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Source: https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/...t-d-autres-gros-jeux-en-ligne-3050812693.htmlAn internship offer published by the Ministry of the Armed Forces highlights the interest of the DGSE, the French foreign intelligence service, for video games and more exactly for the diversion of its modes of communication that some of its users can make in order to transmit information in a hidden way.
"More and more people are using online video games to divert their original use, because the means of communication available in these games are used furtively to exchange specific information. The Ministry of Armed Forces is interested in these technologies and associated protocols, " says the description of the offer (which online address specifically highlghts the Fortnite title) which was first published by the professional publication Intelligence Online.
The candidate should hold a graduate degree and skills in software vulnerabilities and programming languages, and will intervene on three possible missions. The first is to map the most popular connected video games (the titles mentioned are PUBG, Fortnite, League of Legends, Counter-Strike and World of Warcraft) to determine the profile of those games (market share, estimated number of players, potential vulnerabilities). The second step is to select one or two games from the most promising profiles in order to reverse engineer (determine the internal workings) and to extract their network signatures.
Finally, the role of the trainee will be to find and exploit flaws, which Le Monde interprets as the possibility for the DGSE to access the content of discussions between players. "It is possible that the DGSE is already able to penetrate the discussion channels of some video games," says Le Monde, according to which this offer is probably also a way to strengthen its workforce in terms of specialists in computer security, a particularly targeted profile in the context of hirings planned for 2019.