Comments on: Cyb0r Warfare http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/ Random Comments About Gaming And Tractors Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: AndyB http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13282 AndyB Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:52:30 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13282 It's not just Snowcrash - try the superb Halting State by Charles Stross for a slightly different take on gaming and international espionage. ;) It’s not just Snowcrash – try the superb Halting State by Charles Stross for a slightly different take on gaming and international espionage. ;)

]]> By: Axecleaver http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13284 Axecleaver Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:25:56 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13284 It's more likely the result of a bored first-year CIA analyst who wanted to justify taking his online hobby to work. Seemed to me the angle they were trying to exploit from the article was the money laundering one. So if you wanted to get a million dollars in the hands of an operative, you'd buy a bazillion Linden Bucks somehow (RTM traders maybe?), hand it to him in game, and then he'd cash it out to turn it back into money. Not sure how viable a laundering technique that is, though, compared to other much simpler laundering techniques that the Internet makes available. It’s more likely the result of a bored first-year CIA analyst who wanted to justify taking his online hobby to work.

Seemed to me the angle they were trying to exploit from the article was the money laundering one. So if you wanted to get a million dollars in the hands of an operative, you’d buy a bazillion Linden Bucks somehow (RTM traders maybe?), hand it to him in game, and then he’d cash it out to turn it back into money.

Not sure how viable a laundering technique that is, though, compared to other much simpler laundering techniques that the Internet makes available.

]]> By: Ravenhawk http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13281 Ravenhawk Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:38:38 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13281 In other news, I love that book. In other news, I love that book.

]]> By: Viz http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13280 Viz Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:57:49 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13280 I was always under the impression that properly done intelligence work never makes it to light, or at least not until the files are declassified 50 years down the road. I was always under the impression that properly done intelligence work never makes it to light, or at least not until the files are declassified 50 years down the road.

]]> By: Amp http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13279 Amp Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:36:48 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13279 "If that were the ONLY place people were fighting we wouldn’t really have any problems now would we?" Maybe we'll end up like that old star trek episode where the 2 worlds fight via computer...then step into a machine to die when the computer says they have died in the game. Lum can ship his game with it's own disintegration booth. You lost a duel..into the happy fun booth. “If that were the ONLY place people were fighting we wouldn’t really have any problems now would we?”

Maybe we’ll end up like that old star trek episode where the 2 worlds fight via computer…then step into a machine to die when the computer says they have died in the game.
Lum can ship his game with it’s own disintegration booth. You lost a duel..into the happy fun booth.

]]> By: DaveT http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13278 DaveT Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:30:26 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13278 Pray they don't have 70 mains. http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=CHINA-ATTACKS-WARCRAFT.html&Itemid=10021 Pray they don’t have 70 mains.

http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=CHINA-ATTACKS-WARCRAFT.html&Itemid=10021

]]> By: DLacey http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13277 DLacey Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:41:41 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13277 You'd have to be really stupid to discuss terrorist actions in someone else's server. I'm sure anyone whose crimes actually make it into action can also send someone to sysadmin school to learn to run their own servers to plan their crimes on. The inanity of this plan, I hope, is in the reporting rather than the 'intelligence community' (both fields have some very smart people, actually; but the former is using their intelligence to write popular stories sometimes rather than to report actual facts; unfortunately, the latter does this too on occasion!) You’d have to be really stupid to discuss terrorist actions in someone else’s server. I’m sure anyone whose crimes actually make it into action can also send someone to sysadmin school to learn to run their own servers to plan their crimes on. The inanity of this plan, I hope, is in the reporting rather than the ‘intelligence community’ (both fields have some very smart people, actually; but the former is using their intelligence to write popular stories sometimes rather than to report actual facts; unfortunately, the latter does this too on occasion!)

]]> By: Aufero http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13285 Aufero Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:14:29 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13285 I'm never quite sure whether to be encouraged or frightened by the complete incompetence of the intelligence community. I’m never quite sure whether to be encouraged or frightened by the complete incompetence of the intelligence community.

]]> By: Boanerges http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13286 Boanerges Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:36:23 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13286 I think they're there to ensure no more people are assaulted by flying phalluses. At least that's their cover story. I think they’re there to ensure no more people are assaulted by flying phalluses. At least that’s their cover story.

]]> By: Merkwurdigliebe http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/02/08/cyb0r-warfare/comment-page-1/#comment-13287 Merkwurdigliebe Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:54:41 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/?p=2538#comment-13287 "Virtual worlds could also become an actual battlefield." If that were the ONLY place people were fighting we wouldn't really have any problems now would we? “Virtual worlds could also become an actual battlefield.”

If that were the ONLY place people were fighting we wouldn’t really have any problems now would we?

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