World Of Warcraft: Government Considers WoW "Data Mining" to Look for Terrorists

Wired.com is featuring an interesting blog about how certain government agencies are developing software to assist in the detection of violent terrorists.

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."

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