Un-Frakkin Believable!

DAMN! They found me out!!!

If it wasnt for that dog and those Meddling kids, I would've gotten away with it!!!

Boy are they going to be bummed when they find out their 72 virgins are all male and live in their parents' basement...

Ahh LOL LOL LOL!

When people can laugh at them more coommonly, we will know they are really on the run. They really are absurd, if you think about it, along with being so horrific.

/me declares JIHAD on all terrorists in Second Life.

Now, where are my roadside bombs?

And I my Kitty of Doom just wanted to be fed and use the catbox.

The terrorist went on to describe his shock at seeing his fellow terrorists lying dead in the street. "Why didn't they just go home and TP back?"

Whats really scary is these guys are the idiots going after the terrorists..I thought there was some type of IQ standered for being a spook lol
The three stooges could NEVER have been this funny hehehehe

U win teh fourmz!

I'm inclined to laugh at Rampant Paranoia where ever i see it as well, But One thing Gives me pause however;
The Run For Life campaign this past week generated something over $100,000 USD in Donations through SL for a Very Good cause. To Me, it isn't inconceivable that someone COULD do the same thing for a Bad one. Training isn't really an issue, but Recruiting, and Fundraising?

I'm Not saying i believe it IS happening, But i have to Acknowledge the Possibility.

No opinion, Just a thought.

Angel.

I find it interesting that they have yet to approve a single comment. I've forwarded the article to all the corporations they mentioned, so that those corporatations can insure not to purchase advertising with a parody news site.

Oooh, I wanna see a terrorist with their hair, shoes and guns up their butts!

Hey, someone else apart from me got a Kitty of Doom? I once orbited myself with it and it took me days to get down again because I couldn't reach the Kitty to stop it...and nothing else would stop me from shooting upwards....HEY, does that mean I'm a terrorist, too? I'm too daft to use me own weapons?

(Actually, I'm Muslim and although I find most of these comments hilariously funny, there is a serious background to all of this, and part of it is the fact that those Al Qaeda wackos and their pals give us perfectly sane Muslims a bad name)

All wackos of all stripes give perfectly sane people of all stripes a bad name.

Now, where is that article about how how using the telephone and or writing letters enables terrorism?

..AND at half three in the morning, I'm apparently too daft to log my poor alt out and log myself in.... I must be a SL terrorist!

Rest assured that to anyone with the slightest bit of inteligence they don't.

It exists as a possibility, but aren't there trading limits on the LindeX already to reduce the likelihood of SL being used for money laundering?

Maybe it's just me, but I can't really see extreme Islamic fundamentalists doing much in the way of generating inworld income in the existing Second Life culture.

Much like the Ku Klux Klan give us perfectly sane Americans a bad name, eh?

Certainly possible- although it would be much more limited in scale. I can't see the number of creators behind "terrorists r us" as there were behind RfL. But it's *financial* threats to associate with potential terrorism in SL- not black ops training or griefing.

I've aways thought that the potential for laundering cash through SL is a little higher than one might like- and perhaps you could train people the importance for an organized movement, but the article implies that they're training people in SL like they trained people in the flight simulators pre 9-11 and that's simply absurd. They'd be better off training people in World of Warcraft where combat systems are semi regulated. Otherwise they'd have to start from scratch working on a high tech physics engine for weapon combat to give realistic results from bombings or even street fighting tactics.... and apart from creating that training ground that time spent building in SL is utterly wasted in terms of actual movement. You're not going to design/test a bomb in SL and apply that to real life!

Could Terrorists be using platforms like this for their own uses? sure. But they're not training their suicide bombers by having them fly helicopters into a building in SL. The thought is absurd.

Well chere, i DID say "Training Isn't Really an Issue,,," No RL equivilent that would be of any use could be set up in SL that doesn't have a Superior equivelant Software available that could be used in More Secure Circumstances (Thinking of Flight Simulators). the Idea of any Other form of SL Training being usable in RL circumstances is just Silly.

Angel.

An interesting thing I found out about the reporter, she is a senior writer for The Australian. Same story is on their site here:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22161037-28737,00.html

Apparently there is a very crazy paragraph about WoW being a training ground for terrorist also.

http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/07/31/yet-another-massive-social-problem-somehow-blamed-on-wow/

I feel like people are taking crazy pills and leaving me out again.

My concern about terrorists is, especially now that voice is coming, that they will have a means of communicating in real time that is hard to trace and not recorded by the system. SL is a security breach for corporations, especially with voice now in the mix. Theoretically, it is even more so for national security.

Actually you have nailed the problem. Just as some businesses use SL as a means for conferencing over distance, a terrorist outfit could also. Yes voice makes this more attractive (as long as they are careful to not be overheard).

On the bright side, they could never count on the grid being up at the critical moments involved in an actual attack scenario.

Couldn't they do the same using Skype instead of SL voice? Better still, forget SL altogether and just use Skype.

I was thinking the same thing. Also there is Ventrillo or Teamspeak as other voice options.