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Terrorists Planning Attacks on Second Life?

July 31, 2007 in News comments 8

It's not like our very first life is free from terrorism, and it seems that our Second Life is now also being targetted by terrorists. Recently there have been many attacks, many deaths and no captures, the reason is that the terrorists are doing all this in the virtual world known as Second Life.

It's not just gamers that are interested in Second Life but terrorists, and that too for a completely different reason. Second Life provides them with the perfect place to reherse their operations before they carry out the real thing, and with three jihadi terrorists registered with two elite jihadist terrorist groups on the site, it's not too long before Second Life becomes the place to plan the "perfect crime".

    With the game taking such a sinister turn, terrorism experts are warning that SL attacks have ramifications for the real world. Just as September 11 terrorists practised flying planes on simulators in preparation for their deadly assault on US buildings, law enforcement agencies believe some of those behind the Second Life attacks are home-grown Australian jihadists who are rehearsing for strikes against real targets.
With the world keeping tighter controls on terrorist training camps, it seems as though they are hiding a lot deeper in the virtual world.

Mr Jones says streaming video can be uploaded into SL and a scenario can easily be constructed whereby an experienced bomb-maker could demonstrate how to assemble bombs using his avatar to answer questions as he plays the video.

The bomb-maker and his students could be spread across the world, using instant language translation tools to communicate.
Krunal via frostfirebuzz.com »
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    BANDITO ATTACK Jul 31, 07
    ??
    what the hell is Second Life?
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      JJBDude Jul 31, 07
      I'm not too sure but I read this news article and the description on the profile on Neoseeker and I am lead into believe this is a game which gives you the opportunties to script together what you want to make in a game with help.
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    Anime Jul 31, 07
    I've seen an increased amount of news coverage over Second Life this year, virtual offices and business ect. So it seems this game is turning more real every week from what the news reports keep telling me.
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    FRoGBuster Jul 31, 07
    wow. What an interesting idea. I never thought they would actually venture this way.
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    sten mk II Jul 31, 07
    It's just a game, I doubt video game developers will know how everything works exactly in the real world.

    I thought you could be a terrorist on the game and go around and kill other people. oh man.
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    Cruxis Mana Aug 1, 07
    I've heard a little bit about Second Life, but I didn't know that it was actually possible to do terrorist activities on it - for one, I didn't think you could die on it ...
    Its just stupid to be honest - Oo wow you can kill virtual people. How many people do that every day in FPS' / TPS' etc ...
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    Bale Fire Aug 1, 07
    Its not about doing the terrorism IN the game! Its about planning the attacks and giving information on possible attacks, like showing a video on how to construct a bomb
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    tidus04 Aug 1, 07
    This I think I heard about elsewhere were a medical guys was planning on using the site to test his pupils and that.

    hmm, this dose not sound to great to be honest, though it is only on the game the plan and devolpment can build and build, though I doubt they could ever creat the perfect crime, and btw this could be used for normal crime as well =[

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