According to a story first released on the Scripps Howard Foundation wire, Homeland Security's ICE department is using the gaming console to protect children and catch predators in real life.

"Bad guys are encrypting their stuff now, so we need a methodology of hacking on that to try to break passwords," said Claude E. Davenport, a senior special agent at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center, known as C3. "The PlayStation 3 -- its processing component -- is perfect for large-scale library attacks." READ MORE >>