ONLINE GAMING TERRORISTS?! WHERE?!

[Attila]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/0 ... ies-w.html

U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft
By Ryan Singel EmailFebruary 22, 2008 | 2:15:43 PMCategories: Spooks Gone Wild

Virtual_osama_full 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."

* 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.

* If it shows early promise, this small seedling effort may increase its scope to a full project.

Reynard will conduct unclassified research in a public virtual world environment. The research will use publicly available data and will begin with observational studies to establish baseline normative behaviors.

The publicly available report -- which was mandated by Congress following earlier concerns over data-mining programs -- also mentions several other data-mining initiatives. These include:

* Video Analysis and Content Extraction - software to automatically identify faces, events and objects in video

* Tangram - A system that wants to create surveillance and threat warning system that evaluates known threats and finds unknown threats to issue warnings ahead of an attack

* Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination - This tool is reminiscent of the supposedly-defunct Total Information Awareness program. It seeks to access disparate databases to find patterns of known bad behavior. The program plans to work with domestic law enforcement and Homeland Security.

The report gives no indication why the find-a-terrorist cell in Sims project is called Reynard, though that is a traditional trickster figure in literature.

Photo: CyberExtruder

Via Secrecy News. Full unclassified DNI data mining report (.pdf)

Um... huh? seriously? I think we're officially trying too hard.

[Aerin]

Guess I have to be careful now, if I go around one-shoting a ton of noobs in WoW I might get labeled as the next school shooter.

This should be interesting.

[Tajin]

Hey!, you guys have to justify the tax monies! 8)

[elison]

WATCH OUT TAJ

[Correction]

Too late, the terrorists have already struck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHZJG6X_fs

[Charla]

Too late, the terrorists have already struck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHZJG6X_fs

gg WoW. Awesome glitch.

[Correction]

Meh that was nothing compared to a monster on a 'oops you took too long now he's invulnerable' enrage timer getting kited to a capital city:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QexhasBJazE

Or the ZG exploit that made the print news in 2005:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTTVcgyvP58

Blizzard's usually pretty good at hotfixing these within a day or two. And you have to admit it's much more fun to watch than 300 bots named 'Glfkwhfgdsa' fishing in Batallia.

[Gafgarionn]

I guarantee some nerd came up with this idea. Seriously, he's probably going to be playing the game instead of studying it.

[Mizango]

Guess I have to be careful now, if I go around one-shoting a ton of noobs in WoW I might get labeled as the next school shooter.

This should be interesting.

Yeah I read this bullshit on MSNBC earlier, my reaction is the same as it was earlier; What. The. Fuck?

[Brill Weave]

Attila answer your fucking phone and get your gay ass on Call of Duty 4.

[melbufrauma]

this just makes me wanna get wow just to fuck with people and see what kind of bullshit they can charge me with...

[Royal]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/nations-spies-w.html

U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft
By Ryan Singel EmailFebruary 22, 2008 | 2:15:43 PMCategories: Spooks Gone Wild

Virtual_osama_full Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community

I don't remember this happening.

[Attila]

Attila answer your fucking phone and get your gay ass on Call of Duty 4.

lol.... ok

[Khamsin]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/nations-spies-w.html

U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft
By Ryan Singel EmailFebruary 22, 2008 | 2:15:43 PMCategories: Spooks Gone Wild

Virtual_osama_full Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community

I don't remember this happening.

It must have. Why else would they now be turning their efforts toward WoW?

[Osede]

Um... huh? seriously? I think we're officially trying too hard.

welcome to china. huh?

[Melena]

hey, if this helps clear out the morons in trade chat, i'm all for it

[Fayttt]

hey, if this helps clear out the morons in trade chat, i'm all for it

QFT

[Faris]

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ech-742315.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...iraqsaddam.jpg

absolute paintshop skillz, yea?

[Aerin]

If only T.I.T. stood for Teenagers Inciting Terror. Then it would be better like this:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ech-742315.jpg

[Eanae]

hey, if this helps clear out the morons in trade chat, i'm all for it

Scrub! My arena rating pwns yours!11!111 /epenisstroke