WTF? This cant be for real you must be thinking, well unforatunately it is. Seems like the US government believes that World of Warcraft can do more than just corrupt a young person’s mind and waste your time in real life. The government believes that WoW can be used to plot and set into motion dastardly terrorist plans on a real life scale.

There’s been no public proof to date of terrorists hatching plots in virtual worlds. But online spaces like World of Warcraft are making some spooks, generals and Congressmen extremely nervous. They imagine terrorists rehearsing attacks in these worlds, just like the U.S. military trains with commercial shoot-em-up games. They worry that the massively multiplayer games make it incredibly easy to gather plotters from around the world. But, mostly, virtual worlds are nerve-wracking to spies because they’re so hard to monitor. The accounts are pseudonymous. The access is global. The jargon is thick. And most of the spy agencies’ employees aren’t exactly level-70 shamans.

The thought process is that the in game capability of chatting and the games lingo can be used to develop a plan that no one currently would be able to decode. Using in game talk like raids, loot, races and city names to take the place of actual real life targets and strategies. Seems to me that the FBI needs to employ some hardcore gamers to help them crack some of this.

Hit the jump to read more about World of Warcraft as a terrorist plot and to see a mock scenario that has been set up.
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