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What kind of content would be distribution that way? Something like battle plans send to individual members? Would they not be able to just snitch the important
by reichardt 9y ago
What kind of content would be distribution that way? Something like battle plans send to individual members? Would they not be able to just snitch the important information without copying word for word the sensitive message?
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoIt's a TON of data. When I was in an alliance during my EVE days we had TONS of "classified" information. It would consist of systems, contents within those systems, daily numbers for corp and alliance transactions, influx of cash, spies, plans, user information, capital and super capital ship information / plans; EVE is such a huge and complex game that many joke that it's a "second job". Well, that means they also have a TON of data that can be used by other corporations / alliances. Such an interesting game. I played for years and always want to go back.
- bsamuels 9y agoThere's two kinds of text-based data that counter intelligence ops try to protect: Forum posts and 'fleet pings'. For forum posts, an adversary can do exactly what you say - just take the meaning of the forum post and write a cable on it. Fleet pings are how massive fleets are formed in EVE. Basically they are a @here ping on Discord, or a server announcement on XMPP or IRC. Fleet pings are important because if you know when your enemy is pinging for fleets, you know when and where to find their fleets to fight them. For that reason, the value in fleet pings is very time sensitive, and cannot be transcribed by a spy in real time. Usually orgs will set up a "ping relay" channel for its top fleet commanders, with a bot that relays pings from enemy alliances. This is a very common interception point for obtaining watermarked pings and burning spies.