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.

AT&T to Start Scanning Their Network for Pirated Material

In a move that could send ISPs tumbling down a slippery slope toward serving big media companies before consumers, AT&T has decided to start targeting pirated content being moved across its network.

How exactly they'll do that isn't clear, but there doesn't seem to be any real way of them detecting what materials being sent are copyrighted without them prying into every file people send online. But hey, what's wrong with that?

We should trust AT&T! It's not like they spy on us for the government already or anything.

Read the BS after the jump. [LA Times]