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The NSA is watching you via World of Warcraft
- mcphilip 13y agoThis is absurd. It's hard to imagine a scenario where a major terrorist plot is uncovered by agents infiltrating an MMO. Are all international communications channels not already subverted by the spooks assumed to be potential breeding grounds for terrorists?
- noinsight 13y agoWell, when you basically have an unlimited budget you can afford to cover all the bases without prioritizing. This is starting to sound like that.
- spindritf 13y agoGovernment agents figured out how to get paid for playing WoW.
- ccozan 13y agoNext in press: "The real life of Leeroy Jenkins"
- epaga 13y agoWe crossed the line of "real life satire" a long time ago, at this point any new revelation seems to be unnecessary: at this point, it's obvious the NSA needs a hard reboot. That there was no one who had the guts to say "Maybe we don't need to snoop around in World of Warcraft." is just amazing to me.
- randomway1234 13y agoI would LOVEEEEE to get paid by the government to play video games. Sign me up!
- NAFV_P 13y agoHave the NSA checked out Call of Duty? When I used to play it on the PS3, I swear it was filled with depraved devil worshippers who wanted to skin me alive. One guy said to a mate of mine "I would love to shit in your mouth" (I think it was in a sexual context).
- apetresc 13y agoThis article's author must be confused. There's just no chance that the NSA decides the best way to monitor WoW is to actually put people in the game and use whatever in-game tools there are for interacting with players. You're telling me the NSA can monitor Google and FB through side channels, but somehow Blizzard's Battle.net security stumps them? This is the equivalent of the NSA trying to monitor Facebook by sending friend requests to suspected terrorists and posting on their wall.