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[ChorizoPicozo]

you had a partnership with Atomic Heart..

 

[Husky]

God that sounds like a fun job.

 

[phil_t98]

imagine they try to get intelligence from the lobby on Cod, they will find out everybody's been with everybody's else's MOM last night and that you now have 2 Dads

 

[3liteDragon]

“This acquisition must pass to fight against Russia”

 

[BattleScar]

I've been called Cyka Blyat too many times to give a shit about this.

 

[Duchess]

penetrate​

 

[The Alien]

Meabwhile Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook....any American or European company bends over backwards to sell its soul to for mere access to the Chinese market.

 

[DragoonKain]

Putin’s gonna be looking at some of the crazy discourse that goes on in gaming circles like Cyberpunk, Hogwarts, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and be like this shit is too crazy even for me.

 

[winjer]

 

[SSfox]

Microsoft should leave gaming and go work on Politics they seems too passionate about

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Well, we should be happy at least... it's the only penetration happening in gaming communities these days.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Presently, US companies are their own worst enemy when it comes to all of the progressive stuff creeping into gaming and media at large, thanks to some of the weirdos being hired into executive roles to fill quotas.
Maybe they are, but the last thing on my mind is Russia intelligence.

Russian agent right here.

 

[mortal]

Russian agent right here.

 

[ReBurn]

Spies pass data through lots of channels you wouldn't expect. What you thought was Bobby threatening to bone your mom was actually Vladimir passing nuclear secrets to Alexsi....

 

[kingyala]

and people will actually buy this stuff... this is exactly why i stopped watching news... phil spencer's and jim ryan's propaganda is enough for me..

 

[Rush2112]

In war, propaganda goes both ways.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Russian intelligence never penetrates me

 

[Unknown Soldier]

At least he didn't try to claim he noticed them all on PlayStation but none on Xbox. You know he was itching to try that statement out and see what happens

 

[Cre8]

It's me. Hi. I'm the Russian. It's me.

Hi there comrades. I mean bros. Isn’t it cool how freedom we are here. I mean, Hogwarts is dope as shit.

Russian agent right here.

Remember "No Russian"

 

[mansoor1980]

At least he didn't try to claim he noticed them all on PlayStation but none on Xbox. You know he was itching to try that statement out and see what happens

but he already made a reference to that

80 percent remember?

 

[Unknown?]

The president of Microsoft has claimed that his company has identified Russian intelligence and military groups trying to spread information via games communities.

During an on-stage interview at Semafor's World Economy Summit, Brad Smith was asked about the recent leak of Pentagon documents on a games-centric Discord server, and whether there are leaks and security issues in the gaming world that worry him.

"Well, I'll put gaming in the right context for this. It's not like playing Call of Duty is going to lead to deaths in the real world – I mean, these are video games," he said. "What people are talking about is, around games you have a community of gamers that come together, they talk to each other, including when they're playing a game.

"For the last several months, our digital threat analysis team has been identifying efforts by the Russians to basically penetrate gaming communities… And we've been advising governments about this. It's [Russian private military corporation] The Wagner Group, it's Russian intelligence, and they're using this as a place to get information into circulation.

"That's what happened here. It included the Discord channel around Minecraft, it included others of these [communities]."

Smith added that he believes this is "not the No.1 thing we should worry about" because such groups "are gonna publish information somewhere."

"It just happens [games communities are] a good place for them to get the information into circulation, and ultimately journalists find it," he said.

The leaked Pentagon documents reportedly revealed information regarding the Ukraine war, and the current suspect is believed to be a young gun enthusiast who was part of a games group on Discord.

Microsoft president claims Russian intelligence is trying to "penetrate gaming communities"

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The president of Microsoft has claimed tha…

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Since Microsoft is affiliated with(and arguably an arm of[they participated in Prism]) the intelligence agencies, I don't trust anything they have to say regarding this.

 

[bitbydeath]

Jokes on them, gamers don’t listen to anyone.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

It's only good if done by American companies and agencies.

 

[FearlessBelgian]

Maybe russians are the cause of the downfall of redfall...

 

[jshaver488]

Lol. Can’t be any worse than US intelligence agencies that are in bed with big tech. Look up Jessica Ashooh and Reddit. Or even ghislaine maxwell and Reddit

 

[Fret Runner]

We are fine here. Just lock everyone who posts in the UFO thread into that thread to contain them. If I was a Russian psyopper, that thread would be a goldmine for easy marks.

I kid I kid. You UFO nutters are cool and that thread is a fun occasional read.

 

[FBeeEye]

This is nothing new. They've been infiltrating for a while now. They're even here on NeoGaf.

Let me guess, anyone who doesn't stroke Zelensky's mangina is a suspected Soviet on NeoGAF?

 

[AnotherOne]

They are trying to get us to play Redfall. Not gonna work.

You mean Atomic Heart?

 

[Dick Jones]

Brad, damn it. You were meant to use pie charts to explain the info. I can't keep up with your facts now.

 

[Magic Carpet]

bluecowboys footlong gonna get ya.

