Leaking - Revision history

Eric Mukherjee: /* 2026 Multi-Set Leak Incident */

2026-04-07T14:01:16Z

2026 Multi-Set Leak Incident

Eric Mukherjee: /* Notable Incidents Of Threatened or Actual Leaking */

2026-04-07T14:00:27Z

Notable Incidents Of Threatened or Actual Leaking

William Horton: Cleaning up reference that i missed

2026-04-07T12:46:55Z

Cleaning up reference that i missed

William Horton: Again removing because there was no leak, and whether there was even a threatened leak depends on you taking the perspective of one side of the dispute. Nothing in the public record supports the idea that this editor threatened to leak.

2026-04-07T12:43:08Z

Again removing because there was no leak, and whether there was even a threatened leak depends on you taking the perspective of one side of the dispute. Nothing in the public record supports the idea that this editor threatened to leak.

Eric Mukherjee at 12:22, 7 April 2026

2026-04-07T12:22:32Z

Eric Mukherjee: /* Notable Incidents Of Threatened or Actual Leaking */

2026-04-06T17:45:15Z

Notable Incidents Of Threatened or Actual Leaking

Eric Mukherjee: Undo revision 71690 by William Horton (talk)

2026-04-06T17:43:13Z

Undo revision 71690 by William Horton (talk)

William Horton: This incident can be documented on the wiki somewhere, but it seems pretty unfair to Billy Beyer to include him on a page about leakers when he didn't leak a set.

2026-04-05T17:42:08Z

This incident can be documented on the wiki somewhere, but it seems pretty unfair to Billy Beyer to include him on a page about leakers when he didn't leak a set.

Eric Mukherjee: /* Notable Incidents */

2026-04-05T16:38:15Z

Notable Incidents

Eric Mukherjee: /* Notable Incidents */

2026-04-05T16:37:46Z

Notable Incidents

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 ===2026 Multi-Set Leak Incident===
-The '''2026 multi-set leak incident''' refers to a major quizbowl misconduct case involving Individual X, a high schooler, who violated the security of multiple tournaments. While serving as a contributor to the set [[MONSTER]], Individual X accessed and publicly read questions from the unreleased set (and several others) in a Discord server without authorization. This prompted his removal from the set, reports to the Quizbowl Misconduct Committee and sanctions from NAQT. Following these sanctions, X escalated the situation by privately threatening to leak the set unless certain demands were met within a fixed timeframe, and by making unfounded public accusations that other contributors had similarly compromised question security. When confronted, he leaked a separate set he had head-edited, thus derailing multiple already-scheduled mirrors. The episode prompted broad community backlash, leading to X's removal from quizbowl at large.
+The '''2026 multi-set leak incident''' refers to a major quizbowl misconduct case involving Individual X, a high schooler, who violated the security of multiple tournaments. While serving as a contributor to the set [[MONSTER]], Individual X accessed and publicly read questions from the unreleased set (and several others) in a Discord server without authorization. This prompted his removal from the set, reports to the Quizbowl Misconduct Committee and sanctions from NAQT. Following these sanctions, X escalated the situation by privately threatening to leak the set unless certain demands were met within a fixed timeframe, and by making unfounded public accusations that other contributors had similarly compromised question security. When confronted, he leaked a separate set he had head-edited ([[HISTONE]]), thus derailing multiple already-scheduled mirrors. The episode prompted broad community backlash, leading to X's removal from quizbowl at large.
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 The situation escalated due to the timing and stakes: the set was incomplete, the tournament was imminent, and the threatened withdrawal or exposure of content would have significantly disrupted production. While the set was ultimately completed and played, the incident sparked [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=348142 extensive community discussion] about the norms governing question ownership, contributor rights, and the limits of acceptable conduct. In particular, it highlighted the tension between a contributor’s right to withdraw labor and the expectation that contributors not take actions that would materially harm a set already in production.
-===2026 Holy Leak Week===
+===2026 Multi-Set Leak Incident===
 The '''2026 multi-set leak incident''' refers to a major quizbowl misconduct case involving Individual X, a high schooler, who violated the security of multiple tournaments. While serving as a contributor to the set [[MONSTER]], Individual X accessed and publicly read questions from the unreleased set (and several others) in a Discord server without authorization. This prompted his removal from the set, reports to the Quizbowl Misconduct Committee and sanctions from NAQT. Following these sanctions, X escalated the situation by privately threatening to leak the set unless certain demands were met within a fixed timeframe, and by making unfounded public accusations that other contributors had similarly compromised question security. When confronted, he leaked a separate set he had head-edited, thus derailing multiple already-scheduled mirrors. The episode prompted broad community backlash, leading to X's removal from quizbowl at large.

