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Does Anonymity In Virtual Worlds Breed Terrorism?
An Anonymous Coward writes "The Washington Post has an article about the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's take on the numerous virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life) that have cropped up in recent years. IARPA's thesis is that because the Government can't currently monitor all the communication and interaction, terrorists will plot and scheme in such environments."
I always knew those gnomes in the tram were up to something!
-mrxak
Onions Will Kill You
I don't see a problem with creating a virtual tower and airplane... Maybe we should have a virtual reality world where you can blow yourself up and be reborn in heaven. If it is addictive enough it may curb real life terrorism.
Troll talking to an elf?
Level 3 mage and level 57 paladin in the same party?
Drow walking around aboveground during the daytime?
Brown people who talk with an accent?
Report it! It could be terrorism!
because the Government can't currently monitor all the communication and interaction, terrorists will plot and scheme in such environments.
If by "terrorists", you mean "furries" and "furry sympathizers", then I would have to agree with you.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Fact: Stupid articles like this breed terrorism.
and I will blow up anyone who says otherwise.
I'm sure once They realize how comic their attempts to justify their jobs are, they will return all the tax money and do something productive.
How could you know that? Unless...
I FOUND ONE! Call DHS!
No really, you want /b/ to take over the world?
Think of it, Memes filling every newspaper, kittehs running wild in the streets, and lets not even go into the bucket..
I am confident any potential jihadists looking to plot attacks in Second Life will be thwarted by one or more of the following:
* equipment costs of $3000 computers to get better than 8 FPS
* server crashes
* griefers spawning a million hopping Super Marios in their zone
* penises and/or furries everywhere
Terrorism?
plotting dangerous megalomaniacal schemes around my kitchen table either.
Because they don't know I'm a terrorist.
Oh, Sh**t! What's that red dot?
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Even sysadmins can't get away with that. The best we can do is sit around all day playing slashdot and get paid for it.
I'd mod the parent up; but, that might land me on a "watch list."
we also scheme heavily on slashdot.
The number of false positives is going to be astronomical. A bunch of terrorists planning a attack is going to sound very much like a bunch of spotty teens planing to raid the Dungeon of Crushing Inevitability.
Yes, my operatives and I communicate in the following fashion. We type our pre-arranged phrase into google at the agreed time and select a link at a particular ranking determined by a complicated formula involving the day of the week, the number of days from Easter and various other classified terrorist statistics. The nearest link in the page which links to some sort of open forum is then used to post the coded message which my operative will then read. This explains a lot of, what people think are, the trolls here on /..
...does not forgive, nor does he forget.
Ya know, govt might mistake 4chan for a terrorist HQ this way.
Stenography in goatse... that's so sinister it's brilliant!
=Smidge=
They are there now, plotting, and terrorizing.
We call them griefers .
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions...