Nerd News: NSA & GCHQ so BM

"NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life"  ~http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life

NSA document [PDF], written in 2008 and titled Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/dec/09/nsa-files-games-virtual-environments-paper-pdf

The Guardian broke this story along with NYT & ProPublica:

• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/spies-dragnet-reaches-a-playing-field-of-elves-and-trolls.html
• http://www.propublica.org/article/world-of-spycraft-intelligence-agencies-spied-in-online-games