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."

Really?? Are you shaking your head right now as much as I am? Could our government, the United States freakin' government, really be data-mining MMORPGs and online games to look for possible terror suspects? I am just stunned by this whole thing.

Here's the whole story from Wired.

Child pornographer tries to out smart the US government

Never underestimate a child pornographers ability to try to cover their own butts. Such is the case from one Javier Perez in Texas, who was purposely leaving his wireless access points open, so that if he ever got caught, he could pin the bad stuff on possible "leachers."

Here is how it went. A Yahoo! member sent an IM containing the picture of a naked child from an IP address registered to one Javier Perez. When the FBI found out, they raided Perez's apartment and found a CD-ROM containing more porn pictures. He was charged and subsequentially sentenced to more than 4 years in jail.

Perez appealed saying that his WiFi network was open and that the IM name was actually registered to his roommate. This did not satisfy the court, who upheld his sentence.

Every now and then, they get it right.

So the moral of the story? Don't think not locking down your wireless network with a password will help you escape the wrath of the US government ya sicko!!!