Probably for the reason the author speculates about in the article: > For example, would it not be cool if there was a game with a stack buffer overflow bug th

Probably for the reason the author speculates about in the article: > For example, would it not be cool if there was a game with a stack buffer overflow bug that allowed us to run arbitrary code remotely? That could potentially enable us to softmod an Xbox over the network, without the need of any special hardware.