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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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The War On Terror Has Been Officially Won

At least that's the only way I can explain this story:

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."

Apparently the United States government has successfully eliminated all terrorists in the real world, and so has decided to dedicate funds to finding them in the virtual world.  Congratulations everyone... the War on Terror is officially over.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:13:38 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
More likely they are data mining for those people with the "moral flexibility" to join the "rarified profession" of Gross Point Blank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Pointe_Blank

It may be better than a psych test since the behavior is self-selected.

John Washburn
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:27:10 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.
Nick
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:51:58 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
My sarcasm filter blocked 90% of that post.
Aaron
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:57:33 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
I was not being sarcastic.

Once you identify WoW players meeting your profile, you wait until they get into right kind of trouble with law (demonstrating the behavior is not confined to the virtual). At that point recruitment into the "mechanical operations departments" of a three letter agency becomes viable. Jail or army is a long standing offer from governments.

One more thing for the total information awareness (TIA = Big Auntie) to watch for.
John Washburn
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:59:17 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
"Me. Go G.! On you! Never!"

"Thanks for the pen"
John Washburn
Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:54:56 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
They think that games with their own currency systems would be a way to launder money, and games with their own chat systems might be a way to converse undetected.
John Foust
Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:03:24 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
I think they got the idea of hunting for terrorists there after Ron Paul's presidential campaign started organizing there.
james wigderson
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