Real Life in the Digital World of Warcraft
On Saturday, February 27, 2010, a very interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle called, Real threat in virtual battleground: hackers” by Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, Chronicle Staff Writer (http://xrl.in/4pe1), discussed the virtual world called World of Warcraft (WoW). For those folks that don’t know what WoW is, haven’t played on line, or haven’t seen the excellent South Park episode that spoofs WoW, the simple explanation is to say that it’s a virtual medieval world where you can adopt a character, buy stuff with virtual currency, go on quests, and pick fights with other characters in the game.
What I was unaware of until this article came out was the following: “Experts say the underground secondary market where hackers buy and sell stolen…
