L'espionnage infiltre les jeux vidéos en ligne

Nouvelles révélations d'Edward Snowden. Les services de surveillance craignent que des jeux comme World of Warcraft puissent être utilisés pour échanger de l'argent ou des renseignements. L'utilisateur régulier peut se demander ce qui reste de la sa vie privée...

 "Fearing that terrorist or criminal networks could use the games to communicate secretly, move money or plot attacks, the documents show, intelligence operatives have entered terrain populated by digital avatars that include elves, gnomes and supermodels.

The spies have created make-believe characters to snoop and to try to recruit informers, while also collecting data and contents of communications between players, according to the documents, disclosed by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden. Because militants often rely on features common to video games — fake identities, voice and text chats, a way to conduct financial transactions — American and British intelligence agencies worried that they might be operating there, according to the papers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/spies-dragnet-reaches-a-playing-field-of-elves-and-trolls.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131210