$177,000 contract with Obscure Technologies of San Rafael, Calif., is being executed by the U.S. Navy on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security. The government argues that both pedophiles and terrorists are using communication modes available only through video game systems to lure in children and plot possible attacks. Currently video game platform largely rely on heavy-duty encryption to keep any sort of person-to-person correspondence made through their systems hard to uncover, but the government wants a way to dig deeper.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/04/homeland-security-hacking-into-gaming.html