Does Anonymity In Virtual Worlds Breed Terrorism? 295
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."
Terror Gnomes (Score:5, Funny)
whats wrong (Score:5, Funny)
See something suspicious? Report it! (Score:1, Funny)
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!
they dress up like bears (Score:5, Funny)
If by "terrorists", you mean "furries" and "furry sympathizers", then I would have to agree with you.
WTF (Score:2, Funny)
No (Score:3, Funny)
Re:no more than anonymity in the real world... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Monitor this! (Score:5, Funny)
How could you know that? Unless...
I FOUND ONE! Call DHS!
we should be afraid of anynymous (Score:4, Funny)
Think of it, Memes filling every newspaper, kittehs running wild in the streets, and lets not even go into the bucket..
Second Life is terror-proof (Score:1, Funny)
* 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
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
They can't monitor me and my co-conspirators (Score:3, Funny)
Because they don't know I'm a terrorist.
Oh, Sh**t! What's that red dot?
It's a plot! (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Terrorists never plan anything at home... (Score:2, Funny)
Because of the convenient AC option (Score:2, Funny)
False positives (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:whats wrong (Score:1, Funny)
Re:no more than anonymity in the real world... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In fact less (Score:4, Funny)
Anonymous (Score:0, Funny)
Ya know, govt might mistake 4chan for a terrorist HQ this way.
Re:In fact less (Score:3, Funny)
=Smidge=
They already do (Score:3, Funny)
We call them griefers .
Re:no more than anonymity in the real world... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:False positives (Score:1, Funny)