{"id":52,"date":"2008-09-21T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rglas.dds.nl\/wordpress%20blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/21\/spot-the-real-warcraft\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:49:29","slug":"spot-the-real-warcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/2008\/09\/21\/spot-the-real-warcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot the real Warcraft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it\u2019s another World of Warcraft post. This news item was just too interesting to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>In a presentation on \u2018emerging media: its effects on organisations\u2019 (powerpoint <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/files\/OSC-TOAVS.ppt\">here<\/a>), the US based National Defence University\u2019s Dr. Dwight Toavs used World of Warcraft for a fictional case of terrorist plotting through virtual worlds. The terrorist are using WoW maps and lingo for organising an attack on the White House.<\/p>\n<p>According to WiReD, who wrote a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/09\/world-of-warcra.html\">article <\/a>on this amazing piece of terrorism scare, Toavs \u2018believes 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 &#8217;em.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2008\/02\/nations-spies-w.html\">stories <\/a>like these before. That it could actually happen (I mean, if I was a smart terrorist\u2026) or that secret agents are maybe scouring through my in-game talk, I\u2019m not sure which one is scarier.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/images\/2008\/09\/15\/osctoavs2.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/images\/2008\/09\/15\/osctoavs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it\u2019s another World of Warcraft post. This news item was just too interesting to pass up. In a presentation on \u2018emerging media: its effects on organisations\u2019 (powerpoint here), the US based National Defence University\u2019s Dr. Dwight Toavs used World of Warcraft for a fictional case of terrorist plotting through virtual worlds. The terrorist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/2008\/09\/21\/spot-the-real-warcraft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spot the real Warcraft.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}