[AusNOG] Telstra's Texan Teaser - Tin Foil Stetsun anyone?

[Serge Malev]

>From a SANS NewsBites article from April 2012.
An example of how much US respect privacy of non-US citizens. Summary: not at all.




 --US Dept. of
Homeland Security Awards Contract for Gaming Console Hack

(April 9, 2012)

The US Department of Homeland security (DHS) has awarded
a California

company a contract worth nearly US $180,000 to develop a
tool that can

harvest data from gaming consoles, like the Xbox 360,
Wii, and

PlayStation 3. Obscure technologies won the contract and
will develop

hardware and software tools to perform the functions, the
company will

also have to purchase gaming consoles from outside the US
to see  what

data left behind by former users can be harvested. DHS
plans to use the

technology only on devices owned by people outside the
US; the research

is aimed at targeting pedophiles and terrorists who
communicate through

the consoles.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/game-console-hack/

http://rt.com/usa/news/dhs-crack-video-game-624/

[Editor's Note (Honan): The Wired article quotes Simson
Garfinkel, a

computer science professor associated with the project,
as saying "We

do not wish to work with data regarding U.S. persons due
to Privacy Act

considerations. If we find data on U.S. citizens in
consoles purchased

overseas, we remove the data from our corpus."  Mr. Garfinkel should be

made aware that the European Union has even stricter
privacy laws which

they will also need to respect.]

 



 		 	   		  
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