It’s really just mind boggling how many people have access to such critical data, play this one somewhat niche game, and are stupid enough to upload their work documents… like the Venn diagram of humanity covering players of war thunder and weapons company workers is already small, then add in reckless/dumb and it’s so small. But this has happened over half a dozen times now

[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think the Venn diagram of War Thunder players and aerospace engineers (or whatever) is small at all. I mean, you can't help what you're into, and if you chose to study and/or work with planes, you probably like planes. Enough to play a video game about them. 3 out of the 7 aerospace engineers I know play War Thunder, which is not insignificant. (And 2 of those play KSP.) I mean, why do you think so many engineers in general play Factorio?

Now, within the group of War Thunder && Aerospace Engineers, there are obviously a few morons, as with any group. Enough to risk their jobs, yes, is surprising.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's higher than a half dozen. I'm looking for the article I read yesterday, but I do know it was 7 leaks in like February this year.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are at least a dozen now according to wikipedia.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I found the article, and edited my comment with the link to the article and the wiki.

It's just mind boggling that these people have access to this information at all. Kinda feel like having a war thunder account should bar you from access to classified information at this point.