Authorities have discovered that the militants who carried out the recent attacks in Paris may have discussed and planned the seige using the most popular gaming console in the world; Sony's PlayStation 4.

Eight of the terrorists were killed by security officers after the attack on Friday night, but their accomplices may still be at large. There have been multiple raids in nearby Brussels as authorities dig into the roots of the nefarious plot. Investigators reportedly found evidence including at least one PlayStation 4 console.

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According Belgian federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon, PlayStation 4 was used by the ISIS agents to communicate. Jambon added that PS4 was selected by the terrorists due to the fact that the system is notoriously hard to monitor. He explained that PS4 is even more difficult to keep track of than WhatsApp.

Forbes reported that the new generation console is too light on privacy. Peripherals like PlayStation's Camera and Microsoft Kinect have the ability to spy on users. It is possible that someday, the government may have a window into user's living room using this technology.

It is still not proven whether the Paris attackers really used PS4 to communicate and plan the bloody raid. But there are some speculations that  the terrorist sent messages through the PlayStation Network (PSN) online gaming service or did a voice-chat while playing a specific game. This idea was supported by a leaked document from Edward Snowden in 2013. He revealed that CIA and NSA actually embedded themselves in games like World of Warcraft to break into virtual terrorist meet-ups.

The PlayStation Network had around 110 million users worldwide and 65 million of this users are active, making it a very difficult to identify the suspects. Government agencies can create profiles of suspected terrorists based on their Internet or communication history, but it is much harder to profile someone based on console usage, if that data is even accessible.

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