on December 9, 2013 in World News
NSA, GCHQ ‘planted agents’ into World of Warcraft
NSA, GCHQ ‘planted agents’ into World of Warcraft, Second Life to spy on gamers The NSA and the UK’s GCHQ spying agencies have collected players’ charts and deployed real-life agents into online World of Warcraft and Second Life games, a new leak by whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed. An NSA document from 2008, titled “Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments,” was published Monday by The Guardian in partnership with The New York Times and ProPublica. In the report, the agency warned of the risk of leaving games communities under-monitored and described them as a “target-rich communications network” where… View Article
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