Journal SPAM: Spooks Looking for Terrorists in MMRPG 1
In another bogglingly absurd and potentially abusive reach of surveillance by military and intelligence agencies, it appears that US spies believe that Osama Bin Laden may have fled caves in Tora Bora, to a secret base in World of Warcraft. After the US Congress mandated the Director of National Intelligence to submit a public report of all data-mining activities, details of the planned "Project Reynard" were disclosed. "The Reynard project will begin by profiling online gaming behavior, then potentially move on to its ultimate goal of 'automatically detecting suspicious behavior and actions in the virtual world.'" The details are disclosed in a PDF, available here and here. I, for one, feel safer already!
It's just an excuse ... (Score:2)
I'll bet it's just an excuse for a bunch of people to get $$$ to play WoW.
Expect to see others do the same for EverCrack and 2nd Life.