Just how would terrorists plan an attack through an online virtual world like World of Warcraft using actual game lingo to mask their true intents? This isn't the premise for an episode of 24, although the writers of that show may want to start taking notes. Pentagon researchers have been trying to answer this premise and recently revealed a possible scenario, which comes off as even more absurd. Apparently, terrorists could use character names such as "WAR_MONGER" and "TALON238". Their primary form of coded chatter would be in-game World of Warcraft lingo. These digital terrorists discuss the "Stonetalon Mountains" where the "White Castle" resides, which they plan to attack with a recently acquired "Dragon Fire" spell.
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Do you srsly think """"terror ists"""" would pay for WoW???
I think theyd find a free server... theyre never checked that way...
And hails 2 america's privacy!!!
The real terrorist is BUSH and the men behind the curtain, who are terrorizing the middle east.
Yes I believe terrorists would use an online game to communicate and spending $15 a month would not deter them from it. Was that a serious comment? As far as privacy goes, I would rather our government monitor online communications because its not a big deal unless you have something to hide. For the record, I'm not Republican and I pray to God Obama wins.
Everyone is addicted.
Anyone who dismisses this and says that terrorists would never do this underestimate the fact that terrorists are just people, too. If some government agents (or any Joe Schmoe) can theorize a scenario where it could be done, so could a terrorist. The difference is, when a common person imagines this, it becomes a book or a movie. When a terrorist imagines this, it becomes reality. It would be no different than, say, a bunch of teenagers creating a custom map in a 3d game that mimics their school layout, then using this to rehearse a shooting scenario before actually carrying it out.
The terrorists of 9/11 used various tactics to communicate their plans in a way that even complex artificial intelligence monitoring and interpreting every conversation automatically would have been unable to figure it out.
By using a private server, they would be calling more attention to themselves. By specifically using the same public servers that millions or people every day use to communicate planned virtual attacks in a virtual world, the terrorists could do the same. There would be almost no way to tell the difference between teenagers planning to level their characters or adults planning to level a building.
The only way to prevent scenarios like this is to IMAGINE they are possible... PLAN it out... and then LEARN from this, in order to determine HOW one might detect the difference between imagination and reality. Only then will they know what to look for. Maybe it's as simple as finding characters in the game that make a lot of plans to attack, but constantly remain a very low level and never actually participate in the game itself much.
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