http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/nations-spies-w.html
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."
Don't these people realize that gamers don't have TIME to be terrorists? Come on, now. How the heck are you going to organize a terroristic threat when you are trying to get a PUG together for Shattered Halls? Who has time to be a terrorist when you have to grind for rep with Lower City?
Waaaaiiiiittttt a miiiinnnnnuuutttteeeee.....this could be the greatest thing ever!
Maybe we can convince the Feds that all of those gold farming sites are actually fronts for terrorist cells. Then whenever some spammer stands in the middle of Ironforge spamming his gold selling site, virtual U.S. Homeland Security agents jump the toon and arrest him!
That would rock!
This could be the answer we have been waiting for, people. Some stupid Alliance character camping your corpse in a Battleground? Report him as a terrorist! Some bot farming all the mining nodes in Nagrand? Report him as a terrorist! Some ninja stole the uber-epic drop from the last boss? Report him as a terrorist!
Do you think they will have their own guild? Or maybe they already do. There is that Gnomeland Security Guild on my Steamwheedle server. Who would suspect a bunch of gnomes to be spies?
Well, ok, I personally would. But I mean normal people, not me.


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