It appears Las Vegas Cyberpunks will be toting cheap game consoles on their utility belts this fall if they follow the lead of a pair of white hat hackers who demonstrated Wednesday how to turn the defunct Sega Dreamcast into a disposable attack box designed to be dropped like a bug on corporate networks during covert black bag jobs.

Apparently they take the Dreamcast with the special software cycles through the ports used for common services like SSH, Web surfing, and e-mail, which tend to be permitted by firewall configurations. Failing that, it tries getting “ping” packets out to the Internet, and finally looks for proxy servers bridging the network to the outside world.

Although may not be a positive note for the Dreamcast, its definately interesting news. The software is supposed to be released sometime next week.

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