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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

"I work on vendor lock-in, Congressional district contractor allocation, and remote killswitches"

[–] Balldowern@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

While this is funny, the entire honeypot issue can be avoided if the state sanctioned 1 girlfriend for every guy.

[–] holo@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

No trust me bro, the government deciding on romantic partners and matches is totally not something ripped straight from a mid-tier dystopian novel.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Actually ripped from the German playbook circa 1940.

The SS were given a state sanctioned wife for the purpose of producing as many “Aryan” children as possible.

[–] mofongo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

Plus, a good chunk of men would cheat with a young, attractive woman paying them attention.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

You think wet men aren't tempted by strange?

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

When arms manufacturers hear that their weapons were used in mass tragedies are they proud their weapons performed well? Do they wish their products would fail more? Or is it all just business?

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Living in an area where a lot of these company's exist and develop this shot, many of them are proud of the way they perform.

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Collateral damage

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t works in the industry myself but have some insight. ‘Performed as designed’ is a key phrase. The customer, typically the US government, presents a use case and a solution is designed to meet their specs.

It’s oddly mundane and a lot of well engineered shit never gets used.

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Cold blooded.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Mass tragedies just means more future customers, for when they want to atrocity back.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If you work for these companies you're a bad person.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 hours ago

On pacifist grounds?

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I swear this whole "defence engineers get honeypotted" thing is just a recruiting ploy. I have been cheated out of my rightful duplicitous russian waifu

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Russia lost it supply of honeypot waifus 30 years ago, I'm afraid

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

They ended up on a certain island

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 7 points 20 hours ago

nah it’s real and multiple idiot americans have been charged over it

us contractors in china, russia and in the states

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, OP better prepare for some fanboying.

Except, we can't ask too much, or we're literally a less sexually appealing version of this meme.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Because if my preferred side doesn't, worse people will. (Although for all we know OP is Chinese or Russian)

If that sounds like a slippery slope, sure, it definitely could be. It doesn't really seem like is Canada sliding into evil empire any time soon, though. And, when it does get to that point, they usually de-emphasise the idea of just war in favour of some version "patriotism", anyway.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Buy her some flowers while on a date. If she carries them stems pointing up, then boy, you're about to make hella rubles

[–] python@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Okay but like, being a honeypot girl must be really hard because you kinda have to care about a topic to retain information about it. My husband started working with military ships or something like that and whenever he tells me ship facts (that are publicly available, he always cross-references Wikipedia) my eyes just fucking glaze over and I zone out because I have no interest in anything ship-related.

So Lockheed Martin girl must have a special interest in airplanes. It must be so hard to fight the autistic urge to correct a guy who gets his airplane facts wrong.

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

She don't have to. Record it via hidden mic, and it's just an art of asking correctly. Like "Oh I remember something about F35. My professor told and that's why it's worse than..."

Obviously you need to know the subject a bit but mainly you need to know the cognitive tricks.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Ah, good old Cunningham's law.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's how you solicit leaks on War Thunder.

Nah, you just have to make random nerfs to the equipment you're interested in and claim it's to maintain realism.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

If someone's paying me a shitload of money for getting information I'll be interested in whatever they want.

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[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 130 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She should just get on the War Thunder forums.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First, we need the F35 on the game, then we need russian players paying the devs to nerf it until any il-2 can take down the F35, which will prompt an enraged player to leak classified info on the plane just to prove his point about a minimal stat change.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm actually like 60% sure the reason War Thunder doesn't have an F-35 in the game is to prevent leaks.

[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Realistically though china stole everything they needed years ago. The J-35 is an absolute pisstake ripoff.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's really, really hard to say from just the airframe.

Now that the USSR is gone, and the files public, we know that the "Concordsky" was totally independently developed from the Concord, and completely different except on the outside.

If they did manage to copy the whole thing, that's very bad news in any war with the West, because we're not about beat them on quantity of anything.

I mean, they weren't exactly subtle about it

[–] OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

She's angling to be my handler while I'm just angling to handle her.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago

I believe that is how honeypots work, yes.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Provide false and misleading information, enjoy some honey, profit.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Presumably they know enough about the topic to be able to tell when you're talking BS and then they'll realize you're not a useful information source, and leave.

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

russia isn’t bothering with dod when they can just get it from the top

ai scientists is where it’s at now

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And with top you mean war thunder forums

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[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Her favorite word is "passport."

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[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

If anything she would angle for a straight simple relationship. Get his trust and and have a lot of texting emailing going on. Then send him an email at work with a back door. Hopefully a funny one or interesting one so he shares it.

Then she/they have access to the computer network and data base. If they were smart the target would be in either IT or management so they have more access rights.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They arm NASA don't they? Do you know any cosmonauts?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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