The PlayStation 2 or PS2 was released in Japan on March 4, 2000 to tremendous success, and when it did, it was considered by many to be the most powerful console, prompting fears that it could be used for activities such as terrorism.
The fact is that according to the newspaper The Nihon Keizai Shimbunthe Ministry of Commerce of Japan decided to impose limits on the export of the console to some countries.
Specifically, to North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Libya, nations that came to be attributed with promoting terrorism worldwide.
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In those years it came to be thought that the graphics processing unit or GPU of the console, as well as other components, could be used for military purposes.
Certainly the PS2 was powerful but it’s hard to conceive of it being used for terrorism. At Sony they made it clear years ago.
Benjamin Guernsey, a spokesman for SCE, commented in 2000 that the console was a product of ‘controlled export’. All due to its technical characteristics that exceeded the established guidelines.
But he also stressed that it was not ‘[…]necessarily because they fear that it will be diverted to military or terrorist use’. Just for exceeding certain standards; to export more units an export control license was required.
The fear of using the PS2 for terrorism, was it an urban legend?
Surely some may wonder if the PS2 was actually used in terrorism or not. Since that time there has never been any indication that this was the case.
There were news reports that the late Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, was buying PS2s to use their components for missiles.
But all of them, according to GameRant, turned out to be false; no one thought of using the consoles for military purposes.
The PS4 also had a similar accusation but because its chat was used by the terrorists responsible for the November 2015 attack in Paris, France.
But on that occasion, according to Eurogamer, it was due to the use of system software, not its components. We do not deny that someone thought to use the consoles for terrorism. However, it seems that it is more practical to resort to other options.
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