• US government(Navy) hires company to hack into video game consoles
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[quote]The U.S. government recently posted a project asking for the “Development of Tools for Extracting Information from Video Game Systems.” The listing was posted just two months ago, and last week a contract was signed with the California-based company Obscure Technologies. The U.S. is paying $177,237.50 for the job. The U.S. Navy says it is looking to hack into used consoles to extract any sensitive information exchanged through their messaging services. 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 “US persons.” Here’s the official description from the U.S. Navy listing, posted on February 15: “This project involves furnishing video game systems, both new and used, and creating prototype rigs for capturing data from the video game systems.” Obscure Technologies responded three days later. Even better is the description from the actual contract from the Federal Business Opportunites website, posted on March 26: “R & D effort for the development and delivery of computer forensic tools for analyzing network traffic and stored data created during the use of video game systems.” The Statement of Work document (doc) gives more insight into what the project is all about. Obscure Technologies will have to perform the following online monitoring tasks: Provide monitoring for 6 new video game systems, a maximum of 2 of any type from any given vendor. Generate clean data (data that does not contain any identifiable information from real people) from new video game systems. Design a prototype rig for capturing data from new video game systems. Implement the prototype rig on the new video game systems. Provide data captured by the prototype rig in the following formats: Packets shall be delivered in PCAP format, Disk images shall be delivered in E01/EWF format. Write a final report, between 10 and 20 pages, to include details of work performed, the engineering approach used and the reason why, any engineering decisions that were made and why, what work remains to be done, and any failings of the approaches followed. It will also be required to implement the following offline monitoring tasks: Provide used video games systems purchased on the open market. Used systems provided shall be likely to contain data from previous users. Extend tool development to implement creating signatures over sections. Survey console chat room technology and identify potential chokepoints where data may be committed to storage. Identify data storage points on used video game systems and attempt to demonstrate proof of concept. Extract real data from used video game systems. Provide data captured from used video game systems in the following formats: Packets shall be delivered in PCAP format, Disk images shall be delivered in E01/EWF format. Provide video game system extraction software and/or hardware. Write a final report, between 10 and 20 pages, to include details of work performed, the engineering approach used and the reason why, any engineering decisions that were made and why, what work remains to be done, and any failings of the approaches followed. Obscure Technologies was chosen because it “is the only US company that appears to offer the purchasing of used computer equipment for access to the contained information as a commercial service,” according to the Contracting Activity document (docx). The company also has “substantial experience in working with such systems” including a “lead scientist having previously reverse engineered the Microsoft Xbox.” Leveraging content on video game consoles to watch and understand what citizens are up to isn’t a exactly a new idea. Gaming studios and academic minds have been tracking gamers for a long time: the former typically want to know how customers use their products while the latter often use the findings for psychological research.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/us-government-hires-company-to-hack-into-video-game-consoles/11395[/url]
Even if they could pull it off, what gives them the right to monitor people outside US jurisdiction and not even use it against their own US civilians god the US government is retarded
Oh, yeah right. They want to spy on people overseas. What a load of bologne If anything at all, they'll do something to let the companies willingly give access to said data for "security reasons"
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Because of all those underground overseas terrorist groups that communicate only via xbox live party chat.
I wonder how they plan on doing it, Microsoft isn't going to take someone tapping into their network lightly. Maybe it only applies to game systems that are found in raids on enemy locations? Some of our shadier enemies do communicate through unusual channels like Xbox Live of PSN. I just don't see how the online monitoring portion is going to work though.
[QUOTE=aaro1450;35483197]Because of all those underground overseas terrorist groups that communicate only via xbox live party chat.[/QUOTE] "I'm planting the bomb, cover me!"
[QUOTE=mr apple;35482969]Even if they could pull it off, what gives them the right to monitor people outside US jurisdiction and not even use it against their own US civilians god the US government is retarded[/QUOTE] For such purpose they will have to establish Black Ops DUNN DUNNNNNNNN
Could Sony or Microsoft actually sue the U.S. Government for willfully hacking into XBLA or the PSN? That doesn't exactly sound entirely legitimate and I don't think multinational corporations would just hand a government entity the keys to their networks.
Wait, is this in response to that one article a while back about terrorists using XBox live or something to communicate? Oh god.
"Gentlemen, we will find our new candidate for the super soldier serum with my plan. In a year from now, we will have the most efficient killer upgraded to be indestructible! And how are we gonna find him? Through collecting information from all over the consoles in the world to find out who has the best statistics! And here he is! Thomas Kidpoo, also known as WEED4LYF[MLG]XxxPR0SH0T-360xxX, 13 years old... The future of war lies in this young man's hands!" [editline]8th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35483710]Could Sony or Microsoft actually sue the U.S. Government for willfully hacking into XBLA or the PSN? That doesn't exactly sound entirely legitimate and I don't think multinational corporations would just hand a government entity the keys to their networks.[/QUOTE] I wish Sony would do it. Their in such bad shape after all the shit they went through.
Seriously all they're going to discover is how many people on XBL play games while stoned.
get back to duct taping ps3s together
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They're just trying to figure out how to extract a terrorist's evidence from a game console without having to get to level 30 of Prince of Persia first. [video=youtube;HFfJ4ZC1AtA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFfJ4ZC1AtA[/video]
[QUOTE=Key_in_skillee;35484013]They're just trying to figure out how to extract a terrorist's evidence from a game console without having to get to level 30 of Prince of Persia first. [video=youtube;HFfJ4ZC1AtA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFfJ4ZC1AtA[/video][/QUOTE] he probably makes a shitload of money as an investigator but lives with his mother HOW
[QUOTE=Key_in_skillee;35484013]They're just trying to figure out how to extract a terrorist's evidence from a game console without having to get to level 30 of Prince of Persia first. [video=youtube;HFfJ4ZC1AtA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFfJ4ZC1AtA[/video][/QUOTE] After seeing something this stupid, I think im gonna go crawl into a hole and kill myself now. :suicide:
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35483710]Could Sony or Microsoft actually sue the U.S. Government for willfully hacking into XBLA or the PSN? That doesn't exactly sound entirely legitimate and I don't think multinational corporations would just hand a government entity the keys to their networks.[/QUOTE] You can't sue the US Gov unless they let you.
[QUOTE=ggbaddies1;35483904]get back to duct taping ps3s together[/QUOTE] Wasn't that Air Force?
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