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2022-02-12 Cyber

Russian boy, 16, is jailed for five years for planning to blow up a virtual building in the Minecraft video game

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-12 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Breakout plan:

Punch trees to get wood.

Use wood to craft crafting table

Use crafting table + wood to craft wood axe and pickaxe.

use Wood Axe to cut more wood

use pickaxe to get stone blocks

use stone blocks and crafting table to craft stone sword and pickaxe

use stone sword to kill any MOBs who get to curious,

use stone pickaxe to dig tunnel under wall

ESCAPE

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-02-12 01:15|| 2022-02-12 01:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Judge: "This isn't a game, son..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-12 06:36|| 2022-02-12 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Next, they were going to kidnap the Governor of Michigan.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2022-02-12 08:39|| 2022-02-12 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ She's a 5. Looks like a blockheaded Minecraft avatar, actually

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 09:10|| 2022-02-12 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 This being the Daily Mail and me being suspicious, I cannot help but wonder if there is something more here beyond playing Minecraft. Back when Doom(tm) was a thing, the US Marines created custom game scenarios for training 4 man fire teams. Could it be that our young hooligans had their eye on a real-world target?

Posted by SteveS 2022-02-12 10:44|| 2022-02-12 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 That is what the article hints at:

According to investigators, the three teenagers were learning to make improvised explosive devices and practised detonating them in abandoned buildings.

What they were doing wasn't *all* fantasy. But there's a world of difference between the physics of minecraft and the real world.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-02-12 10:52|| 2022-02-12 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Using video game chat options as a way to coordinate has been a thing since at least World of Warcraft.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-12 11:06|| 2022-02-12 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Virtual jail or real jail as in "DC Gitmo"?

Posted by JohnQC 2022-02-12 11:17|| 2022-02-12 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Humpf. When I was a kid, the local hobby store held seminars on building match head pipe bombs.... personally preferred playing with molotovs....

Posted by Mercutio 2022-02-12 11:32|| 2022-02-12 11:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Not a hint but supported by actual evidence of real-world coordinated anarchist activity -- nb Russia has a long and unsettling history with violent revolutionary anarchists:

"In summer 2020, Uvarov and two other teenagers were in the Siberian city of Kansk for spreading leaflets in support of a Moscow mathematician and anarchist activist who was on trial for vandalism.

"The trio put one of the leaflets on a local building of the FSB, Russia's powerful domestic security agency and successor of the Soviet-era KGB.

"Police took their phones and said they found an exchange about plans to blow up an FSB building that they had created in the popular block-building game Minecraft."

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 12:13|| 2022-02-12 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 A thought crime...coming to a court near you.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-02-12 13:11|| 2022-02-12 13:11|| Front Page Top

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