Spy Games: NSA and CIA Allegedly Tried to Recruit World of Warcraft and Second Life Players

The Internet is vast in ways no country’s clandestine security apparatuses could have anticipated: there’s simply no way to police it all. But that hasn’t stopped the NSA and CIA from poking around in interactive entertainment back corners and alleyways, trawling games like World of Warcraft and Second Life for cyber-ne’er-do-wells, according to a new report jointly published by the New York Times, the Guardian and ProPublica. In a report titled “World of Spycraft: NSA and CIA Spied in...