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U.S. Government Hires Company To Hack Into Video Game Consoles

Posted by timothy on from the free-play-guys-look-into-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. Navy is paying a company six figures to hack into used video game consoles and extract sensitive information. The tasks to be completed are for both offline and online data. The organization says it will only use the technology on consoles belonging to nations overseas, because the law doesn't allow it to be used on any 'U.S. persons.'" Should be a doddle.

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  1. Sensitive information? by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're looking for the high scores of Taliban insurgents or what?

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    1. Re:Sensitive information? by AngryDeuce · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Yeah that's what I'm wondering. What useful information could be gleaned from a game console? Do they think that the terrorists are using Xbox Live and PSN to communicate now or what? How would that be any more beneficial than the plethora of pre-paid cell phones out there that cost next to nothing and can be tossed regularly?

  2. Re:They can hack my original game boy and SNES. by AngryDeuce · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess I'd better hide my copy of Custer's Revenge, otherwise I could be on a one way ticket to Gitmo...

  3. Uh, yeah... by Higgins_Boson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because the law doesn't allow it to be used on any 'U.S. persons.'

    As if that ever stopped them before. **rolls eyes**

  4. Re:I was thinking a late April Fools joke. by gstrickler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry for the delay, but military bureaucracy means it takes a while to get all the forms approved before posting AF jokes.

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