Pokémon GO's hold on mobile phone users shows little sign of weakening, so much so that workers at the Pentagon are being told they're not allowed to use the app when on the premises.
The move follows concerns that the game could potentially used to spy on activities within the facility, which houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
According to The Washington Post:
A memorandum sent July 19 warned all officials and defense contractors that playing Pokemon Go poses a potential a security risk to secure and sensitive facilities.
Pentagon security officials are concerned the data obtained playing the game could provide pinpoint accuracy on the locations of rooms and other sensitive facilities where secrets are stored.
This isn't the first time that Niantic's app has been in hot water with the US Defense Department. Shortly after launch a Gym which existed on the Pentagon site was removed.
[source washingtontimes.com]
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No way...
Pentagon ?
How about banning personnel from playing any games at work?
Pokemon Snap has been announced for Virtual Console
they're holding pokemon of mass destruction.
Totally makes sense seeing how much sensitive content in probably in the pentagon. The last thing the United States wants is for someone to break in and find the exact location of something confidential because of a mobile game.
@Tsurii
I don't think so. Even common thing like Scissors for example, can be double-edged. One side can cut for make craft, cutting the clothes, the hair, etc. But the other side, it can be a weapon to kill someone. And after scissors being used for bad purpose, are you will gonna say "Oh! Scissors is so evil. Don't ever use it. It can kill people!" ? (Duh...!)
Same case with Pokemon GO. If people can't control themself not to risk their life just ONLY for rare Pokemons, their brain are dead maybe. Due that situation, some people use that to provoke about Pokemon GO or Pokemon games as an Evil games that can rotten your brain or make people addicted too much.
Duh...! That's a Fat Big Lie.
Overall, if the gamer can't control themself , better they should NEVER be a gamer. Save your precious life.
"Pentagon security officials are concerned the data obtained playing the game could provide pinpoint accuracy on the locations of rooms and other sensitive facilities where secrets are stored."
Or the bathrooms...
Good, I wouldn't want people who's in charge of protecting my county to be distracted 😉
I mean, just carrying your smartphone in the building is potential security risk but I see where they're coming from
"Pentagon security officials are concerned the data obtained playing the game could provide pinpoint accuracy on the locations of rooms and other sensitive facilities where secrets are stored."
So they are hiding Mewtwo in there huh?
I knew it. The Pentagon is secretly creating Mewthree, and they're afraid Pokemon GO players will discover it and try to catch it!
It probably has to do with the whole "capturing real world images all over the world" theory. I had a friend going on about this.
I'm not approving nor denying it, as I have no arguments on it.
Yet, I think their decision makes sense
Lol. They needed a memorandum to get that?
I understand that some people are utterly addicted to this game, but really, playing Pokemon in the Pentagon, during work?! How stupid are those people?
Your tax $$ at work people.
Pokemon Go is a phenomenon.
This is the smartest thing I've seen from the U.S. government in over 10 years.
I don't even mean this as a knock, either. It should be obvious that you don't want a bunch of people with camera-enabled miniature computers in or around the National Department of Defense building accessing public wi-fi, claiming to be catching invisible monsters. That is a security disaster waiting to happen on at least 5 different levels, only one of which was publicly specified. I didn't even know commercial smartphones were allowed in the Pentagon. That fact alone is far more worrying to me than knowing whether or not the Men in Black get to catch Mewtwo during their hour-long lunch breaks.
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