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Old and busted: professional spies spending lifetimes infiltrating governments and using sophisticated spy thriller technology to get data out. New hotness: so
by api 4y ago
Old and busted: professional spies spending lifetimes infiltrating governments and using sophisticated spy thriller technology to get data out.
New hotness: some random gamer dude exfiltrating secret documents to a Discord chat called "Thug Shaker" to impress other random gamer dudes, then the documents leak to 4chan and a Minecraft forum.
Seriously though... this stuff shows just how hard it is these days to contain information if you are running any kind of organization at scale.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoThere's a long tradition on the War Thunder forums of gamers getting into arguments about the capabilities of military vehicles and trying to settle the argument by leaking classified documents
- Alifatisk 4y agoNO way!
- Rebelgecko 4y agoIt's happened at least 10 times, there's a nicely formatted table about it on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Classified_documents_leaks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Classified_docum...