PLAYING WITH SPIES*

Spies are playing spy vs. spy within computer games such as World of Warcraft. I have a reprehensible sense of humor and an immediate desire to sign up for World of Warcraft. It is SO nice of the NY Times, the Guardian, and Snowden to bring gamers such a challenging Holiday present.

Seriously, I have known for YEARS that it is possible for groups of gamers to have private voice communications within games. I have not talked about it because I did not want to give out "information to the enemy". (But what a COOL job to play games for your country. Almost as cool a job as game testing,)

* Before you all start your own games within games by pretending to be spies, please keep in mind that real spies, like real cops, do NOT have much of a sense of humor about this kind of game. Conspiracy laws within the US are bad enough, but in some countries they will not even listen to your excuse that you were just playing a game.

Real life is NOT a game or a movie. We just lost a beloved movie star who treated real life as if it were a street racing movie. BE PREPARED TO LOSE YOUR LIFE OR YOUR FREEDOM IF YOU PRETEND TO BE A REAL LIFE SPY.