• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    If I was the US government I would backdoor this website and revoke security clearances for everyone with an account.

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      40 minutes ago

      I had a friend who was joining the Royal Air Force and he was asked during an interview if he was a Warthunder player.

      (I wonder if this information on the interview process in itself is classified. Oops.)

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      3 hours ago

      who’s to say dod hasn’t done this already and is using it to spread false information and monitor spies.

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    8 hours ago

    So basically, if I’m an enemy nation, all I have to do to gain military secrets, is claim a bunch of people online are wrong. Then hope one of them is in possesion of classified documents, and is also an idiot.

    We live in the dumbest timeline.

    • Dashi@lemmy.world
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      17 minutes ago

      “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.”

      -Steve’s law

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      2 hours ago

      I would prefer timeline with dumbest forum fights over one with real.

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    I feel like this should be simple to solve, just say “If anyone ever posts classified info about an in-game stat, that stat is permanently frozen at the current value forever, regardless of accuracy.”

    With a rule like this, posting classified info immediately means you lose the argument, and people only do it cuz they love to argue online.

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      2 hours ago

      Already ahead of you. Gaijin repeats time after time that they cannot under any circumstances use classified/leaked info for stats. Like they legally can’t. So if you post it, they can’t do anything with it neither now nor ever. xD

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        natural enshitification. it’s like the opposite of natural selection where instead of only the strong survive, the remaining suffer and plague the rest of the species.

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    9 hours ago

    It genuinely amuses me that DCS has had very few instances of sensitive or classified information being leaked.

    Whereas frigging War Thunder can’t make it a quarter without needing to scrub their forums.

    I understand the reality is that it is not about authenticity and more about being able to say the missile they schlep around a hanger is the best missile in the world. But still! You would expect the sickos who get off on the exact right shade of deteriorated grey being on a bezel would care more than the War Thunder crowd.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s because playing War Thunder makes people very, very angry.

      Source: I play War Thunder

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        7 hours ago

        I think Gaijin also causes this with how they “artificially balance” vehicles based on vague or basically made-up sources and ignore direct sources when it pleases them. Look at the current fiasco going on with their new $60 tank that can’t even get smoke grenades for the launcher that’s literally on the model for a perfect example.

        Or, that time they refused to buff a WW2 tank and called the Wikipedia article a classified document.