From dave@farber.net Fri Jul 6 02:34:01 2018 From: David Farber To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [IP] Spies' Battleground Turns Virtual Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:34:01 +0000 Message-ID: <172289000360.3849117.6275667962670738634.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8959651195132541714==" --===============8959651195132541714== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ________________________________________ From: eekid(a)aol.com [eekid(a)aol.com] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:46 PM To: dfarber(a)cs.cmu.edu; David Farber Subject: Spies' Battleground Turns Virtual http://www.infosecnews.org/pipermail/isn/2008-February/015882.html "Over the last few years, "virtual worlds" such as Second Life and other role= -playing games have become home to millions of computer-generated personas kn= own as avatars. By directing their avatars, people can take on alternate pers= onalities, socialize, explore and earn and spend money uncharted online lands= capes." "Intelligence officials who have examined these systems say they're convinced= that the qualities that many computer users find so attractive about virtual= worlds -- including anonymity, global access and the expanded ability to mak= e financial transfers outside normal channels -- have turned them into seedbe= ds for transnational threats." ________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail! ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=3Dnow RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============8959651195132541714==--