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PSP: Tool of Next-Generation Terrorists?
Filed in archive Mobile by jeff goldman on August 25, 2006
PSP: Tool of Next-Generation Terrorists?

PSP 3D's Robert A. wins the paranoia-of-the-day award for his suggestion that the PSP is the ideal tool for "infiltrating top-secret clearance level data at some of the US's most prestigious intelligence agencies."


"The PSP has all the prerequisites," Robert suggests. "If homebrew programs can be made to emulate Nintendo 64, send phone calls, utilize GPS protocols, and more, with the measily, yet powerful 333 MHz CPU, what's stopping terrorists and malicious individuals from sending a child, armed with a PSP bearing a homebrew password brute forcer, to walk by the FBI Edgar Hoover building in Washington D.C. (whose wireless networks reach the public sidewalk alongside the building), and gather data which could be used to thwart the government which protects us?"


To his credit, Robert backs up his paranoia with a story about playing Tekken: Dark Resurrection on his PSP while parked on Constitution Avenue, and getting approached by a police officer. "I explained ... that I was early heading to a nightclub, and wanted to feed my addiction to a new game I had just bought," Robert writes. "He didn't buy it. Not one bit at that."


Instead, Robert got patted down, handcuffed, and forced to sit on the curb as the cop examined his car.


The lesson he learned from that experience, Robert says, was that "there is really nothing stopping anyone with malicious intent to be in my exact same position that night, utilizing a homebrew password decrypter/brute forcer/MD5 decryptor/mini-rainbow table setup/wireless bomb detonator rather than playing Tekken."


"A portable device equipped with wireless capabilities and the ability to launch custom, unsigned code, coupled with a small form factor is capable of anything," Robert writes. "The terrorists and hackers of the next generation could be simply walking down the street and hacking away, using their concealed PSP to port scan and find a way to penetrate a victim's wireless network, and essentially, gather sensitive information."




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