Oh Good
We’re paying billions a year to spy on 10 year olds
I’ll tell my kid to watch what himself online, the Big Bad “American” government is monitoring him
It may sound ridiculous, but online games DO offer a form of back-channel communication for the less-reputable types.
There was a criminal case a couple of years ago where a couple of folks working for the Mexican Cartels were using Xbox’s game voicechat feature to arrange for contract killings.
If there’s a reason to monitor all of the email and the skype conversations out there, then the same reason would apply to text and voice communication inside computer games. Or at least that’s what I’d tell my boss if I wanted authorization to play games all day at work.
Naw, nothing so serious. I think the geeks in government just figured out a way to goof off at work and their bosses are buying it.
Boss: "Are you playing World of Warcraft at work?"
Employee: "Uh, no sir! I'm looking for terrorists!"
Boss: "Oh, okay. Carry on."
Next the NSA (given the small chance they are not already) will infiltrate the porn industry. Porn films. They will CLOSELY monitor porn movies. Massage parlors that give “extra”.
In no time at all, their will be NSA porn stars, prostitutes and pimps. And a vast crowd of NSA personnel posing as “Johns” in case terrorists also happen to be “patronizing” the brothels and hookers.
And a whole NSA Division full time watching porn online in case terrorists become porn stars and start passing secret messages, like “Oh yes! Yes! Oh God, yes! More!”
The NSA does not anticipate problems in attracting recruits for their new “Terrorists Under Covers” Division. And even expects the Division’s “Street and Brothel Squads” to turn a tidy profit.