ZDNet UK: Old Game Machine Turned into Linux Hacker Tool

“Sega’s defunct Dreamcast gaming console, which has long since
stopped rolling off the manufacturing lines, has gained a
surprising new lease on life.

“Two security researchers on Friday showed attendees at the
Defcon hacking conference here how to reuse the small off-white
boxes as stealthy network monitoring devices.

“‘When you only have a few minutes, you need to be able to drop
something off that will let you access the network later,’ Aaron
Higbee, a consultant with Foundstone and one of the two programmers
who worked on the project, said of the Dreamcast consoles…”

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