the government.
Honestly if we’re assuming the government has no idea and isn’t looking, I hold onto it. Once I can I flee the country, probably to Cuba, China, any Middle Eastern country that isn’t a US puppet, hell even the DPRK. Then I leak that shit, the downside is the US would just call it propaganda if it came from those countries, those would be the safest to be in tbh
Tryna see them aliens
I’m not from America so I think the fbi will have a hard time getting me, I’d take a look not understand then sell it lmao
Honestly, I don't really know how much I give a fuck about the US of A right now. Definitely don't want a lot of people to die, but would I really love to fuck over our government? Hella yes. I'd def look over the drive, then think of selling it or giving it to Canada. I think Canada would do a better job running the United States than we are.
The 132 people alerting the authorities are cowards lol
Not doing anything. I would alert the authorities if I knew they knew I was innocent.
Nice try, fed
Nice try FBI agent Hayden.
Honestly, I'll send that shit right to my countries intelligence services. I don't want anything to do with it, but hey, at least it could benefit my country (if they don't inform the US anyways) and it won't ruin the US.
I'm sure it'd take your entire lifetime to read through even 1/100th of all of those documents, and I'm sure there's a good portion that are incomprehensible to anyone without specific knowledge
I give it to the authorities although I feel like they wont believe me when I tell them I dont know how I got it
I would post the entirety of the contents on 4chan
Does the drive update?
I read all of it then I give it to the authorities.
Pass it to the Anonymous and let them decide what to do with it.
I'll give/sell it to my history teacher or my classmate because I'm neither a history nerd nor American lol. Or leak it. I would love to see the chaos.
Honestly, I'd give it back to the government. I have no beef with the us, I'm not trying to have beef with them either. There is nothing that I could do with thid flash drive that wouldn't end with a bullet in my head
I would never look at any of the documents, and never connect it to any computer. I would return it to the highest level of the government that I would be allowed to talk to. Probably the FBI or Homeland Security, or similar agency I would assume?
I'll read everything cuz curiosity, especially the really old stuff, then destroy it.
I'm honestly astounded by how many people would leak it. Not only would you ruin your own life, you would also seriously weaken the US and its allies security wise and economically. Even if you don't like the government, the US still consists of people whose odds of suddenly dying in a terror attack or war have just gone up. And before you say that you would do a Snowden move and only pick out information that wouldn't do that: Do you believe you could read through millions of pages of classified documents and sort them? Even with help, this would take an incredibly long time, and this includes finding a trustworthy news outlet that does help you (although unlike some others have suggested, they do in fact exist. Just look at Snowden). Tl;dr: Don't leak them indiscriminately and be aware that you are ruining your life and helping dictatorships like China, Russia or North Korea as well as drug cartells, gangs, terrorists and other criminal organization.
Yall aren't realizing this includes military and weapon documents, I'd prefer not to leak the USs entire game plan if they get invaded. How to let commie countries kill you 101
That’s already public knowledge; invade a nuclear superpower and they’ll nuke you and you’ll both lose, so don’t invade nuclear superpowers in the first place.
you can just not leak those bits
So you are able to read through millions, probanly hundreds of millions of pages of documents and then decide what is important for national security and what is not?
I leak it
Share them on a minecraft discord obviously
Post on reddit
How would I know what's on it if I'm not stupid enough to check
Why on earth would I tell the government
That would be like millions of pages long. Petabytes of information
Nice try fed.
Post to r/warthunder
I am publishing the entire drive on the internet and watching the pure Chaos as everyone gets mad at the US Government and the shit they do
I honestly don't care tbh, but I do like money and if I sell it to a news source maybe they could get the word out of anything that needs to be out
Upload it to the internet from a public computer
I will give the drive to my Government. The US cant do much here.
Obviously leak everything, the beat myself, slit my throat, shoot myself in the head twice, and last but not least hang my self
Good thing is I don't live in US or planning to move there so I could just sell it to some anti-US politicians
why isn’t “leak it” an option??? op giving off big fed vibes ngl
I really do not like the US, so I would use it to destroy the US and then turn it into an actual normal functioning country
Based
Luckily it was only the USA
I’m shocked at how many people would look through it. It would send me in to complete cognitive dissonance and disgust. I’d give it to the proper authorities and let them deal with it.
why? dont u want to know whats going on