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This absolutely ridiculous "danger scenario" presented by a Pentagon researcher warns of how terrorists might plan attacks using, get this, World of Warcraft.

Apparently the bad guys would create characters, log on, and plan to attack a castle, using sophisticated code like "there are 110 Gold and 234 Silver inside," but--gasp!--110 and 234 are actually map coordinates for the White House! OMG! Those clever fiends!

If this doesn't illustrate just how out of touch the "intelligence" community is, we don't know what will. First of all, surely there is a better way to communicate numbers to one another than to go through the trouble of playing this game.

Second of all, as anyone familiar with people who actually play this game knows, you want terrorists playing World of Warcraft, and in fact you should be encouraging it. Get them hooked and they'll never leave the house. If the intelligence community wants to make a difference, they should find the terrorist camps, lay broadband there, and drop copies of the game like pamphlets.

via wired