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The War Thunder forum has once again been used to share restricted plane documentation - this time about the F-117 Nighthawk (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 year ago by gabe@literature.cafe to c/technology

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cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/1220527

How many times even has this happened?!?!

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[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's literally a wikipedia page for it.

[–] doboprobodyne@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Damn. I thought #kbin was where the cutting edge of information dissemination was, but #warThunder has a whole #wikipedia page dedicated to how it's absolutely crushing it. Who knew #MMORPGs were the future?!

For those who haven't witnessed anything re. information classification or the functioning of militaries or governments or other great organs of state, I refer you to the screenwriter Jonathan Lynn's words immortalised by the character Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister:

"The Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets but to protect officials"

I regret deeply I cannot remember which episode. I also refer you to Yes, Prime Minister s02e02 (dailymotion link) which illustrates something about leaks, and their investigation and prosecution. Not to mention how the #press works in promulgating these things! I really can't recommend it highly enough.

#socialMedia #memes #politics #leaks #military #journalism #war #democracy #totalitarianism #law #secrets #bureaucracy

(boosts are most welcome, as I suspect most folks give little thought to such things beyond snap-judgements of 'right' or 'wrong')