U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft

2008-02-25 02:06:25

#1

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|6800|Nårvei

Ryan Singel wrote:
Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the Director of National Intelligence.

The Reynard project will begin by profiling online gaming behavior, then potentially move on to its ultimate goal of "automatically detecting suspicious behavior and actions in the virtual world."

Read the whole article on his blog.

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2008-02-25 02:09:56

#2

usmarine: Banned; +2,785|6752

Ya this is even close to credible. Seems like a nice marketing stunt.

2008-02-25 02:11:16

#3

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|6800|Nårvei

usmarine wrote:
Ya this is even close to credible. Seems like a nice marketing stunt.

tbh i wasn't sure to put it in DST or Everything else

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2008-02-25 02:11:47

#4

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6665|Canberra, AUS

...is this a joke?

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2008-02-25 02:13:24

#5

usmarine: Banned; +2,785|6752

Varegg wrote:
usmarine wrote:
Ya this is even close to credible. Seems like a nice marketing stunt.
tbh honest i wasn't sure to put it in DST or Everything else

There's no trucks in world of warcraft!

2008-02-25 02:20:57

#6

belldawg: Serial Jay-Walker; +52|5974|Perth, indian ocean

Bahahaha

2008-02-25 02:21:41

#7

PureFodder: Member; +225|6276

To be fair, it's not a bad idea for terrorists to use MMORPG's or other online games to communicate. It's relatively annonymous and openly talking about organising attacks etc is obviously going on all the time and would be difficult to differentiate from the actual game given some appropriate changes in nomenclature to fit it with the game.

2008-02-25 02:34:30

#8

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|6800|Nårvei

Spark wrote:
...is this a joke?

Unconfirmed if either a joke or the real deal but it sure wouldn't surprice me ...

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2008-02-25 02:36:50

#9

mtb0minime: minimember; +2,418|6645

It's nowhere near April Fools yet and already we're getting ridiculous articles like this? Oh well, it's nice to know that the U.S. eliminated all terrorism in the real world. I've probably been watching too much news or something to notice it.

2008-02-25 02:50:19

#10

FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6401|'Murka

They're trying to find Leroy Jenkins.

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2008-02-25 04:17:59

#11

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,810|6096|eXtreme to the maX

Do they have a warrant?
Here's your intrusive govt surveillance being used for evil FEOS!

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2008-02-25 04:25:17

#12

Magpie: international welder....Douchebag Dude, <3 ur mom; +257|6517|Milkystania, yurop

Kill all Wow ppl and the world will be a better place (or just put blizzard on the terrorist bad company list)

2008-02-25 10:28:35

#13

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|6726|Salt Lake City

Magpie wrote:
Kill all MMORPG ppl and the world will be a better place (or just put blizzard on the terrorist bad company list)

There, I fixed that for you.

2008-02-25 10:35:55

#14

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6611|London, England

Magpie wrote:
just put blizzard on the terrorist bad company list

Agreed

Someone add Blizzard to this list and make it official. I nominate ATG.

edit: You could argue that Blizzard is doing the world a favour by cleansing the gene pool (no, not that ausfag bf2s member) by taking WoW bitches out of society.

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2008-02-25 10:41:54

#15

specialistx2324: hahahahahhaa; +244|6679|arica harbour

Magpie wrote:
Kill all Wow ppl and the world will be a better place (or just put blizzard on the terrorist bad company list)

75% of gamers out there have played WoW. i did when it first came out and after a year, i canceled it, threw away my WoW CD. im a WoW crack addict who went cold turkey

2008-02-25 10:43:37

#16

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6611|London, England

I tried the trial version. I couldn't stand it. I might've logged up about 15 minutes of play before I got sick of it and deleted it. I don't see the appeal.

Then again, I'm the type of person who likes his CoD series/BF2/MGS/GTA/Gran Turismo/Burnout etc.. you know, man games.

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2008-02-25 11:23:18

#17

rawls2: Mr. Bigglesworth; +89|6550

PureFodder wrote:
To be fair, it's not a bad idea for terrorists to use MMORPG's or other online games to communicate. It's relatively annonymous and openly talking about organising attacks etc is obviously going on all the time and would be difficult to differentiate from the actual game given some appropriate changes in nomenclature to fit it with the game.

I ve always thought that exact same thing.

2008-02-25 13:02:18

#18

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6444|The Twilight Zone

Oh noez they will discover that marlboroman and spawn are spies.

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2008-02-25 13:03:06

#19

GunSlinger OIF II: Banned.; +1,860|6634

specialistx2324 wrote:
Magpie wrote:
Kill all Wow ppl and the world will be a better place (or just put blizzard on the terrorist bad company list)
75% of gamers out there have played WoW. i did when it first came out and after a year, i canceled it, threw away my WoW CD. im a WoW crack addict who went cold turkey

95% of statistics are made up on the spot.

2008-02-25 15:13:01

#20

Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6458

WoW can breed allot of dangerous and evil people who could turn into terrorists.

It is not a large step from virtual terrorism to real-life terrorism.

And people in WoW are showing behaviors of terrorists, see video for more details

2008-02-26 09:18:13

#21

XanKrieger: iLurk; +60|6648|South West England

Just had a thought as to what if this spread to other MMO's, Star Wars Galaxies in particular, I mean the civil war in it is an empire againest a collection of terrorists, would suck to be a Rebel Player then...

2008-02-26 09:54:44

#22

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|6726|Salt Lake City

Damn, now they'll add me to their watch list because I've played as the terrorists in CS:S!

2008-02-26 09:59:59

#23

Mitch: 16 more years; +877|6515|South Florida

Cool guys! Hey, you know what would be an awesome idea. Let's make a law that takes all guns out of games! That way, we can reduce gun-related crime!

/fuckingsarcasm
Who knows whats next honestly.

15 more years! 15 more years!

2008-02-26 10:03:16

#24

henno13: A generally unremarkable member; +230|6339|Belfast

my guess that CS and Bf2 will be watched

2008-02-29 16:28:22

#25

san4: The Mas; +311|6678|NYC, a place to live

Data mining is a pathetically flawed method of finding bad guys. Every penny spent on it is wasted.

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