NSA + GCHQ in Second Life

[Ivor Rident]

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/world-of-warcraft-nsa-und-gchq-ueberwachten-online-spiele-a-938014.html

[Orca Flotta]

Jo, das erregt die Gemueter der Weltpresse, sogar Orcablog hat schon ne Story darueber gemacht. :smileytongue:

[Maxine Haystack]

This is the link to the Guardian article

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life

Quotes from the article:

"Real-life agents have been deployed into virtual realms, from those Orc hordes in World of Warcraft to the human avatars of Second Life. There were attempts, too, to recruit potential informants from the games' tech-friendly users."

"Meanwhile, the FBI, CIA, and the Defense Humint Service were all running human intelligence operations – undercover agents – within Second Life. In fact, so crowded were the virtual worlds with staff from the different agencies, that there was a need to try to "deconflict" their efforts – or, in other words, to make sure each agency wasn't just duplicating what the others were doing."

Promise i'm not an agent Scary though

[Monti Messmer]

Ne echt ?

Regt sich da noch jemand auf nachdem bekannt ist, dass die Handys, emails, messenger abhoeren ?!?

Gerade in der riesigen Welt der Online-Games sollten sie da eine Ausnahme machen, wohl eher nicht.

Google, FB, MS, Apple ... haben Mio $ bekommen und Backdoors fuer die Abhoerdienste zu oeffnen.

Monti

[Kyloo1488313263]

The ACLU put out something on this as well, check out THIS ARTICLE

LL needs to come out and say something on this, especially when Secondlife is being mentioned by name.  The game spying is so severe that special teams are being set up to keep these agent provocateurs from stumbling over each other!  Just read this quote:

"The spies pose as fellow gamers in order to collect intelligence, including communications content and geolocation information; identify players' online social networks; and even recruit informants. So many U.S. intelligence agents participate in this surveillance effort that the intelligence community had to establish teams of referees called "deconfliction" groups, who help to prevent spies from clashing with each other in these fantasy worlds."

Come on LL, wake up and endorse the USA Freedom Act the same way Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and DOZENS of others have!

[Monti Messmer]

First of all, this is a german forum so please use this language, thanks.

Wer wirklich glaubt seine Daten bei FB seien sicher der sollte mal aufwachen.

Die grosse Diskussion im Moment hier im SL Forum, dass alle hochgeladenen "Dinge" LL gehoeren hat bei FB nie statt gefunden. Dort sind alle Posts, Bilder ... automatisch Mister Z´s Eigentum. Er koennte Profile an Single-Boersen verkaufen mit Foto und das wars.

Nicht vergessen, womit verdient FB Geld ? Der Reichtum kommt nicht von Naechstenliebe mit dem Betreiben einer Social Plattform sondern von schlichtem Handel mit Userdaten.

Im Internet gibt es keine Privatsphaere - ende punkt aus

Monti