It's No Longer A Question Of If Or Why

Spy agencies in covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online gaming

This morning The Guardian published an article, linked above, that details attempts by the NSA and the GCHQ, a British intelligence agency, to covertly monitor communications inside various online video games. The monitoring included such well used online platforms as World of Warcraft, Xbox Live, and Second Life.

There gets to be a point where you start to wonder if people are doing things for a legitimate and worthwhile purpose, or if people are doing things just because they can.  I have reached that point with the NSA.  In the article, it is said that it is possible that terrorist organizations could be using online video games to communicate with eachother, but that there was no evidence that such activity was taking place.  So why would the NSA be monitoring people playing online video games?  What is the real reason?  Because they can.

If the NSA is doing things just because they can, what else are they doing?  To what extent does the NSA's monitoring of the internet go?  I believe it's no longer a question as to if the NSA is watching me, the question is what have they seen, and what have they documented me doing?