World of Jewcraft: Spooks Spied on Online Gamers

Daily Stormer
December 10, 2013

While each big new revelation from the Snowden documents seems more disturbing than the last, we are also being informed about many operations that are simply idiotic.

The latest such thing is the plot to spy on World of Warcraft, to ensure that terrorists are not using the chat function to plan attacks.

From the New York Times:

Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents.

Fearing that terrorist or criminal networks could use the games to communicate secretly, move money or plot attacks, the documents show, intelligence operatives have entered terrain populated by digital avatars that include elves, gnomes and supermodels.

The spies have created make-believe characters to snoop and to try to recruit informers, while also collecting data and contents of communications between players, according to the documents, disclosed by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden. Because militants often rely on features common to video games — fake identities, voice and text chats, a way to conduct financial transactions — American and British intelligence agencies worried that they might be operating there, according to the papers.