Watch out Stjeev, and all you other Warcrafters out there: the government is on to your fiendish schemes!  As Noah Shachtman reports in Wired:

“In a presentation late last week at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference in Washington, Dr. Dwight Toavs, a professor at the Pentagon-funded National Defense University, gave a bit of a primer on virtual worlds to an audience largely ignorant about what happens in these online spaces. Then he launched into a scenario, to demonstrate how a meatspace plot might be hidden by in-game chatter.”

 

 Aside from the fact that this story comes straight out of a National Lampoon’s script, Noah somehow manages to find humor in the fact that Washington security types are seriously worried about what goes on in the subverisve WoW.  He ends with this choice quote:

“Toavs, for one, believes that spies will have to spend more time in virtual worlds like WoW, if they want to have a hope of keeping tabs on what goes on inside ‘em. Which means, some day soon, we might find secret agents in World of Warcraft, along with the druids and orcs and night elves.”

Beware ye computer geeks: behind every warlock and druid there might just be a fed…  

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