blog
Aritcle
digg
2
How MMOs Can Be Used by Terrorists?
Category: Default Game: World of Warcraft Posted on Sep 20, 2008 8:38 pm
MMO games can be used not only for fun, but also for terrorist plots, shows the following study conducted by Pentagon researcher.
Do you find anything strange or worrying in this game convo? No? Well, you’re apparently not scared as the American military and intelligence workers who are increasingly worried that terrorist might plan a real life attack in the virtual world. But, the terrorist still haven't given many details about how it might be done. So, the Pentagon researcher has shown how such terror plot might unfold. The planning ground he used in his experiment was World of Warcraft. The main target of the possibly nuclear strike is as usual: the White House.
However, there’s still no public evidence that terrorists hatching plots in virtual worlds. But online spaces like World of Warcraft and other popular MMO games are making some generals and congressmen really nervous about the whole idea.
They imagine terrorists rehearsing attacks in these worlds of MMO games, just like the U.S. military trains with commercial shooters.
They are worried that the massively multiplayer online games make it incredibly easy to gather plotters from around the world.
But, spies may find searching for the terror plot in the virtual world very frustrating, because virtual worlds are so hard to monitor:
In it, two WoW players discuss a raid on the "White Keep" inside the "Stonetalon Mountains". The major objective they’ve been discuss of is to set a "Dragon Fire spell" inside, and make off with "110 Gold and 234 Silver" in treasure.
Except, in this case the "White Keep" is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
"Dragon Fire" is supposed to be an unconventional weapon.
And "110 Gold and 234 Silver" tells the plotters how to align the game's map with one of Washington, D.C.
The fictional plot was developed by Dan Arey, for the Director of National Intelligence's Summer Hard Problems workshop. However, the real WoW players may discover mistakes in it.
The terminology used in plot doesn't match World of Warcraft language. There is no "White Keep" in World of Warcraft. Also, "Dragon Fire" is a spell in EverQuest, the old-school RPG, not WoW. This shows that Agency’s employees aren’t actually experienced Pallys and Shamys. However, this still give an insight on how certain terrorist plot can be created within the virtual world of one MMO game.
Basically this means that terrorist can use any MMO game they want, like WoW or Second Life, to create a plot for the real life destruction and mayhem, but it’s still just a possibility that should be seriously considered.
Dr. Toavs, is one of those who believes that spies will have to spend more time in virtual worlds like WoW, if they want to get full scope of what’s going inside.
For common WoW players that means that they’ll be soon surrounded with Level 70 Secret Agents along with Druids, Shamans or Paladins.
Do you find anything strange or worrying in this game convo? No? Well, you’re apparently not scared as the American military and intelligence workers who are increasingly worried that terrorist might plan a real life attack in the virtual world. But, the terrorist still haven't given many details about how it might be done. So, the Pentagon researcher has shown how such terror plot might unfold. The planning ground he used in his experiment was World of Warcraft. The main target of the possibly nuclear strike is as usual: the White House.
However, there’s still no public evidence that terrorists hatching plots in virtual worlds. But online spaces like World of Warcraft and other popular MMO games are making some generals and congressmen really nervous about the whole idea.
They imagine terrorists rehearsing attacks in these worlds of MMO games, just like the U.S. military trains with commercial shooters.
They are worried that the massively multiplayer online games make it incredibly easy to gather plotters from around the world.
But, spies may find searching for the terror plot in the virtual world very frustrating, because virtual worlds are so hard to monitor:
- All game accounts are usually pseudonyms
- The access to the game is global
- The game jargon is thick
In it, two WoW players discuss a raid on the "White Keep" inside the "Stonetalon Mountains". The major objective they’ve been discuss of is to set a "Dragon Fire spell" inside, and make off with "110 Gold and 234 Silver" in treasure.
Except, in this case the "White Keep" is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
"Dragon Fire" is supposed to be an unconventional weapon.
And "110 Gold and 234 Silver" tells the plotters how to align the game's map with one of Washington, D.C.
The fictional plot was developed by Dan Arey, for the Director of National Intelligence's Summer Hard Problems workshop. However, the real WoW players may discover mistakes in it.
The terminology used in plot doesn't match World of Warcraft language. There is no "White Keep" in World of Warcraft. Also, "Dragon Fire" is a spell in EverQuest, the old-school RPG, not WoW. This shows that Agency’s employees aren’t actually experienced Pallys and Shamys. However, this still give an insight on how certain terrorist plot can be created within the virtual world of one MMO game.
Basically this means that terrorist can use any MMO game they want, like WoW or Second Life, to create a plot for the real life destruction and mayhem, but it’s still just a possibility that should be seriously considered.
Dr. Toavs, is one of those who believes that spies will have to spend more time in virtual worlds like WoW, if they want to get full scope of what’s going inside.
For common WoW players that means that they’ll be soon surrounded with Level 70 Secret Agents along with Druids, Shamans or Paladins.
Tags: Terrorists WOW World Of Warcraft
Ariticle url: http://my.mmosite.com/blog/d9cbefccf6aaa54fa4bffb7248288ba2/blog/item/3fc7c25fd9518f10cf57e143f0e82c9f.html