PARIS ATTACKS: Playstation may have been used to plot attacks

Islamic State (IS) terrorists plotting the Paris attacks could have used encrypted messages sent from games consoles to make their plans, it has been suggested.

Police in Belgium reportedly seized at least one PlayStation 4 console during anti-terror raids in Brussels, and the country’s federal home affairs minister directly referred to the console when discussing how the terrorists could have communicated.

The Sony games console’s PlayStation Network (PSN) has encrypted text and voice communication capability, and security experts have suggested that, with investigators prioritising more traditional means of communication, including email and phone calls, messages passed between games consoles are harder to spot and could have gone undetected.