Article by Matt S.
That title is not a euphemism. According to The Guardian, the NSA really has been infiltrating games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life (digression: I think perhaps the only people still playing Second Life are NSA agents).
Why are they doing this? Why, they're terribly frightened that that pointy-eared elf over there is actually planning a terrorist attack or something. Apparently there were attempts, too, to recruit potential informants from the games' tech-friendly users. Because running amok with hairy panda men is clearly the best way to recruit a legion of digital counter-terrorists.
That title is not a euphemism. According to The Guardian, the NSA really has been infiltrating games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life (digression: I think perhaps the only people still playing Second Life are NSA agents).
Why are they doing this? Why, they're terribly frightened that that pointy-eared elf over there is actually planning a terrorist attack or something. Apparently there were attempts, too, to recruit potential informants from the games' tech-friendly users. Because running amok with hairy panda men is clearly the best way to recruit a legion of digital counter-terrorists.
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