• johncandy1812@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    2 hours ago

    When arms manufacturers hear that their weapons were used in a 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
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 hours ago

      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.

    • BigDiction@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      3 hours ago

      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.

  • Mac@mander.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    13 hours ago

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

  • Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    35
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    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

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    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

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        51
        ·
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        There was a famous case of a Soviet spy who got caught by the FBI because of the way he carried his flowers.

        In the US, if someone buys flowers, then while walking with them, the person normally carries them with the flowers up, stems down. The ‘normal’ way.

        In Russia, to protect the flower tops from rain, snow, cold, and wind, the average person carries the bunch of flowers with the stems facing up/forward, flowers pointing down/back.

        This spy bought flowers for some reason, and an FBI agent noticed he carried them the Russian way.

        If you ever get a chance to read any of Joe Navarro’s books, he’s a very good writer. I highly recommend “3 Minutes to Midnight”

      • kalpol@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 day ago

        I think its a joke about how she signals her spy handler that she has a drop to make

  • python@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    51
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      56
      ·
      2 days ago

      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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        28
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        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
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          1 day ago

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

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            4 hours ago

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

            Now that the USSR is gone, 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.

  • baines@lemmy.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    2 days ago

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

    ai scientists is where it’s at now

  • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    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.

    • terranoid@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      33
      ·
      2 days ago

      Start ranting about sprints and how you took 25 story points last sprint and STEVE THAT LAZY BITCH only took 18, but you think on top of it the tshirt sizing of your features was too optimistic, and make her fucking dread the agile.

      But key thing is to lead her on a little bit here and there, like if she asks what you work on, just say “oh can’t talk much about it, kinda nuclear related”, so she never gets pulled off your case. And promise to tell her the intimate details and tell her one day you can send her the source code you’re helping integrate.

      Then send her bootstrap.css and go into way too much detail about how how you’re aligning buttons for the top secret application

        • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          1 day ago

          Imagine that: you’re a nation and know the enemy wants to steal your secrets by seducing your people. The best way to avoid it is to have them waste as much time as possible on fake targets. So you hire a bunch of lonely nerds who work in totally mundane fields and give them a crash course in looking like they do top secret stuff.

          I’d watch that movie.