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Second Life & WoW Terrorist Training Camps?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

Tech.Luver writes "theinquirer reports that 'Aussie Security experts claim that Second Life and online games such as World of Warcraft are being used to train terrorists. Apparently there are three jihadi terrorists registered and two elite jihadist terrorist groups in Second Life and they use the site for recruiting and training. This is on top of the Second Life Liberation Army.""

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  1. Re:Spoof by Bonobo_Unknown · · Score: 2, Informative

    Australian "security experts" (aka Federal Police) being particularly vulnerable right now.

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

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  2. Some Researchers Take This Seriously by miller60 · · Score: 3, Informative
    In his book about MMOs ("Synthetic Worlds") researcher and "virtual economist" Edward Castronova predicted that terrorists could use virtual worlds as meet-ups for planning and training purposes. The possibility has been discussed at the TerraNova gameblog (with plenty of skepticism) as well as MetaSecurity, which tracks extremist behavior within games and the "security implications of virtual worlds." The guy who runs MetaSecurity, Roderick Jones, has published some research on terrorism and MMOs at a site called MetaTerror.

    Yeah, it seems goofy and far-fetched, but there seems to be no end of surprises about the way folks interact in/with virtual worlds.

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