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you wanted to find there terrorists: intelligence, users of online games “Second Life” and “World of Warcraft” spied showing new Snowden revelations. At times, so many agents were on Daddeln that there was a curious problem.
It is one of the hitherto obscure revelations from the NSA archive the whistleblower Edward Snowden : How the Guardian , the New York Times and Investigativportal ProPublica report citing documents from Snowden, Western intelligence agencies have the popular online computer games World of Warcraft, Second Life, Microsoft’s Xbox Live network and other infiltrated.
Eventually there were so many spies on Daddeln that they were almost at the virtual feet. To keep them away from each other, the NSA set up a separate “conflict defusing group” so that the agents of the CIA, FBI and Department of Defense did not come in the way.
services hoped there to track down terrorists and members of organized crime. This hope was disappointed. The gambling spies were able to record any success in the anti-terror fight, according to the documents. Members of Islamist extremist groups or suspects with links to trafficking in weapons or nuclear technology to the games have made use of, but the documents do not indicate that they did illegal.
World of Warcraft and Second Life are played by millions of people. They are online communities, is used for communication and traded. In World of Warcraft, players take on the role of elves, gnomes, orcs and other fantasy creatures. Second Life gives them the opportunity to lead a supposedly better life – for example, as a supermodel or athlete. The agent is created virtual identities. They tried to recruit sources and recorded on communication between players. The spies promised also profile images, spatial data and an overview of the “friends lists” of suspects.
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games would indeed appear harmless but are potentially “communication networks rich in targets” – so potential terrorists, according to an NSA document. Because some target persons would have received news from the networks of the games in their e-mail inboxes, the services interested sometime for in-game communication.
According to the services the games have several features that could attract criminals: Avatars, which are the virtual identities of the players, behind which one can hide; Chats and communication via headsets, and financial transactions in which moves virtual currencies and then can be paid in real currency.
is unclear how exactly the services procured access to communication and how many players are involved. Blizzard Entertainment – the company that makes World of Warcraft – told journalists that she had neither the NSA nor the British GCHQ listening service provides access to player data .
The Pentagon is interested in since at least 2006 games. The Department of Defense should even have been involved in the development of mobile games for non-US companies that New York Times reported, citing insiders. After suspects had this downloaded, so the idea of ??the military, they should gather data for U.S. intelligence. The name of the game maker does not name the newspaper.
Microsoft declined to comment on the revelation. The company produces the Xbox game console, which also features game worlds to have been infiltrated. GCHQ and NSA have not been denied the new reports.
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