NSA spying through Angry Birds, Google Maps, leaked document

No joke. More of a success rate when you target insanely popular items. That's why WoW was targeted as it's the most popualr MMO so there's no surprise that they would target angry birds since it has over a billion downloads and gets about 250 million users a month.. yes a month.

Edit: Typical modus operandi of any hack really...You don't expect to catch many fish in a barrel but with a net in the sea Your bound to get Your fill

Well I guess I will only play on my computer off line, and will checking for services working in the background when I am not playing the game.
Now does the spying include the pay version? I do own my angry birds version.

If you read the source article, it seems to me like what's going on is that the company that makes Angry Birds is collecting "personal information" about you (which might be nothing more than your email address or Facebook name for tracking high scores) and the NSA supposedly has figured out how to get at that information.

As anyone who listens to Reality Remix knows, I am a firm proponent of personal privacy and I think that the NSA is way over the line, but stories like this are becoming utterly ridiculous. I anticipate that, before too long, the NSA will be declared omniscient, with the powers of God over the world.

They know my email address from Angry Birds or what gear my WoW paladin is wearing? Even if that was true, who cares? All of this fear-mongering is in favour of something, though I don't know what -- maybe even in favour of the NSA -- but it is getting out of hand.

It isn't even so much of "You've got nothing to hide" as it is "they know I play Angry Birds and they have my email address" -- again, who cares? That information is of absolutely no consequence, and yet it's being trotted out as yet another outrage.

Yes, it could very well be that the NSA is pushing these stories out so that they build up that sense of omniscience, or maybe they learned that high ranking members of terrorist organizations relax by playing Angry Birds and want to drive them out of the game, but I'd rather see journalistic efforts and column inches dedicated to the real outrageous invasions of privacy of our government, like monitoring all US domestic phone traffic, than silliness like this.