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The Walls Have Ears

Upcoming mass surveillance game asks if you’d really pull a Snowden

Upcoming mass surveillance game asks if you’d really pull a Snowden

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What would you do with the national security (read: espionage) apparatus at your fingertips: Would you defend civil liberties or use the reams of information collected each day to satisfy your own ends? Need to Know, the debut title from Australian developers Monomyth Games which is raising funds on
The Walls Have Ears is security theatre with a side of voyeurism

The Walls Have Ears is security theatre with a side of voyeurism

2 min read News
The Walls Have Ears is security theatre, but what isn’t? Body scanners at airports, metal detectors at sports stadia, fancy uniforms that imply nonexistent authority—it’s all a big show. The Walls Have Ears is about that show, but you’re a performer. More accurately, you’re a desk jockey at an unnam