The U.S. Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center (C3) has begun using Sony consoles running Linux to solve child pornography cases. C3 needs the processing power of about $11,000 worth of computers, which is now being provided by a network of PS3 consoles at a quarter of the cost.Though they aren’t using the new PS3 Slim (since you can’t install Linux on the new models) purchasing 20 old PS3 units is still about $8,000 cheaper than the Dell servers C3 had used previously.