 

[delirium trigger]

Let me guess, anyone who doesn't stroke Zelensky's mangina is a suspected Soviet on NeoGAF?

Anyone that dares question reports from biased Ukranian sources is obviously rooting for the other guys.

 

[Buki1]

You can play as Russians in their quest for world domination and shoot Americans in Battlefield 2042, I doubt some trolls on Minecraft discord could throw better pro russian campaing than EA.

 

[Solidus_T]

This charge by Smith is absurd. Might Russian intelligence be trying to recruit some gamers? Maybe, but the US has been doing this to a much larger degree.
The publisher that his company is trying to acquire has already been thoroughly "penetrated" by US intelligence! Call of Duty, though played by millions, is the constant target of ridicule by a large part of its player base for its obvious attempts at propagandizing the writing, resorting to historical revisionism, 1-dimentional demonization of any non NATO country, etc. Notably, Microsoft has already had multiple contracts with the Pentagon.
Smith's accusations are hypocritical at best and an open attempt to whip up fear of Russian people.

 

[NickFire]

Jokes aside, doesn’t today‘s news kind of lend a bit of credibility to the claim? I mean, if a young man was stupid enough to basically brag about access and share docs, why wouldn’t it be plausible that another country would try tricking another person to do the same?

 

[Goalus]

"For the last several months, our digital threat analysis team has been identifying efforts by the Russians to basically penetrate gaming communities… And we've been advising governments about this."

It's good to hear that MS is monitoring these activities. I feel extra-safe now being on Xbox Live, knowing that MS will protect me no matter the cost.

 

[Supple]

Let me guess, anyone who doesn't stroke Zelensky's mangina is a suspected Soviet on NeoGAF?

Russian agent right here.

 

[lh032]

Jimbo is their black widow.

 

[Bridges]

lewd.

Isn't Genshin Impact on Xbox?

It is not, actually.

 

[Ozriel]

Jokes aside, doesn’t today‘s news kind of lend a bit of credibility to the claim? I mean, if a young man was stupid enough to basically brag about access and share docs, why wouldn’t it be plausible that another country would try tricking another person to do the same?

Not just today’s news. There has been multiple leaks on War Thunder forums, for example.

It’s not just Russia, of course. in 2013, Snowden leaked the info that the NSA, CIA, FBI and western intelligence agencies were spying in MMORPGs.

https://www.businessinsider.com/spy...-nsa-gchq-world-of-warcraft-2013-12?r=US&IR=T

It’s hypocritical to paint it as a Russian thing, but yes, it’s 100% factual that intelligence agencies are monitoring gaming groups.

 

[Barakov]

Relevant :

 

[Tams]

So who's our FSB handler, GAF?

Should we do a poll thread to decide?

 

[Valkyria]

It certainly explains the Marxist scum on ResetEra.

You have to be this American to believe that Russia is Marxist.
It’s even funnier because gaming it’s full of American propaganda and militarism. But that it’s not gonna be spoken by the media.

 

[Flutta]

Meanwhile the current US government just wants to penetrate your children.

Everyone wants to penetrate gamers. We are fucked from all sides

Alot of penteration going on in this thread.

 

[HTK]

Nobody can out-do the U.S. propaganda machine.

 

[mdkirby]

It certainly explains the Marxist scum on ResetEra.

Not really. Tho I don’t doubt that there’s Russian agents on there. Typically tho Russia attempts to foment far right wing ideology, nationalism and isolationism with a heavy dose of trolling. As such they find much more fertile ground in anti establishment and less woke/pc communities. Neogaf, will for certain have a larger representation of ideologically centred or right wing members than resetera, and will thus be a more attractive environment for Russian influence campaigns.

Modern Russia is not Marxism , nor is the ideologies of ‘most’ us progressives. Hell the demands of most progressives in America are asking for stuff that is lesser than what we have as standard here in the uk under decades of conservative rule, and the tories definitely aren’t Marxist.

Russia presently is more akin to nazi germany in both action, function, ideology. They are a fascist dictatorship, which is not Marxism.

Anyhow, prob getting a little too political, given it’s an area we’re not supposed to divulge in, so I expect this thread to be inevitably closed down, given it actively encourages such discussion

 

[A Most Virtuous Cat]

So the same thing the US and it's allies are doing and have been doing since forever?

 

[nikolino840]

Information warfares.
That is the war that is currently happening. Expect all type of communication devices to be at the center of these wars.
From Reddit, to gaming channels, to discord. It's effective way of pushing your propaganda without financial strain.

There's a couple of ncis episodes about crimals and terrorists recluting and talking each others via videogames

 

[GymWolf]

Is this why the cortana IA in my pc call me comrade?

 

[PillsOff]

Oh no.
Shocking

What next.
Yearly game franchise bout war financed by US military?

We all should protest

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

You have to be this American to believe that Russia is Marxist.
It’s even funnier because gaming it’s full of American propaganda and militarism. But that it’s not gonna be spoken by the media.

You're missing the point.

If I'm a far-right fascist nation trying to influence another. I'm gonna push an extreme left-leaning ideology so as to make my far-right-leaning politics appear less extreme.