In 2013, documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the CIA and other intelligence services had been monitoring digital gaming worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life by creating fake characters, then using them to glean information and recruit potential informers. “Subliminal channels are near-impossible to prevent, and difficult to detect, since they can be based on anything where one user's actions affect another user.” “For example, two players that are playing a game together can use actions in the game to communicate information one player going left or right to signal a direction, or specifying a number by exchanging that amount of money as part of the game,” Katz told VOA.
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But Jonathan Katz, director of the University of Maryland’s Cybersecurity Center, says there are also “subliminal channels” that PS4 players can use to communicate with each other. Users can also talk to each other using the “Voice Over Internet Protocol”, or VOIP, which brings another layer of digital obfuscation. There’s a messaging function that allows players to text one another, and Sony has not said publicly if there is any record kept of those texts. However, the PS4 may offer some security and privacy protections that have been previously overlooked.įor example, some communications on the PSN are encrypted, and users can communicate in a variety of ways. The leaders of terror groups like ISIS and al-Qaida learned long ago that some electronic communications, such as email or mobile phone conversations, are inherently insecure and expose them to government surveillance. Using PS4, gamers can join together to play all sorts of games, giving players around the world the chance to message, talk, or otherwise interact with each other in real time. The PlayStation 4, or PS4 for short, is the world’s most popular gaming platform, which connects 110 million users together via Sony’s proprietary PSN digital network accessed via the Internet. Now, some investigators are pointing the finger at an unlikely target: an electronic gaming system made by Sony. As the international hunt for those behind the Paris terror attacks expands, investigators are trying to figure out how the ISIS terrorists were able to communicate and coordinate the assaults.
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