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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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Hamza CTZ Aziz's Destructoid Blog
Time to mod my GameCube to hide my external harddrives full of ... cats. Pictures of cats. Yup, sexy sexy cats.
Atlas's Destructoid Blog
Pfff..... child porn...

The Xbox was big enough to get a REAL child inside. What ever happened to doing that?
Xelotath's Destructoid Blog
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's Destructoid Blog
Oh the things I stored on my Lynx...
Puppy Licks's Destructoid Blog
OH FUCK!!

*throws xbox into microwave*
HikariOblivion's Destructoid Blog
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's Destructoid Blog
lol @ puppy licks. If you can fit an Xbox in your microwave, it must be pretty fuckin big.
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
Oh shit.....
The-Excel's Destructoid Blog
Big deal. If you're clever enough, you could have been FTPing in and out of the Xbox drive for years now.
RAB's Destructoid Blog
they'll never find the snuff vids on my gameboy pocket
Puppy Licks's Destructoid Blog
IT DOESN'T FIT!!!

I'M SO FUCKED!!!!
the GAMEGOBLIN's Destructoid Blog
I have a super sweet Tifa blowjob vid on my original xbox, yall should check it out
RAB's Destructoid Blog
if your talking about the same tifa vid im thinking of, you need better pronz. that vid is the suxorz
TheToiletDuck's Destructoid Blog
Hmm, i best hide my Atari 2600
BluDesign's Destructoid Blog
But... I keep my pr0n on my Dreamcast... I don't want to destroy my Dreamcast... I'm so conflicted. :(
HarassmentPanda's Destructoid Blog
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's Destructoid Blog
Oh Panda, your legal advice makes all the girls swoon.
GENACON's Destructoid Blog
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's Destructoid Blog
Who stores porn anymore? I just look at all the porn that is stored for me on the internet.
Aziel13's Destructoid Blog
@Hamza: can i haz sexy cats too?


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