Hacking Wireless Networks With The PSP
One doesn't often associate a child bearing a portable gaming console
as a potential hacker, or, worse, a terrorist. We often disregard the
PSP as a multimedia tool sincerely used for promoting happiness:
watching movies, playing games, and listening to music. But how about
using it for infiltrating top-secret clearance level data at some of
the US's most prestigous intelligence agencies? The PSP has all the
prerequisites. 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. (who's wireless networks reach the public sidewalk
alongside the building), and gather data which could be used to thwart
the government which protects us? Is this one of the reasons why Sony
wants to stop homebrew? There are so many possibilities.
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