Spy Agencies Spied On Online Gamers, NSA Documents Show

Spy Agencies In Covert Push To Infiltrate Virtual World Of Online Gaming -- The Guardian

NSA 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.

That vision of spycraft sparked a concerted drive by the NSA and its UK sister agency GCHQ to infiltrate the massive communities playing online games, according to secret documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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WNU Editor: The NSA document can be read here.