Classified fighter jet specs leaked on War Thunder – again
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
EXCLUSIVE - Classified military documents have been leaked on the War Thunder forums—again. This time, the Eurofighter Typhoon’s radar system is at the centre of the unauthorised disclosure.
  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    8 hours ago

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

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      27·
      4 hours 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.)

    • Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      From what I understand, almost everything that’s been “leaked” on the forums is widely available elsewhere (like wiki leaks), even though it’s still classified as confidential or secret by the respective government.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      6 hours ago

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

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1282·
    12 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.

  • Artyom@lemm.eeEnglish
    394·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      5 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.worldEnglish
        10·
        6 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.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    491·
    12 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.

    • HubiOPEnglish
      56·
      11 hours ago

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

      Source: I play War Thunder

        • HubiOPEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Force of habit. I’ve been playing it since the beta in 2013.

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        401·
        11 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.

        • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
          31·
          1 hour ago

          WW2 makes it incredibly unlikely

          But, fun fact, Wikipedia and other public websites totally CAN (unknowingly) have sensitive material on them. In large part because saying “Hey. We need you to remove that snippet that said the Asgard landed in Toronto, hitch hiked to Dallas, and blapped JFK” because… it confirms that that is “close enough” to real that it has revealed classified information.

          I am not familiar with this specific event. But I can also see that as just being a catch all policy they have regarding sources to have fewer cases of governments calling them and asking them to remove “something” with the only info being “You know what it is”.

          Its also why a lot of the “War Thunder or whatever has classified information leaks again!” are usually actually more just export control violations (… which are actually MUCH scarier but…).

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Honestly, good on them for fucking with the player base who can’t stop doing stupid shit on their forums for more than a handful of months.