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Friday, December 20, 2013

Cartoons: the NSA online

With recent news of the NSA spying on World of Warcraft and Secondlife, you'd think online gamers would be more upset.  Maybe they're too intent on gaming.  Then there's rule no.1:  Nobody is who they say they are online.  Getting to know other players may reveal a real person, but continually fighting MOBs doesn't reveal much.  There's some humor to be found in the whole situation, too.
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image: cartoon by Drew Sheneman, "NSA Spying on Gamers"
Drew Sheneman, USNews
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image: meme by Pauly D, "dude!! the nsa pays you..?"
Pauly D, Memegenerator
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image: cartoon published at ActionTrip.com, "Operation Spycraft"
"Operation Spycraft," actiontrip.com
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By the way, a n00b is "A inexperienced and/or ignorant or unskilled person. Especially used in computer games."  And what about the result of gathering all this information?
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image: cartoon by Patrick Chappatte "Huge Data Collection By NSA"
Patrick Chappatte, "Huge Data Collection By NSA," Cagle
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While I was looking for these cartoons, I came across the NSA's site for kids.  In its Google listing it advertises, "How to make your own secret codes, games and activities from the National Security Agency for America's future codemakers and codebreakers." Looks like they're recruiting people early.

-- Marge

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