Comments on: Is Second Life really a haven for terrorists?

By: “So Jaredpower, what’s your burger-flipping experience?”

“So Jaredpower, what’s your burger-flipping experience?” — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:59:08 +0000

[...] seems that as well as the virtual reality world being used by terrorists and spies, it is also being used by employers to conduct virtual job interviews. The big employers are buying [...]

By: Let’s play Sim Iraq!

Let’s play Sim Iraq! — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:01:51 +0000

[...] a few days ago, I mentioned how the US intelligence community was using ‘Second Life’ for training. Now it seems it is also building virtual reality models of Iraq to get to know the place [...]

By: BelchSpeak

BelchSpeak — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:07:24 +0000

I LOL when foreigners try to understand US Government entities. This article was not based on anything the CIA was doing- It was based on contractors working a project, in this case, IARPA. Its like a thinktank group working for your MI5.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Advanced_Research_Projects_Activity

When you see stories like this, its a desperate cry for more funding. Or perhaps a cry to cut funding.

And I also think its more likely that terrorists will communicate with one another by keywords in common spam then in a virtual world.