Last month we featured an article that detailed Catastrophic Planning and Management Institute’s innovative disaster awareness project, “The Disaster Zone’. The Disaster Zone assists in planning and preparing for real disasters with virtual worlds via a Second Life simulation. Now it appears they won’t be alone in cyberspace disaster planning and preparedness. Pixels and Policy reports that the Department of Homeland Security may also be planning a virtual world of it’s own.
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I do not trust the DHS or this War on [some] Terror. I will not welcome a DHS invasion of my world or any assumption of control or that residents should accept their presence without complaint. I see the DHS as a far greater danger to liberty and safety than what actual terrorism exists.