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| Second Life and WoW "plagued by terrorists" |
| 2007-08-02 |
| Mods, I wasn't sure where this should be filed. Please place where it would be appropriate. Thanks AUSSIE SECURITY experts claim that Second Life and online games such as World of Warcraft are being used to train terrorists. According to the Australian newspaper a terror campaign has been waged in Second Life which has left a trail of virtual dead and injured, and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars' damage. Apparently there are three jihadi terrorists registered and two elite jihadist terrorist groups in Second Life and they use the site for recruiting and training. This is on top of the Second Life Liberation Army, which has been responsible for some computer-coded atomic bombings of stores on the site. Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside al-Qa'ida, said terrorists are rehearsing their operations in Second Life because they can't practice in the real world. Kevin Zuccato, head of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in Canberra, says terrorists can gain training in games such as World of Warcraft in a simulated environment, using weapons that are identical to real-world armaments. So we can expect more terrorist attacks involving broadswords and Heathrow airport to be closed due to suicide dragons. |
| Posted by:Delphi |
| #7 Well when those jihadis get ahold of Dumulus Prime or Arcanite Reaper then I guess we're all just toast then, eh? Feh....Seal of Command, Judge, Consecrate, Hammer of Wrath...buhbye Mahmood. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2007-08-02 16:53 |
| #6 Insert Alliance (or Horde) joke here. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2007-08-02 16:44 |
| #5 Or, more likely, some gamers got bored with the whole Second Life world and decided to have a little "Duke Nukem" style fun with the "residents". It's a video game, people. |
| Posted by: Steve 2007-08-02 15:58 |
| #4 If you also check out the link at the bottom of the page, it takes you to a article on the Australian. Virtual TerroristThree things caught my eye. 1. These knuckleheads actually blew up virtual buildings up from within the game.This is definately psychological in nature. 2. A ready recruitment tool for these terrorist 3. The terrorist can use WOW and SL as a means of laundering money by transfering from real to Linden back to real dollars to other members. A pox on the nuts. |
| Posted by: Delphi 2007-08-02 15:18 |
| #3 SOBs should be trapped in Myst. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-08-02 14:01 |
| #2 It can be a psychological benefit to go through the mental exercise of going though the process of doing something. If you practice a procedure enough times, even if it is only a rough approximation, it can make doing it in real life easier. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-08-02 13:54 |
| #1 That's rather unnerving to see yet an another western/kufr achievement (if only something as futile as online vid games) be piggybacked and spoiled by those rustics. Still, I really, really doubt someone could ever get any sort of meaningful training from such material; I could perhaps understand a dedicaced player gaining notion of tactics with team shooting game like Counterstrike, but even that wouldn't amount to much without putting it in real-life training, so the idea of "online rehearsal" seems pretty far fetched. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-08-02 13:25 |