Foreign Gamers Beware...the US is watching you!

[Coded-Dude]

The gaming system that gives you hours of Mario Kart, Rock Band or Madden NFL fun is also being looked at by the Department of Homeland Security, which wants to see if it can pick passwords, credit card numbers, and other communications from the consoles. Wired reports DHS awarded a more than $177,000 contract to Obscure Technologies last week to develop a method to make gleaning this information from the systems possible — but only if they come from foreign sources:

The government says it plans to use the forensic tool only on systems owned by foreigners outside the U.S. and that the research is aimed at investigations of pedophiles who target victims through gaming systems, and terrorists, who DHS says may be using gaming consoles to communicate and plan their activities.

Given privacy issues of collecting information from devices gotten on U.S. soil, Simson Garfinkel, a computer science professor and expert at the Naval Postgraduate School, said that’s why the research will target systems purchased outside of the United States.

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[Pro A.]

Raise your hand if you are surprised by this. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Frye?......... Frye?

That's what I thought.

Didn't think the DHS and NSA would be this transparent about it, though. Good lord...

[Coded-Dude]

What startles me is their reasoning behind such things. Put your tinfoil hat on and tighten it up......they can and will abuse this, which means hacking into any and every console possible to gather as much data as possible. This just further shows the antic of giving up freedom for security is growing when they are this apparent about information gathering. Of course if you have nothing to hide why worry or protest.....just remember, it's for the children.

[Segitz]

Hacking into the consoles? Why? They already have backdoor access directly at Sony, MS and Nintendo (and Apple, and Google and...). It'd be more complex for them to hack into our consoles then to directly ask Facebook for the data.

And... am I surprised? Not at all...

[BahnNZ]

Yet another reason for you to cosy up with your Super Nintendo. It wouldn't spy on you.

[Coded-Dude]

they want live feed of your voice and text communications for faster processing into their database of terrorists and enemy combatants(oh and sexual predators)........plus it helps them better classify you via purchasing trends.



foreigners are NOT to be trusted i tell you! /sarcasm

[Gribble-Grunger]

hook this up with Kinect and PSEye:



is it that much of a stretch? maybe it once was, but now it's a possibility

[BahnNZ]

The CIA/FBI etc are aware that 911 was organized by a guy in a cave and carried out by a bunch of guys with box cutters right?

Spying on guys playing MW3 may not help.

[Smokey]

fucking america look after ya own country and stop sticking ya nose in eveyones buisness

[Viper]

I'm still pissed off at George Orwell for writing that government operations manual - 1984.

[D3adcell]

This is what our taxes are going too. This country is so fucked.

[Segitz]

It's not just yours... doesn't help to know that, though^^

[D3adcell]

It's not just yours... doesn't help to know that, though^^

Well the fact that people are so damn apethetic that they let this shit slide by and then act surprised when eventually the government is controlling everything and has power over the people, "Oh well, it's for our safety and well being" they will say. It's all just a scheme for them to get more power and control over the world. There is a terrorist under every bed and by God they are going to convince everyone that their privacy needs to be invaded to make them more secure. Eventually all who dissent against those in power will be labeled terrorists and taken out while the apathetic sheep are pleased to live their lives as long as they are able to stay intoxicated by substances regulated by the government, and media regulated by the rich cocksuckers controlling the government (people).

[Coded-Dude]

in other news...we're number 1!

[Viper]

'Merica...fuck yeah.



Our government is hooked in Spenditol.

[Segitz]

And Europe even has a higher GDP^^

The western world (including Europe) will selfdestruct soon... and the US is probably one of the first to do so.

[masteratt]

You know how America sees itself as the world police. Well, NWA's lyrics never rung truer: FUCK DA POLICE!


I feel your outrage too D3adcell but if someone asked me what I am doing about it, I would be going "<_<" because I'm not doing anything. Not loading the responsibility to you guys, but it really does feel like the change can only become from inside at the moment. So please, fix your shitty government. Shitty is even too light now, it's just indescribable and almost scary how bad they got.

The western world (including Europe) will selfdestruct soon... and the US is probably one of the first to do so.

I am feeling that too. But knowing the US they'll find a way to make someone else suffer for their mistakes.

[Smokey]

ya agree with your post mate

[Diresu]

The fact that this doesn't surprise me at all tells you just how much I expect from this government.

[masteratt]

They are milking this "to stop terrorism" shit for all it is worth. I wonder when it will run out. What is so hopeless though is they will think of a new 'thing' to step all over us with after it.

Fun world we live in.