NSA Monitoring Virtual Online Games

[crb]

http://news.yahoo.com/report-nsa-spy...135520383.html

IW better be careful. They're on to him.

[Parkbandit]

http://news.yahoo.com/report-nsa-spy...135520383.html

IW better be careful. They're on to him.

What a great job though... spying on people playing WoW. Infiltrating their guild and reporting back what you find!

[AnticorRifling]

If they're just monitoring trade chat we're all going to jail.

[Keller]

What a great job though... spying on people playing WoW. Infiltrating their guild and reporting back what you find!

And you guys thought I was being emo when I gquit all the time.

I was really just hoping guilds as a super-secret NSA spy.

[Gelston]

The apparent threat was so huge that folks from the CIA, FBI and the Dept. of Defense all needed to get in on the action. The documents say that a “deconfliction” group had to be created in order to minimize agents from stepping on each other’s virtual feet in Second Life.

http://consumerist.com/2013/12/09/ns...ox-live-users/

Damn, the DoD unit that does that must have been the most skate unit ever. It is likely civilian DoD employees though.

[Latrinsorm]

That's why I only play games with firearms, because the government knows not to mess with civilians with firearms.

[Ceyrin]

That's why I only play games with firearms, because the government knows not to mess with civilians with firearms.

Especially when they can't stockpile ammunition anymore.

[Taernath]

I need just 1 more titan runestone or the terrorists win.

[Latrinsorm]

Especially when they can't stockpile ammunition anymore.

I jury rigged a Game Genie to interface with a floppy disk drive, so I get infinite ammo on the web.

[SHAFT]

When you buy gold from online sellers, you're helping the terrorists.