General Discussion

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."

• The cultural and behavioral norms of virtual worlds and gaming are generally unstudied. Therefore, Reynard will seek to identify the emerging social, behavioral and cultural norms in virtual worlds and gaming environments. The project would then apply the lessons learned to determine the feasibility of automatically detecting suspicious behavior and actions in the virtual world.


• If it shows early promise, this small seedling effort may increase its scope to a full project.

Reynard will conduct unclassified research in a public virtual world environment. The research will use publicly available data and will begin with observational studies to establish baseline normative behaviors.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/nations-spies-w.html

........BREAKING NEWS!........

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=74508

Director of National Intelligence: Sir! Our CIA report show high possibility that al-Qadea leaders are playing chicken in Middle Earth

Bush: Aha! I knew it

I can't say I didn't see this coming but never thought they'd actually start things like this.  I don't live in the U.S. and just hope that these kind of views don't affect the rest of the world and how they enjoy the games they play.  I'm all for stopping people who want to do harm to others but there are better more constructive ways of doing it rather then looking for them in virtual worlds that sometimes have an "evil" side to it and "evil" behavior is sometimes part of said game.

I can see it now.  One day little Jimmy logs on to WoW to play some battlegrounds and some rogue ends up camping him in the graveyard where he keeps respawning.  All of a sudden the person playing said rogue gets a knock on the door of his/her apartment and CIA agents burst in claiming he was terrorizing America's youth.

Probably MY fault.  I posted on a known to be monitored miltia website aka ASSAULTWEB.net  that I had a vent server that had arabs on it who played WoW.  I suspect the CIA got word of this "problem" from that post, even though it was obivous that all of those guys were liberals who had no use for radicals.

As I am a contributor on a militia website I really don't care much about being monitored as I was aware that would happen when I got involved.  I do hate the scare tacitics the CIA uses to scare other people.  It's a movement that opposes free thought.

Originally posted by wihtgar

Probably MY fault.  I posted on a known to be monitored miltia website aka ASSAULTWEB.net  that I had a vent server that had arabs on it who played WoW.  I suspect the CIA got word of this "problem" from that post, even though it was obivous that all of those guys were liberals who had no use for radicals.

As I am a contributor on a militia website I really don't care much about being monitored as I was aware that would happen when I got involved.  I do hate the scare tacitics the CIA uses to scare other people.  It's a movement that opposes free thought.

Please don't tell me that you really think you had something to do with this... This has to  be a joke.

It has been known for some time that terrorists have been using WoW to train people...

WTB Weps grd. plutonium! Msg me!

I knew there were suspicious things going on in WoW, just didn't know they were this suspicious..

Believe it or not - you probably pose more of a threat than Arabs. You got Arabs or part Arabs such as Ralph Nader, Paula Abdul, and the list goes on TV. No one gives them a second thought. Traditional dressed/looking Arabs are useful as a scarecrow on Fox and such. Yeah there are always extremists and haters in any group but most  Arabs are harmless. The minority bad guys they can get with hell-fire missiles in their own native countries before they even get into the US. However, weapon touting white Americans with anti-governmental talk of liberty and freedom scare the sh*t out of the suits. I guess they figured they can be found in WoW *boogle*  I highly doubt though that they can conduct those studies without having access to Blizzard's internal servers and such, which may not be that much of a problem.

CIA agent will start everything they say with: "My friend," and al-Qadea would end everything they say with "God willing"

CIA Agent pretending to be a dwarf: "My friend, what guild do you belong to? Where do you live in RL?"

al-Qadea pretending to be a Wizard: "I will mana burn this raid mob and bring it down, God willing"

Originally posted by Raunu

 

Originally posted by wihtgar

Probably MY fault.  I posted on a known to be monitored miltia website aka ASSAULTWEB.net  that I had a vent server that had arabs on it who played WoW.  I suspect the CIA got word of this "problem" from that post, even though it was obivous that all of those guys were liberals who had no use for radicals.

As I am a contributor on a militia website I really don't care much about being monitored as I was aware that would happen when I got involved.  I do hate the scare tacitics the CIA uses to scare other people.  It's a movement that opposes free thought.

 

Please don't tell me that you really think you had something to do with this... This has to  be a joke.

It has been known for some time that terrorists have been using WoW to train people...

I hate to say it and it may sound pompous but yeah.  I've been targeted before.  I had people contact me wanting to trade an "AK-47" for a pistol that I was trying to sell.   It was obviously not a legal deal. ...  I don't buy for one second that these guys were militia... no one would be that stupid.....

I'm pretty sure my posts are monitored.