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That night elf you defeated in World of Warcraft may have been an NSA spy. Really

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The latest leaks from Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency even infiltrated and monitored online game networks in their pursuit of potential terrorists. And so many agents were involved in playing, they had to set up a system to keep from spying on each other.

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