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 apply the same logic to other scenarios:

MSN Messenger "custom" names:
xXxDuDe I haz der b0mz 4 u iN dA VaNz 0uTs1dE xXxXx says: ...

Speed dating:
"Hi, I'm Mohammed... where would you like your blow job?" - "Oh in the white house would be just super, thanks" DING - CHANGE PLACES.

Texas Hold'em Poker Tournaments: "I have a royal flush in the pocket, shall I use it on your full house?" "Oooh, you won the pot again with that hand, my full house has been completely destroyed by your hand."

Crossword Puzzles: Weapon of Mass ----------, 11 letters, 214000 down

The credits at the end of a boring movie:
   Dolly Grip         Joanna Rigby
   Casting            Amayda Bomm
   Best Boy          Itzin Da'Breefcase
   Lighting           Yu Zit Tu Nite
   Stunts Joe       Campbell

Two people jogging together:
"Oh hi, what're you listening to on your iPod today?" "I'm listening to: I Hope The American Scum Die Fiery Deaths At The Pentagon At Precisely 3:30pm This Friday by Those Radical Extremists" "Oh I really love that song, I'm listening to: I Have The Weapons Of Mass Destruction by All Acording To Plan"

The break room filled with greasy teenage terrorists down at my local McDonalds:
"Hey dude, did you like totally see me like totally blow up that police station the other day? It was all like BOOM and shit! Hahaha, got any drugs?"..... and so forth.

Heed my words people, your local take-away shop is a much closer terrorist threat than you think... look carefully at a map of the world and show me a single place that doesn't have a McDonalds or a Starbucks. Yup, they're eveywhere, ready to take over the world at the mere press of a button.

In all seriousness though, the pentagon researcher that released this (including the media who absent-mindedly went ahead and made sure everyone knew that this type of terrorist communication was possible) was completely irresponsible and a total jackass.

Listen well for the shrill cries of the "Bad Parents Who Blame Video Games To Hide The Fact That They Can't Raise Children Responsibly" group (BPWBVGTHTFTTCRCR) shouting that these games must be taken offline for the sake of the nation! It'll be 9/11 all over again, they cry!

They'll do it too, and there's every chance they'll succeed in getting online games either shutdown, heavily monitored or limited in some form. But it won't stop there, will it kiddies? Oh goodness no...

Next comes your mobile; that has games on it and can be used to communicate with terrorists, it has to go. Then all your paper, because you could make a game with it and write to terrorists as well, it's gone too. By releasing these sorts of fictional scenarios to an easily frightened public, this pentagon researcher has achieved only one thing...
...helping to boost the paranoia of ordinarily sane people across the world.

This might be the very first step in all of our freedoms being removed forever, let's make sure we nip it in the bud... hang on, was that some sort of terrorist code for something? Quick, ban everything I write just in case!

-Tob (The Un-Terrorist)