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Your original Xbox is no longer a safe place to store kiddie porn
Dexter345 \| 6:56 PM on 05.05.2009	20 comments

...Or any other so-called "illicit materials."

A computer scientist named David Collins at Sam Houston State University has developed a tool that would allow investigators to easily extract data from an Xbox hard drive for use in criminal investigations. Apparently, some people hide incriminating evidence in game systems in hopes that only searches on PCs would be conducted.

It's actually a little surprising that this is coming out now, for a few reasons. First, I didn't think it was terribly difficult to search game hard drives, even though, in the case of the original Xbox, the hard drive isn't easily removed. Secondly, and possibly more pertinently, this tool is just coming out for a game system that is more than seven years old. Wouldn't the people who are savvy enough to hide illicit materials in their game systems be a little more up on the technology? Is anybody actually hiding unsavory data in an original Xbox?

Still, it's a step in the right direction, and while I feel like it would be more useful to have these tools for the current generation of consoles, if it helps catch just one criminal in its current state, then it's worth it. What do you think?

[via Science Daily]

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20 comments | showing # 1 to 20

Hamza CTZ Aziz says:
(# 0) on 05/05/2009 19:50

Time to mod my GameCube to hide my external harddrives full of ... cats. Pictures of cats. Yup, sexy sexy cats.

Atlas says:
(# 1) on 05/05/2009 20:04

Pfff..... child porn...

The Xbox was big enough to get a REAL child inside. What ever happened to doing that?

Xelotath says:
(# 2) on 05/05/2009 20:15

It's probably because the Xbox is a popular media center. Pedophiles need to watch their porn on their big screen too you know. More seriously, this is a good thing and I hope some of those fuckers will get caught because of it.

Takeshi says:
(# 3) on 05/05/2009 20:29

Oh the things I stored on my Lynx...

Puppy Licks says:
(# 4) on 05/05/2009 20:39

OH FUCK!!

*throws xbox into microwave*

HikariOblivion says:
(# 5) on 05/05/2009 21:15

You'd think they'd do it on a DS flashcard and a microSD card. In worst case scenarios, you can swallow that little card! Or stick it in your bellybutton, or put it in a special piece of jewelery for your more unsavory piercings.

smurfee mcgee says:
(# 6) on 05/05/2009 21:33

lol @ puppy licks. If you can fit an Xbox in your microwave, it must be pretty fuckin big.

king3vbo says:
(# 7) on 05/05/2009 22:12

Oh shit.....

The-Excel says:
(# 8) on 05/05/2009 22:38

Big deal. If you're clever enough, you could have been FTPing in and out of the Xbox drive for years now.

RAB says:
(# 9) on 05/05/2009 23:28

they'll never find the snuff vids on my gameboy pocket

Puppy Licks says:
(# 10) on 05/05/2009 23:37

IT DOESN'T FIT!!!

I'M SO FUCKED!!!!

the GAMEGOBLIN says:
(# 11) on 05/05/2009 23:43

I have a super sweet Tifa blowjob vid on my original xbox, yall should check it out

RAB says:
(# 12) on 05/05/2009 23:46

if your talking about the same tifa vid im thinking of, you need better pronz. that vid is the suxorz

TheToiletDuck says:
(# 13) on 05/06/2009 07:55

Hmm, i best hide my Atari 2600

BluDesign says:
(# 14) on 05/06/2009 09:22

But... I keep my pr0n on my Dreamcast... I don't want to destroy my Dreamcast... I'm so conflicted. :(

HarassmentPanda says:
(# 15) on 05/06/2009 10:48

I'm sure it was developed for the original Xbox due to the ease with which you can modify and FTP into the system. While I'm sure kiddie porn is an issue, I see this being used more for evidence against copyright infringers.

Dexter345 says:
(# 16) on 05/06/2009 11:20

Oh Panda, your legal advice makes all the girls swoon.

GENACON says:
(# 17) on 05/06/2009 13:03

I thought people stored their porn on iphones and the like these days.

You know, so they can fap and listen to tunes at the same time.

Portable porn is all the rage!

DaedHead8 says:
(# 18) on 05/06/2009 13:16

Who stores porn anymore? I just look at all the porn that is stored for me on the internet.

Aziel13 says:
(# 19) on 05/06/2009 14:15

@Hamza: can i haz sexy cats too?

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