War Thunder players leak military documents on forums, again

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War Thunder players are back at it, posting more restricted military documents on the game's forums when discussing the game's vehicles.

This is not a rare occurence, as War Thunder players have become known for uploading military documents to win arguments against other players or to argue developer Gaijin Entertainment over the realism of the vehicles. It's happened again, not once but twice last week.

On 11th December, one user posted training material for the Norinco VT-4 tank (as reported by Cyber Daily). On 12th December, a user posted a manual for the M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (as reported by Task and Purpose).

The threads containing the documents were quickly removed by War Thunder's moderators. Both sets of documents are unclassified, but contain sensitive information. Additionally, the M2A2 Bradley manual is export controlled.

Gaijin Entertainment founder Anton Yudintsev told Task and Purpose "we did our part in helping to limit the leak" of the M2A2 Bradley documents, but said the manual had been posted on various platforms before someone uploaded it to the War Thunder forums. "We can do nothing with what's happening on other platforms," Yudintsev added.

That now makes it nine times a player has leaked military documents via War Thunder in just 2023 alone, according to the documented occurrences on Wikipedia. The first leak of the year was on 16th January, when military documents were leaked twice in the same week. Talk about déjà vu.
 
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The tank autism is too strong
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Standardized Profile said:
"Someone reposted something they found on the internet somewhere else on the internet" doesn't really have the same ring as "ZOMG TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS LEAKED ON WART HUNDER," does it?
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This is the same shit done with information acquired from public social media/Doxbin which gets posted here. Very dishonest way to sum up what is essentially a repost.
 
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generic sauce said:
Warthunder is a CPP/tencent plot to get autistic retards to leak american military secrets.
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Glow niggers, I know you're here. Develop some cheating tool and hire a bunch of players to dominate in American vehicles until Russians and Chinks start leaking shit out of salt.
Standardized Profile said:
"Someone reposted something they found on the internet somewhere else on the internet" doesn't really have the same ring as "ZOMG TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS LEAKED ON WART HUNDER," does it?
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For legal reasons in the US it's kinda the same thing. To my understanding, there's a level of classification where it's completely legal to own, pass around etc. as an American citizen. But the law was written pre internet, so it bans publishing them in foreign countries. Which is technically the internet. So as far as the DOJ is concerned, posting it is still a leak even you found it already published. And a high profile incident like the ongoing WT is actually going to get them to pay attention.
 
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I love how the people who have access to important documents—and often the vehicles they are about—are the spergs who use said documents to win forum arguments about accuracy in a video game. These people operate tanks. But god forbid a gross tranny's commercial fart porn finds its way onto the forums of a humble community of fruit farmers.

AeroGavin Rossdale said:
For legal reasons in the US it's kinda the same thing. To my understanding, there's a level of classification where it's completely legal to own, pass around etc. as an American citizen. But the law was written pre internet, so it bans publishing them in foreign countries. Which is technically the internet. So as far as the DOJ is concerned, posting it is still a leak even you found it already published. And a high profile incident like the ongoing WT is actually going to get them to pay attention.
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I think this sort of concept also once famously applied to the export of fairly ubiquitous cryptography algorithms from the USA, which led to this excellent shirt:
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Foreign policy almost never makes any sense on paper. Then again, when was the last time anything made sense?
 
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y a t s said:
I love how the people who have access to important documents—and often the vehicles they are about—are the spergs who use said documents to win forum arguments about accuracy in a video game. These people operate tanks. But god forbid a gross tranny's commercial fart porn finds its way onto the forums of a humble community of fruit farmers.


I think this sort of concept also once famously applied to the export of fairly ubiquitous cryptography algorithms from the USA, which led to this excellent shirt:
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Foreign policy almost never makes any sense on paper. Then again, when was the last time anything made sense?
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I'm reminded of the DeCSS debacle, when the commercial DVD encryption algorithm got broke by DVDJon. The harder the recording industry and the governments tried to clamp down on it, the more it got printed on t-shirts and stickers and handed out on fliers on college campuses and so on.
 
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