The leadership of the Ministry of defense of the United States announced a ban on the territory of its facilities for the use of the popular mobile game Pokemon Go.
The Pentagon is concerned about the popularity of the app, and the ability of spying and collecting sensitive information. All employees of the Ministry warned in a special Memorandum on the prohibition on the game and risk to security. About it already wrote the Washington Times.
The potential threat of mobile game is to use GPS and the phone’s camera, with which real map “is supplemented by” moving figures cartoon characters-pokemon. Catch pokemon, the player earns points. The precision with which the fixed location of external objects, and dangerous. Cracking the profiles of the players, the hacker can obtain accurate data on the movement of a player, detailed surveying and other private information. In the case of military facilities, to collect foreign intelligence services may have critical consequences.
However, even without the threat of national security, the game has already established itself as potentially dangerous for the players. Based on the technology of “augmented reality”, she carries some gambling gamers that they lose all sense of time, and, absorbed in the process of catching pokemon, can be injured or become the victim of a robbery.
