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Hey, You Should Read This: Sony Responds to Congress
Hackers are hackers. None of them can be trusted.
I hope they're all caught and consequently abused in jail. All of them.
" @Tesla said:except for neither of them would hack anything that isnt the gibson. PSN is sort of a step down dont you think? lolZero Cool. ^^ "" This looks like the work of one Crash Override. "
" Why is it just the US legal system doing stuff about this? Last time I checked this affected the entire world. "I'm guessing my fellow European countries are just plain lazy?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that pretty much the only thing that we can confirm about the hackers is that they ARE, beyond a shadow of a doubt, anonymous.
Finally, someone makes a classy reference instead of just stupid Hackers jokes." Sony better prop up some military AI into their ICE so even a Kuang grade virus can't infiltrate it. "
Also Anonymous does usually take responsibility for the stupid shit that they do, but maybe if they thought that they might actually get some significant authority's attention and actually catch some heat they might deny it. Or it could be the real perp figured to plant it since Anonymous publicly declared war a while back.
Who knows? Hackers who lie? That's just crazy.
I personally believe that anonops had nothing to do with this. Granted, I could hack someone and say it was anonymous, because that is technically what I would be. Either way, it really isn't difficult for anyone to have planted that file into the system, or even Sony could have done it when they were asked "who do you think did it?"
" It's too bad Sony didn't make this same information available to its 77 million consumers. "
But they did! They couldn't rush out with information that wasn't verified. It was very important that they were careful what they said. Nothing could have satisfied all you mongers. Stop blaming Sony and blame the hackers FFS.
All of it is Somy's fault. 100%. If credit card information was part of the data, it's just about the worst thing that could happen to them. It's disgusting that even billing addresses and emails have gotten out in the open because of this security issue.
Either they didn't offer a secure service or they failed to compensate for the possibility that they would get reamed like this. Lose-lose for them.
I hope we get some indictments and arrests out of this case. It's gonna be funny watching these hackers realize they can't hide behind the internet.
Jesus, Sony. Do you believe everything you read? Why would they claim no responsibility for the attack, then leave a note inside their servers saying it was them? It's not like they run any risk of being found under the name "Anonymous" so why the hell would they say they didn't have a part of it?
You all are so dramatic. Don't worry about your information, that isn't what they were after. This was all done to make Sony look bad. Sony just found out it really was ANON who did it. They have no interest in your CC numbers.
Sigh. People, don't jump the gun just yet. If I were some criminal fishing for personal data and credit card numbers for a company recently DDoS'd by Anonymous, I'd put a file in there leading Sony to believe it was Anonymous too - it would throw people off the scent. But, you know, that plan would be stupid, because they wouldn't ever use that as evidence, and they won't use it to find the criminal. It would be unbecoming of someone who was educated enough in breaking into a giant company's databases.
" Sigh. People, don't jump the gun just yet. If I were some criminal fishing for personal data and credit card numbers for a company recently DDoS'd by Anonymous, I'd put a file in there leading Sony to believe it was Anonymous too - it would throw people off the scent. But, you know, that plan would be stupid, because they wouldn't ever use that as evidence, and they won't use it to find the criminal. It would be unbecoming of someone who was educated enough in breaking into a giant company's databases.Exactly this, why would anonymous do this without informing people about this? They are proud of being the "internet hate machine" because they do not fear to be public about this things. This just goes AGAINST, everything anonymous "stands" for. So yeah... I don't think it was them. Also, I browse 4chan from time to time to find more info about this things but there is NOTHING about PSN attacks in there..."Meaning the file in question is completely neutral in assessing who or what organization did this thing.
If anyone really believes Anonymous had anything to do with it, I bet they also believe the Moon landings were faked. Sony just picked on Anonymous because of the Goehot deal. I highly doubt that with all their combined experience that Anonymous would do something as noobish as leaving a file on the server
Because if someone broke into my home and left a note that said "Jeff Gerstmann was here," clearly it had to have been Jeff, right?
" Just because they found a file named Anonymous doesn't have to mean they were really behind it, right? I mean the hackers could have put that there to mislead them.@Kjellm87 said:Or maybe they didn't, but it's possible..."
" While I'm not a fan of this "Anonymous", I think that file seems a little too perfect. There could be someone else who puts the blame on them. "This was my first reaction as well, although idk if anonymous always works as a group or if there could be a couple rogues.
If they still had Linux support none of this would have ever happened.
God damnit! Why did Jeff do such a thing?!" Because if someone broke into my home and left a note that said "Jeff Gerstmann was here," clearly it had to have been Jeff, right? "
" @ajamafalous said:Hey man, don't ask me. All I know is that he did it, and that he should be ashamed.God damnit! Why did Jeff do such a thing?! "" Because if someone broke into my home and left a note that said "Jeff Gerstmann was here," clearly it had to have been Jeff, right? "
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