When they came for my rogue, I said nothing.

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When they came for my rogue, I said nothing.

By KcM ⋅ March 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

“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.” The Director of National Intelligence announces a project to uncover terrorists in World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs. It seems the US government has finally awakened to the catastrophic dangers posed by Bin Laden’s vast army of h4x0rs and ninjas. (Via Yglesias, where the game-savvy commenters are already having a good deal of fun with it.)

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2 Responses to “When they came for my rogue, I said nothing.”

I suppose purposely blowing up half the raid on Baron Geddon counts as suspicious activity.

Ragnaros hu-akbar!

Posted by Alan Hitt | March 12, 2008, 7:12 pm

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You can have the same sort of suicide-bomber fun with Shade of Aran in Karazhan and Solarian in Tempest Keep. There’s three WoW data points for the personality profile. Have at it, NSA.

Posted by Kevin | March 13, 2008, 1:25 am

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