{"id":699,"date":"2013-12-12T18:07:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T18:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=699"},"modified":"2013-12-12T18:07:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T18:07:39","slug":"nsas-virtual-waste-of-time-spying-in-world-of-warcraft-is-harder-than-you-think-nbc-news-com-12-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2013\/12\/12\/nsas-virtual-waste-of-time-spying-in-world-of-warcraft-is-harder-than-you-think-nbc-news-com-12-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA&#8217;s virtual waste of time? Spying in &#8216;World of Warcraft&#8217; is harder than you think &#8211; NBC News.com, 12 December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project and Online Media Legal Network for Harvard&#8217;s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, pointed to gold farming, a practice by which MMO players \u2014 often in developing countries \u2014 spend hours harvesting in-game virtual currency to sell through a secondary online market to wealthier players who&#8217;d rather not spend the time, as an example of such a potentially elicit activity.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/technology\/nsas-virtual-waste-time-spying-world-warcraft-harder-you-think-2D11724106?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=cff7410b99-News_Law_Thursday_December_12_2013_12_12_2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_856982f9c6-cff7410b99-259577617\">NSA&#8217;s virtual waste of time? Spying in &#8216;World of Warcraft&#8217; is harder than you think &#8211; NBC News.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project and Online Media Legal Network for Harvard&#8217;s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, pointed to gold farming, a practice by which MMO players \u2014 often in developing countries \u2014 spend hours &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2013\/12\/12\/nsas-virtual-waste-of-time-spying-in-world-of-warcraft-is-harder-than-you-think-nbc-news-com-12-december-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}