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World of Spycraft: Nsa and CIA Spied in Online Games


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Visitors play "World of Warcraft" at an exhibition stand during the Gamescom 2012 fair in Cologne, Germany.

Credit: Ina Fassbender/Reuters

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.

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