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Bryank75 on 15 November 2015
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thranx said:
Eikichi134 said:
GamechaserBE said:


If it was just blame video games I would agree but it is a bit more:

Belgian federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon said  that the PS4 is used by ISIS agents to communicate, and was selected due to the fact that it’s notoriously hard to monitor. “The thing that keeps me awake at night is the guy behind his computer, looking for messages from [the Islamic State]and other hate preachers,” Jambon said last Friday, according to Brussels weekly, the Bulletin. “PlayStation 4 is even more difficult to keep track of than WhatsApp.”

PlayStation’s IP-based voice systems are difficult to monitor compared to traditional forms of communication such as mobile phones and computers. And terrorists could send messages to each other within PlayStation games without speaking or typing a word. 

Without speaking or typing a word? Does he think us PS gamers have some kind of telepathic link with each other?

No. He thinks you guys have a peer to peer link with each other that is harder to track than normal cell phone use. Think that is what he stated isn't it? or was that part not legible? Perhaps they use the many other options of cummunicating in game that dont invovle typing or talking. I know I have never had to type or talk in a multiplayer game and can still use the in game gesters of most characters to communicate something. But what he is highlighting more is the fact that peer to peer communication is harder to track. PS4 is probably being used because it has been released in more countries world wide, and is cheaper than xbxox one and is more poplular in europe and the rest of the world than other psosible peer to peer video games systems. But hey who cares, this is a games forum and we must see that this is an attaack on sony, not someone stating what they ahve found in their job trying to help others.


I think the question here is: why not a PS3? There are no fees for playing online to use communication as mentioned in the article and there are also more PS3s in the wild and it is cheaper. Maybe, just maybe he had a hobby?