Months of leaks from Edward Snowden reveal the NSA surveillance spans the globe, with large chunks of the Internet and virtually all telephone calls under their purview. Apparently that wasn’t quite enough.
With the post-9/11 spending frenzy leaving them with hordes of agents with apparently nothing better to do, the NSA sent them, en masse, into the World of Warcraft.
An online game that at its peak enjoyed well over 10 million subscribers worldwide, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft was dubbed an “opportunity” by NSA analysts, who figured terrorists were probably playing it too, and set a slew of agents to work playing the game on that assumption.
The NSA document claims al-Qaeda terrorist target selectors are associated with World of Warcraft, but there’s no evidence that the surveillance ever accomplished anything, and they had so many NSA players that the agency had to set up a whole group just to make sure the players weren’t wasting time spying on each other.
Blizzard issued rather a tame statement on the scandal, saying they were never informed of the surveillance and didn’t know it was going on. Players within the game took a different tack, noting that several of the characters within the game universe have been telling players for years that they believe there are “spies everywhere.” It turns out they were right.
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Errm, pardon me for looking at that URL and thinking, "phishing attempt."
Between playing video games, checking up on current and ex spouses and lovers, and monitoring the porn viewing habits of potential blackmail targets, it's no wonder the NSA has not had time to find any actual terrorists.
Now we're paying these parasites to play games, just how does one get a job in the NSA?
The US has won the war on terror courtesy of the NSA. Now the terrorist has resort to playing "World of Warcraft" instead of blowing up buildings and making the world less safer. Now we Americans can have a good night sleep.
Wasn't secretly communicating via internet gaming in a movie plot?
I play World of Warcraft and I have come across many "players" who seem to have upper-level characters and absolutely no clue how to do things any real player should have learned at level 1. Other times I come across fully geared and equipped characters who have no idea how to play whatever class they are even at max level. One has to wonder if these are simply newcomers who bought their already maxed characters on ebay, or if there is something a little more sinister to them than meets the eye.
On the other hand, it may be NSA types who keep going the tired old troll posts in chat, like these:
"Why is Arthas' horse named Invincible when you can clearly see it?!?" or
"Why do they call it an XBox360? Because when you see one you do a 360 and walk away!"
and so on….
The object being to elicit a response so a nonsensical 'argument' can be constructed.
However, the newest and most effective troll post is ….. you guessed it:
"I LOVE OBAMACARE!!!" which is guaranteed to bring insults and howls of derision on the player making the statement.
ANYWAY… as if it needs to be said, World of Warcraft is a poor choice of venue to look for terrorists.