Alarm bells ring — again — about virtual terrorism
By Adam Reuters
Scary reports of terrorism and money laundering in Second Life are nothing new. And the threat is certainly more than just hypothetical: Linden Lab has been culling old accounts due to fears of fraud, and Reuters has learned that Chief Financial Officer John Zdanowski is planning to talk tomorrow about stolen credit cards that were used to buy Linden dollars.
But this week’s Economist has an otherwise well-thought out article about cyber-jihad with an inexcusably vague assertion:
Inevitably, experts say, jihadists have also started to create “residents” in the virtual world of Second Life.
Really? Is it inevitable that we will one day find Al-Qaeda in Second Life? Or just that “experts” will pontificate about the possibility without producing any evidence?
