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> Seriously... The NSA makes military spending look frugal!

That isn't something you can decide by waving your hands at games. WoW is cheap compared to even simple things purchased by the military on a regular basis.

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A WoW subscription maybe, but the computing power to analyze character actions to extract meaning (such as the jumping example above) and the people come up with that idea is not cheap.

WoW might be cheap but a signal intelligence team to monitor a video game isn't.

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