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wraggster
April 8th, 2012, 22:27
The U.S. Navy is paying a company six figures to hack into used video game consoles and extract sensitive information (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/us-government-hires-company-to-hack-into-video-game-consoles/11395). 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.'"
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/08/1540206/us-government-hires-company-to-hack-into-video-game-consoles