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Forgot the link:

http://gawker.com/nsa-and-cia-spied-on-world-of-warcraft-other-online-vi-1479458437

>>853178

Why would I click on a Gawker link? Why did you post one without archiving it? Were you even here in 2014? Also, this thread would belong better in either >>>/v/ or >>>/pol/

>inb4 "leftypol"

No, I'm not.

If they "only" had access to chat logs it'd be just part of their creepy total information awareness. But paying people to infiltrate WoW means the NSA is way overfunded.

>multi-million dollar government contracts to study

>online persona and their real-life behavior

>younger players and male players preferring competitive, hack-and-slash activities, and older and female players preferring noncombat activities.

Wow what a surprise. This is what will give burgerland an edge in WW3.

Fuck off

>>853178

>Gawker

Fuck right off.

>>853176 (OP)

> Be alphabet agency employee

> Bored as fuck all day

> Start playing MMORPG grinding shit because even that is more interesting than your job

> Afraid of being caught by your boss

> Come up with an idea

< We should monitor online game activities

> TFW gets to play video games all day and get actually paid for it

>>853194

our foolish enemies have been putting their old females on the front lines of battle for thousands of years. we now have the tactical advantage

This is not technology.

This is technology

Isn't this because terrorists used WoW as means of communication?

>>853194

There's actually a plausible reason for this, and it's not entirely surveillance. Specifically, it's widely speculated that venues like MMOs are being used by mobsters, terrorists, and spies to recruit, communicate, and launder money:

https://www.panopticonlabs.com/from-the-mob-to-mario-how-money-laundering-lives-on-through-video-games/

https://singularityhub.com/2011/08/24/al-qaeda-in-azeroth-terrorism-recruiting-and-training-in-virtual-worlds/

>>853319

whats the point of faking a car bomb?

>>853309

As a teenager I played WoW with some people for a while who were pretty blunt about engaging in organized crime. It wasn't a troll or joke, they were just blunt about it. They knew my general area and there were lot of allusions to the fact that if I needed anything I could come ask them. One time they directly said they were able to help me get a new computer or something when I had problems with mine. The main guy in this WoW group ended up dying in a shootout after trying to drive away from police in his car. They were pretty fun to play with, I still remember a long BRD run we had. They were constantly handing out good shit to everyone which looking back I think was probably RMT'd with murder money

>>853383

A million reasons, are you retarded?

>>853176 (OP)

I thought this was known

packets only have their header encrypted (with RC4), even though you could use it for the data section as well (for example, the actual chat messages)

>>853178

>gagger

gtfo you piece of shit

sounds like some CIA slackers wanted to play WoW at work and found a way to make it happen.

>there are agents who got payed with taxpayer money to play WoW

<h-healthcare is a waste of money and COMMUNISM

Some days are stupid; every day there are stupids.

>>853194

it makes me think of if any of the role playing stuff I did was with a fed...the chances are pretty high...i'd say if you spend a solid week in org, you probably passed by about 15 feds

Imagine for a second that these agents were probably expensing out payments to gold farmers so they could get pre-roided out characters and equipment. How can gaymers even compete?

>>853194

Those contracts were a cover up and whole terror talk about encrypted chat on games is baloney

Long story short, Lockheed Martin probably found out that NSA and CIA had done phishing and hacking operations on WoW accounts for purpose of destroying its popularity.

Let's be real, wherever there is money CIA/NSA comes with "muh terrorism", the public (left or right wing) eats it up like cheesecake and they export heroin from Afghanistan on big delivery airplanes on broad daylight. That is why in 2001 there was a huge shortage of heroin supply around the world. Same with internet hackers. Most of them are government agencies doing it pretty tactically sloppy for purpose of hiding the real intentions

>>853178

For fuck's sake, if you're going to complain about the site, archive it you lazy fucks.

It takes just as much effort as your useless comment.

https://archive.fo/X6QFJ

Some of them work fulltime snooping in guilds since chats can be used as comms. If any, all voice stuff going on in the gaming scene are pressumed to be intercepted by them. Enjoy your freedom.

>>853924

I believe it. i didnt even play lich king, BC was getting SO dumb. I thoroughly believe that only %1-2% of players were actually totally finished with vanilla. then theres that whole debate about how vanilla is the best.

thats not why i started this thread.

>>853176 (OP) >>853874 lol samefag