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Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4 (qz.com)
bricko writes with story at Quartz reporting the words of Belgium's home affairs minister Jan Jambon, who says that ISIL operators communicate using their PlayStation 4s; "which allows terrorists to communicate with each other and is difficult for the authorities to monitor. 'PlayStation 4 is even more difficult to keep track of than WhatsApp,' he said. The gaming console also was implicated in ISIL's plans back in June, when an Austrian teen was arrested for downloading bomb plans to his PS4." This seems a strange place to concentrate investigators' energies; terrrorists could be communicating in the chat session on the side of many social media games, too, or by any number of other means; Jambon would do well to read through some of the movie plotlines that Bruce Schneier has gathered.
We should ban all communication devices that terrorists might use, including pigeons
He is pretending to be ignorant and incompetent to give the terrorists a false sense of security.
That, or maybe he is simply Belgian.
You're far more likely to die by slipping in your bathtub.
That's because your bathtub is designed by terrorists
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I'm not saying it's true, but for a modern shooter or perhaps FPS, they could simply substitute "game" targets for real-life ones, and otherwise the conversation might sound much you would hear in some games.
Heh. I've never heard anyone use in-game chat like that. The closest I've ever encountered was someone strategizing how to violate another player's mother.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Indeed. The French have perfected a method for reducing - or even totally avoiding - this risk.
According to the Australians, the Brits aren't far behind.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."