Fergie's Tech Blog

Confessions of a Virtual Intelligence Analyst

Via Terra Nova.

We live in a world where the technology exists that the government or other technically sophisticated group is able to monitor and analyze a substantial fraction of the communications of the world's population, or can track their movements throughout the day, or keep tabs on their financial transactions.

And that world is called World of Warcraft.

While the NSA has been capturing and analyzing international phone calls and electronic communications, with far less press coverage I’ve spent much of the last year collecting and helping to analyze data scraped from World of Warcraft as part of the largest quantitative study of virtual worlds to date.

posted by Fergie @ 3/17/2006 08:09:00 AM