“PlayStation 4 is even more hard to keep track of than WhatsApp”, the popular instant messaging app for smartphones.
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Police in Belgium reportedly seized at least one PlayStation 4 console during anti-terror raids in Brussels, and the country’s federal home affairs minister directly referred to the console when discussing how the terrorists could have communicated.
Jambon also warned of the growing use of the PlayStation 4 gaming console by terror groups.
Another reason why using gaming as a sort of criminal communication system was raised is the plethora of war-related games on the market, where military strategies formed between party members are as common as grass.
The surveillance community has long asserted that video games and consoles can be a safe haven for terrorists.
PlayStation 4 may have helped Paris attackers communicate during the planning and possibly during the attacks themselves, according to reports.
“While the idea is certainly Orwellian, it’s the non-peripheral based communication on consoles which may provide terrorists a channel to effectively converse with one another”.
The horrific attacks that took place on Friday night in Paris still shake the world today.
Earlier this year, a 14-year-old Turkish national boy from Austria was handed a two-year jail sentence for downloading a bomb-making guide onto his PlayStation 4 console. When Edward Snowden leaked the NSA’s documents, an initiative for close monitoring of in-game discussions was also brought to light, as it was believed that terrorists used games such was World of Warcraft to communicate.
TERRORISTS plotting the deadly attacks in Paris could have used encrypted messages sent from games consoles to make their plans, it has been suggested. “A player in Call Of Duty could shoot at a wall and write a disappearing message in bullets to another player”, the website reported.
But, the reports that PlayStation 4s may have been used are speculation at this stage, and there has been no confirmation of this by authorities investigating the terrorist attacks.
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This gruesome attack was carried out by the terrorist group called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in response to the intervention in Syria.
