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In what must be the most bizzare story of the month, I don't want to say year because we still have a long way to go, US spies want to find Terrorist on the Video Game World of Warcraft using a technology called Reynard.

• The cultural and behavioral norms of virtual worlds and gaming are generally unstudied. Therefore, Reynard will seek to identify the emerging social, behavioral and cultural norms in virtual worlds and gaming environments. The project would then apply the lessons learned to determine the feasibility of automatically detecting suspicious behavior and actions in the virtual world.
  
• If it shows early promise, this small seedling effort may increase its scope to a full project.

Reynard will conduct unclassified research in a public virtual world environment. The research will use publicly available data and will begin with observational studies to establish baseline normative behaviors.

Is this the first step into gamers being monitored by the Government. Be careful next time you play Call of Duty 4 online as an Op-For. You might get uncle sam knocking on your door.

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