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

February 27th, 2008

Practice models for SEAS?

It’s too early for April Fools…

Via: Wired:

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.”

Research Credit: BW

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3 Responses to “U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft”

  1. anothernut says:
    February 27, 2008 at 3:45 am

    I feel so safe now…

  2. AHuxley says:
    February 27, 2008 at 5:06 am

    So chat in game about the “The Big Wedding”?

  3. pdugan says:
    February 27, 2008 at 5:25 am

    It’s funny, because everyone in WoW is already guilty of genocide.

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