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    IRC Chat U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft

    Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the Director of National Intelligence.

    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 cultural and behavioral norms of virtual worlds and gaming are generally unstudied. Therefore, Reynard will seek to identify the emerging social, behavioral and cultural norms in virtual worlds and gaming environments. The project would then apply the lessons learned to determine the feasibility of automatically detecting suspicious behavior and actions in the virtual world.

    If it shows early promise, this small seedling effort may increase its scope to a full project.
    Reynard will conduct unclassified research in a public virtual world environment. The research will use publicly available data and will begin with observational studies to establish baseline normative behaviors.

    The publicly available report -- which was mandated by Congress following earlier concerns over data-mining programs -- also mentions several other data-mining initiatives. These include:

    Video Analysis and Content Extraction - software to automatically identify faces, events and objects in video

    Tangram - A system that wants to create surveillance and threat warning system that evaluates known threats and finds unknown threats to issue warnings ahead of an attack

    Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination - This tool is reminiscent of the supposedly-defunct Total Information Awareness program. It seeks to access disparate databases to find patterns of known bad behavior. The program plans to work with domestic law enforcement and Homeland Security.
    The report gives no indication why the find-a-terrorist cell in Sims project is called Reynard, though that is a traditional trickster figure in literature.

    http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...s-spies-w.html

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    Wouldn't shooters be a better place to start? I hear some pretty screwed up crap in games, of course the guys just joking around but who knows what you could find.

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    okay..

    i don't have anything to say...

    they must be bored!

    PS. i don't play THAT much hehe, but i've played against some pretty f*cked up guys on counter-strike and they always get so pissed when you cheat

    i would also like to add that i've never played WoW and never will because i don't like them to charge me that much money, and i don't like the game..

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    "automatically detecting suspicious behavior and actions in the virtual world"...

    Better stop jumping everywhere just in case thats suspicious.

    Better stop challenging everyone to Duels just in case they think i'm a psychopath.

    Better stop playing as as the opposite gender just in case thats weird.

    Better stop inviting people into the guild in case they think i'm a cultist.

    Better stop plaing Fantasy based online games with no basis in reality just in case they think I'm a revolutionary.

    Better stop running a pvp corp in Eve online in case they think ganking or ransoming anyone that enters a sytem is an indicator of organised criminal gang behavior.

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    Kaffie: Their not gonna arrest you just over the what you said in a MMO. Their gonna put you on your list, do background checks, etc and then asses if your worth following around.

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    Wow..... The U.S. government must really have no life if they want to do background checks on people that play MMO's.... Isnt that profiling?

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