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[–] switches@kbin.social 102 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i feel like every military needs to go through their personnel and fire every war thunder player on principle at this point. like come on.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My pet theory is that the military uses the war thunder forums as a honeypot to catch leakers.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Isn't that the general theory?

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Security clearance red flag

[–] feral_hedgehog@pawb.social 96 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Every damn week...

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

I like when it's to win an argument. But it seems it wasn't the case here?

[–] AnyProgressIsGood@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And the game is far from a simulator. That's what I don't get. Like if it was steel beasts or arma or dcs it'd make sense to me.

But war of duty. I just don't get

[–] MyFeetOwnMySoul@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They can't keep doing this!

How hard is it to not leak sensitive military documents??

[–] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 years ago

Being right on the Internet > OPSEC and NATSEC secrets

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Well, I just checked, the US military has over one million active personnel, and if 1% of them are dumb, and 1% of that are especially dumb, that's still over a hundred people. So if a few of them play War Thunder... yup.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

Well, I would assume "Not Very".

But, you know, people are thick...

...very thick.

[–] Dangdoggo@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is getting outrageous. Do you think they'll hit a 15 streak before playing War Thunder is court marshallable?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is War Thunder even a good game? The only time I hear about it is after these leaks. Then it's like viral marketing and I think "this game must be awesome if people are committing crimes to get minor Stat changes" then I forget about it for a few months until the next leak.

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

It is a free pay-to-win shooter. It is designed to get certain types of people addicted to it, to most other people it is boring as hell.

[–] IamRoot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

The UCMJ will take care of them.

What an idiot.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I think this makes it leak #18 from the forums

Turns out baiting nerds into internet arguments is significantly more effective then foreign op agents infiltrating the dod.