  world/spies-dragnet-reaches-a-playi ng-field-of-elves-and-trolls.html > 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. > at menwith hill, a royal air force base in the yorkshire countryside that the n.s.a. has long used as an outpost to intercept global communications, american and british intelligence operatives started an effort in 2008 to begin collecting data from world of warcraft.   azzikostas#:~:text=hazzikostas%20jo ined%20blizzard%20entertainment%20i n,world%20of%20warcraft%20achieveme nt%20system. > hazzikostas joined blizzard entertainment in the summer of 2008 as a game designer, and his responsibilities have included raid boss design and implementation, class design and balancing, and maintaining the world of warcraft achievement system. so the nsa etc. begin infiltrating wow in 2008. former cia lawyer ion joins wow in 2008. really makes you think.
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