It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users
It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users
Far-right users of X (formerly Twitter) are singling out individual Activision Blizzard employees for comments made in support of DEI and inclusion at the company.
I’m honestly surprised that Slack doesn’t have some kind of steganographic watermarking so that leaked screenshots can be traced back to the original user, given how many big companies use it for all their internal comms.
These companies can barely make the basics work on their apps, let alone all of this
Even so, they're going find this person fast. ABK staff just has to cross reference all the participants of leaked meetings
Christ I got added to this for college, such a mess of an app. Really difficult to follow what is what on it.
It's really not. Depends on how your structure it I suppose
The techniques you're thinking of are for documents sent by email or some such. You add innocuous whitespace or typos that are unique to each one, and send them individually. If one leaks, you can match it to the employee who received it. That doesn't work for screenshots of Slack.
Gee these men-children are going to be awfully sad when there's no one left to make their games for them anymore and they have nothing left to do but face the shitty reality they've created.
Um... The gaming industry did much, MUCH better before it was filled with activists.
ITT we can see hardcore gamurs that eat the shit from gamergate and gamergate 2: sweetbaby boogaloo without putting 2 and 2 together
To be fair, Sweet Baby Inc. censoring shit is a real problem, whereas the "first gamergate" was mad about Baldur's Gate having transpeople in it when according to the "real gamers"
The game takes place in the Middle Ages and they didn't have transpeople back then!
Problem
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Transpeople have existed since pre-history
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Baldur's Gate does not take place in the middle ages, but rather during modern day in an alternate dimension in a thriving multiverse
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If transpeole existing is against the original vision of the game, then explain to me why the Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity and Edwin/Edwina exist. Or did you never actually play Baldur's Gate and just wanted to be part of an outrage machine?
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gross
Hope they catch them and I hope those individuals lose their jobs.
Not good ennough. Doxxing should carry criminal charges.
I’m surprised that people feel safe to discuss those things in a Slack of a company that creates American Imperialistic propaganda. It’s a certainty that crypto-fascists are among them, no matter how progressive the companies policies are. The stuff they make attracts right wingers.
Something something hilter youth
As depressing as it is to ask, I feel I should kick off the brainstorm: Given that this personal information has been doxxed, is there anything that individuals could do to help the affected developers in any way?
Send them a check? Money always helps.
So customers are now informed? And this is a bad thing?
"This employee took screenshots of ABK wide discussions about the safety of our protected information (like name changes and visa statuses) and sent them to an an extremely racist, sexist, and transphobic individual on Twitter who has over a 100 thousand followers," they added.
Fuck off; this is doxxing and mass harassment. If you want social change go ahead but do it peacefully.
Informed of what? The next target of right wing shitheads on youtube and twitter? Use your brain.
Edit: see you're a right winger yourself. So using your brain will be difficult. Asshole.
Give us your name and address so we can be informed. That’s not a bad thing, we’ll be better informed.
Donald. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500
(Hint, we already know who works where, via LinkedIn.)
Bootlicker
Stupid take