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I can neither confirm nor deny that GIA has a spy in the NSA.

Basically this. Open Source Information (that's stuff anyone can find) can be pretty damn powerful, you just have to collate it all together and find trends.

The most likely "spy" on EVE...some bored junior enlisted intelligence analyst who plays EVE anyway. Takes notes on people in his corp who say interesting anti-american things, and hands it to his superiors.

When I was in the military, we got bombarded with "report shady dudes" notices and such. "Every Soldier A Source" and all that jazz.

On a more serious note I do think the EVE online is probably the kind of game intelligence services would actually want to look at as a way of communicating with people. What with its global servers (apart from China) it would allow people from around the world to talk to one another in a way that wouldn't be normally flagged as communications.

And before people points out the CCP is based in Iceland. I would point out that the main server is in London. Nothing is going to stop someone just leaving a maintenance line open that only they know about.

NSA is full of risk averse carebears. I say we collectively wardec and destroy them.

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I was under the understanding the NSA has more spying powers on foreign communications than domestic. That is the biggest way they sweep up U.S. communications, is by sweeping up data that goes in and out of the U.S.

The typical "spy" for, say, the NSA isn't gonna give a damn what an EVE alliance has regarding in-game stuff.

Lets say, for ***** and giggles, there's a person of interest in an alliance that the NSA/CIA wants to listen in on. It's likely going to go down like this:

Spy joins alliance, watchlists target.
Spy listens in on Ventrillo/teamspeak.
Spy records the person of interest's login/logoff times.
Spy reports this up the chain.
Spy draws as little attention to himself as possible.

Higherups then use the login/logoff patterns, along with intel gathered from other sources, to dronestrike the Person of Interest when they know he's sitting in front of the computer playing EVE.


That's the kind of info the CIA would find useful, and wouldn't expose the agent too much to gather.

Because Mossad got here first, and we told the CIA "scram, we got dibs". I think the Russians have GuildWars, the Chinese have Lineage 2, and MI6 took Ultima Online.

Why do you think MI6 banned its people from playing SL?

In theory, that i the case. It is like the CIA, which is barred by law from operating on US soil: they can get around this by monitoring anything that has an international connection. By simply having a phone, you have the capability to make international calls, and so the CIA and NSA can monitor you, even if it isn't actually an international call. And because by law they are not law enforcement bodies, it means they get around Constitutional issues 99% of the time. All this stuff about the NSA not violating the Constitution is true: they don't because there is nothing that actually prevents them in the Constitution from doing what they do.