US government learning how to hack video game consoles

4-11-2012 Washington DC:

The US Department of Homeland Security is out to hack video game consoles, such as Xboxes, Wiis and PlayStations.

According to Foreign Policy, the US Navy has just awarded a $177,237 sole-source research contract to Obscure Technologies, a computer forensics company, to figure out how to hack the encryption that protects personal data on the consoles.

What the feds want from the deal, according to the contract with the US Navy: "hardware and software tools that can be used for extracting data from video game systems" and "a collection of data (disk images; flash memory dumps; configuration settings) extracted from new video game systems and used game systems purchased on the secondary market." ..For the remainder of this story: by Lisa Vaas

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