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 ===2026 Holy Leak Week===
-Holy Week 2026, dubbed '''Holy Leak Week''' or the '''Week of Fools''', saw multiple instances of threatened leaking or other question security malfeasance. These incidents reinforced ongoing concerns about set security, editor conduct, and the risks posed by individuals with access to unreleased materials. These were the Multi-Set Incident (Tuesday, March 31) and the LIQBA Termination Incident (Friday, April 3).
+Holy Week 2026, dubbed '''Holy Leak Week''' or the '''Week of Fools''', saw multiple instances of threatened leaking or other question security malfeasance. These incidents reinforced ongoing concerns about set security, editor conduct, and the risks posed by individuals with access to unreleased materials.
 ====2026 Multi-Set Leak Incident====

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 The '''2026 multi-set leak incident''' refers to a major quizbowl misconduct case involving Individual X, a high schooler, who violated the security of multiple tournaments. While serving as a contributor to the set [[MONSTER]], Individual X accessed and publicly read questions from the unreleased set (and several others) in a Discord server without authorization. This prompted his removal from the set, reports to the Quizbowl Misconduct Committee and sanctions from NAQT. Following these sanctions, X escalated the situation by privately threatening to leak the set unless certain demands were met within a fixed timeframe, and by making unfounded public accusations that other contributors had similarly compromised question security. When confronted, he leaked a separate set he had head-edited, thus derailing multiple already-scheduled mirrors. The episode prompted broad community backlash, leading to X's removal from quizbowl at large.
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 ====2026 Multi-Set Leak Incident====
-The '''2026 multi-set leak incident''' refers to a major quizbowl misconduct case involving [[Samin Asif]] of [[Seven Lakes|Seven Lakes High School]], who violated the security of multiple tournaments. While serving as a contributor to the set [[MONSTER]], Asif accessed and publicly read questions from the unreleased set (and several others) in a Discord server without authorization. This prompted his removal from the set, reports to the Quizbowl Misconduct Committee and sanctions from NAQT. Following these sanctions, Asif escalated the situation by privately threatening to leak the set unless certain demands were met within a fixed timeframe, and by making unfounded public accusations that other contributors had similarly compromised question security.
+The '''2026 multi-set leak incident''' refers to a major quizbowl misconduct case involving Individual X, a high schooler, who violated the security of multiple tournaments. While serving as a contributor to the set [[MONSTER]], Individual X accessed and publicly read questions from the unreleased set (and several others) in a Discord server without authorization. This prompted his removal from the set, reports to the Quizbowl Misconduct Committee and sanctions from NAQT. Following these sanctions, X escalated the situation by privately threatening to leak the set unless certain demands were met within a fixed timeframe, and by making unfounded public accusations that other contributors had similarly compromised question security. When confronted, he leaked a separate set he had head-edited, thus derailing multiple already-scheduled mirrors. The episode prompted broad community backlash, leading to X's removal from quizbowl at large.
 ====2026 LIQBA Termination Incident====
-The '''LIQBA incident (2026)''' - sometimes referred to as the '''Good Friday Massacre''' (after the day on which it occured) involved the termination of [[Billy Beyer]], head editor for the Long Island Quizbowl Alliance (LIQBA), by CEO [[Joe Feldman]] following a prolonged pattern of verbal abuse, disrespect, and unprofessional conduct toward colleagues over the course of nearly a year. After his contract was terminated, Beyer [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=411451#p411451 reportedly disputed that he was bound by confidentiality obligations] and implied he might take adverse actions involving internal LIQBA materials (though not explicitly questions). In response, Feldman [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=411447#p411447 issued a public warning] to the quizbowl community to monitor for any unauthorized distribution of LIQBA questions.
+The '''LIQBA incident (2026)''' - sometimes referred to as the '''Good Friday Massacre''' (after the day on which it occured) involved the termination of the head editor for the Long Island Quizbowl Alliance (LIQBA), by CEO [[Joe Feldman]] following a prolonged pattern of verbal abuse, disrespect, and unprofessional conduct toward colleagues over the course of nearly a year. After his contract was terminated, the edited [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=411451#p411451 reportedly disputed that he was bound by confidentiality obligations] and implied he might take adverse actions involving internal LIQBA materials (though not explicitly questions). In response, Feldman [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=411447#p411447 issued a public warning] to the quizbowl community to monitor for any unauthorized distribution of LIQBA questions.
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 Most instances of leaking are inadvertant (e.g. discussing a single question with someone who hasn't yet played a set), and are easily dealt with by disclosing the leak to an editor so that appropriate remedies can be made. However, in recent times, threats to leak a question set deliberately, and thus invalidate the work of all the writers and editors, have become more common.
-==Notable Incidents==
+==Notable Incidents Of Threatened or Actual Leaking==
 ===2015 NAQT Packet Amnesty Incident===
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 After the team implemented safeguards to protect the material, including initiating copyright registration and sending formal notices, Asif spitefully released [[HISTONE]], a separate set he had head-edited, thus derailing multiple already-scheduled mirrors. The episode prompted broad community backlash, leading to Asif’s removal from the Seven Lakes quizbowl team, firing from [[LIQBA]], and further sanctions from [[NAQT]].
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 ===2015 NAQT Packet Amnesty Incident===
-Before the advent of Locklizard, it was very common for old NAQT packets (particularly SCT and ICT) to be [[Underground packet trade|scanned and sent between teams]], because they were the only packets without electronic versions available. After NAQT determined this was happening, in Winter 2014-5 they [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=296090
+Before the advent of Locklizard, it was very common for old NAQT packets (particularly SCT and ICT) to be [[Underground packet trade|scanned and sent between teams]], because they were the only packets without electronic versions available. After NAQT determined this was happening, in Winter 2014-5 they [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=296090 offered amnesty] to anyone found to be sending packets, in exchange for revealing the names of anyone who had sent them material. This caused a large uproar and ongoing bad blood between NAQT and the wider community, as being forced to "name names" was very controversial.
 ===2017 NAQT ICT Incident===

