2007-08-01
Oz RLY?
Via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reynardo, the Murdoch press gives us the high-quality journalism that made it famous:
Kevin Zuccato, head of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in Canberra, says terrorists can gain training in games such as World of Warcraft in a simulated environment, using weapons that are identical to real-world armaments.
Even on the article's main focus, Second Life, the Oz can't resist embellishing. Compare the shocking lead sentence:
The bomb hit the ABC's headquarters, destroying everything except one digital transmission tower.
With this admission, buried way down in the article:
The ABC has discovered that its bomb was a computer server error that it was able to fix within a couple of hours. Nonetheless, it is taking the likelihood of a terrorist attack seriously.
Which is to say, it wasn't a bomb, not even in SL's pretend universe. There are other genuine SL attacks, discussed in the article, so I'm not sure why they felt the need to pad it - maybe they wanted an Australian connection?
(BTW, before we go lambasting Zuccato for that remark, note that the Oz doesn't actually quote him there; my money would be on the stupidity coming from a journalist.)
reynardo, the Murdoch press gives us the high-quality journalism that made it famous:Kevin Zuccato, head of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in Canberra, says terrorists can gain training in games such as World of Warcraft in a simulated environment, using weapons that are identical to real-world armaments.
Even on the article's main focus, Second Life, the Oz can't resist embellishing. Compare the shocking lead sentence:
The bomb hit the ABC's headquarters, destroying everything except one digital transmission tower.
With this admission, buried way down in the article:
The ABC has discovered that its bomb was a computer server error that it was able to fix within a couple of hours. Nonetheless, it is taking the likelihood of a terrorist attack seriously.
Which is to say, it wasn't a bomb, not even in SL's pretend universe. There are other genuine SL attacks, discussed in the article, so I'm not sure why they felt the need to pad it - maybe they wanted an Australian connection?
(BTW, before we go lambasting Zuccato for that remark, note that the Oz doesn't actually quote him there; my money would be on the stupidity coming from a journalist.)