NSA, GCHQ Caught Spying on Online Games

[Guest]

If you thought you could evade the National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) by slipping into an online multiplayer game, think again: Both agencies have infiltrated "World of Warcraft"

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[jimmysmitty]

I knew the horde was a bunch of terrorists. Planning to attack the alliance.

Never could trust a Orc....

 

[dgingeri]

This is funny, since in WoW you could just go off to some out of the way place and just use say or join a channel, or even just use whispers to have a secure conversation. WoW traffic is encrypted to keep people from hacking the game. (Back in the early days, there was some sort of hack that gave rogues permanent sprint and 100% crit by hacking the traffic stream. Blizzard started encrypting the traffic at that point.) Spies within WoW would be almost useless.

 

[newbie_mcnoob]

Nice to know my tax dollars are getting spent paying for the employees of those agencies to play games all day.

 

[SoiledBottom]

My next character is gonna be a NSA Elf Hunter Rogue

 

[quilciri]

This is my surprised face :|

WTB - gif of an orc in fedora/trenchcoat/sunglasses.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

That's it. I'm changing my Halo name to Ed Snowden.

 

[jasonpwns]

Sounds like someone in the NSA found an excuse that allowed him to play his favorite game all day.

 

[f-14]

man i wish my previous pc's hdd hadn't crashed, they said they were going to do this back in 2003 right before they invaded iraq. wouldn't surprise me if the nsa had been doing this since 1995 when clinton enacted all the backdoor policy laws at the request of mr 'i invented the internet' VPOTUS Gore senate president right before the big GPS and DMCA push.

 

[Anastopholies]

I want this job.. "I think there might be something fishy here so I'm going on this raid. I get paid overtime right?" ;D

 

[pacioli]

I wonder how many rogues were created today with the name Nsaspy...

 

[softfish]

Oh crap, i guess i'm a target now. After putting c4 on my buggy in Battlefield and yelling Allah Akbar before ramming it into a tank..

 

[internetlad]

"The warheads are prepped and ready for delivery, here is our agent's Friend Code, trade him a clefairy in Pokemon Y to let him know the deal is on."

 

[knowom]

corrected

"Blizzard didn't give permission for the NSA to spy on it's bots"

 

[southernshark]

I knew that NE chick who wanted to Cyber in the deeprun tram was a spy.

 

[clonazepam]

You are all welcome to come join me on Everquest lol... looking for a few good monks, wizards, mages, paladins, rangers, shamans, enchanters, and berserkers!

Yes, EQ1 because the community is much more mature.