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		+	===2015 NAQT Packet Amnesty Incident===
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		+	Before the advent of Locklizard, it was very common for old NAQT packets (particularly SCT and ICT) to be [[Underground packet trade\|scanned and sent between teams]], because they were the only packets without electronic versions available. After NAQT determined this was happening, in Winter 2014-5 they [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=296090
		+	offered amnesty] to anyone found to be sending packets, in exchange for revealing the names of anyone who had sent them material. This caused a large uproar and ongoing bad blood between NAQT and the wider community, as being forced to "name names" was very controversial.
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		+	===2017 NAQT ICT Incident===
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		+	:''Main page: [[Anti-NAQT sentiment#"The Barbarism of Monetization"\|The Barbarism of Monetization]]''
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		+	In 2017, [[Ike Jose]] accused [[Eric Mukherjee]] of obtaining a copy of [[2017 ICT]] from another team despite [[Penn]] having not played it, and subsequently threatened to bar him from playing [[2017 Chicago Open]] (a tournament which Ike was head-editing, and which had no relationship to NAQT) and threatened NAQT sanctions for both [[Penn]] and [[Chicago]] (whom Ike was convinced sent the packets to Eric). Ike's vigilante attempt to enforce [[NAQT]]'s intellectual property rights led to a [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19875 larger conversation about NAQT's norms around charging for packets] (which no other collegiate quizbowl organization does); a compromise was reached in which NAQT now provides protected PDFs via [[Locklizard]].

	===2018 Chicago Open===		===2018 Chicago Open===