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Category: Rant Posted on Sep 20, 2008 Add to Bookmark

This is a response to Lean's article: How MMOs Can Be Used by Terrorists?. I was going to post this as a comment on the article, but I didn't have enough room, hehe.
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Yep, once again the American Military Intellence (an oxymoron if I ever saw one) has gone and made an incredibly stupid move. Turns out World of Warcraft can be used as a communication medium for terrorists! Who knew?!

Well, I did, for one, and I've known all along... how did I know, you wonder? Easy. It's because...

...wait for it...

...I'm not a total frikking idiot, is why.

OF COURSE terrorists can communicate through World of Warcraft... anyone can. You might find a child-porn ring being run through Mabinogi's servers or even an international drug and slave trading organisation that works through Second Life or an online prostitution racquet running through 3feel. Any form of communication can be used for these purposes.
The irresponsible part is that now they've managed to get people worried about this by releasing a blatantly freaking obvious statement that will achieve nothing but panic.

Allow me to app

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