NSA Spied on Gamers
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World of Spycraft: NSA and CIA Spied in Online GamesNot limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents.
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The NSA and Other Government Snoops Have Been Spying on Online GamersFor the last several years, American and British intelligence agencies have been conducting surveillance operations inside of online video game worlds Second Life and World of Warcraft, as well as Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming service, according to a report in The New York Times, ProPublica, and The Guardian. The operations, which neither British spies nor the NSA would confirm, stemmed from fears amongst the spy agencies that the games would be used by terrorists for communications and financial transactions.
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Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agenciesNSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life. To the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their current surveillance efforts were lacking something. The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough. What it really needed was a horde of undercover Orcs.
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April 23rd, 2024