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                "So have they told us what the free download is? 

                   

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" @chrissedoff said:

" what do you think guys, should i trust sony with my personal info and credit card number to take advantage of the wonderful benefits of playstation®plus such as "

Even if Sony has created the perfectly secure network for PSN, I'd say that taking extra precaution wouldn't hurt.  Make a new email address to use to sign up for PSN, and use a unique password for it.  Don't put your CC information on PSN; instead, buy PSN pre-paid cards from Amazon.com (when you buy a card, they just send you the code to redeem in your PSN wallet). "

" @CL60: In which past life did I kick you in the nuts? MY point was you're believing something here is not evidence to support. You say it might be stolen. There isn't evidence to suggest that. There is evidence to suggest that it wasn't stolen. You choose not to believe that it is safe and okay. There is no evidence that it was stolen, there is evidence that it was not stolen. You believe it may have been stolen in the face of evidence to the contrary. "

Think this will hurt any relationships with third-parties? (Look at how long it took them to get Valve & a few days after their game comes out the service goes down)

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

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                "So have they told us what the free download is? 

                   

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They said on the blog that it is region spesific. "

So have they told us what the free download is?  "

" @Vortexus1981 said:

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

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                "So have they told us what the free download is? 

                   

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They said on the blog that it is region spesific. "

What is it for U.S?  "

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                    @The_Laughing_Man said:

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                "So have they told us what the free download is? 

                   

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They said on the blog that it is region spesific.

                   

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What is it for U.S? 

                   

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Even after Sony is humiliated before the entire world, they still cling to their smug culture. You would think some measure of humility would set in.  "We shall bless you little people of the world with 30 days of Playstation Plus for free." As if somehow this makes up for their gross negligence. Sure Sony, I'll trust you with my personal data.

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

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                    @Vortexus1981 said:

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                    @The_Laughing_Man said:

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                "So have they told us what the free download is? 

                   

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They said on the blog that it is region spesific.

                   

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What is it for U.S? 

                   

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Each territory will be offering selected PlayStation entertainment content for free download. Specific details of this content will be announced in each region soon. "

They are talking about firewalls being like tunnels. Are they saying the hackers went through a series of tubes?

Free stuff for not being able to use a free service for a little while? Sure, why not. Gave me time to play other things like on my laptop and build a picnic table for mothers day to replace the rotting one.. Untill my account suddenly has *Unknown transactions* i will not be angry in the slightest at my *Info* being taken as it only takes 5minutes to go to my bank and tell them my info might have been compromised and i want a new card, done deal.

" Even after Sony is humiliated before the entire world, they still cling to their smug culture. You would think some measure of humility would set in.  "We shall bless you little people of the world with 30 days of Playstation Plus for free." As if somehow this makes up for their gross negligence. Sure Sony, I'll trust you with my personal data. "

" @Punk1984 said:

" @The_Laughing_Man: Sony just said there is no evidence of credit card numbers being accessed or of an customer damages related to the breach.

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They also just said they want you to throughly check their credit card statement, and check their purchase history, and change all of your passwords. It doesn't matter if they said theres no evidence, they still acknowledge that's it's a possibility.  "

" @CL60 said:

" @Punk1984 said:

" @The_Laughing_Man: Sony just said there is no evidence of credit card numbers being accessed or of an customer damages related to the breach.

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They also just said they want you to throughly check their credit card statement, and check their purchase history, and change all of your passwords. It doesn't matter if they said theres no evidence, they still acknowledge that's it's a possibility.  "

Me coming to your house and cock slapping you is also a possibility. Likelihood of it happening? Pretty slim. "

This whole "rebuilding trust" discussion makes me wonder what Sony is doing to rebuild developer's trust/faith in their platform.  Where's that jewish afro news guy when you need him?!

" @CL60 said:

" @Punk1984 said:

" @The_Laughing_Man: Sony just said there is no evidence of credit card numbers being accessed or of an customer damages related to the breach.

"

They also just said they want you to throughly check their credit card statement, and check their purchase history, and change all of your passwords. It doesn't matter if they said theres no evidence, they still acknowledge that's it's a possibility.  "

Me coming to your house and cock slapping you is also a possibility. Likelihood of it happening? Pretty slim. "

" @QuistisTrepe: What do you want them to do, not give anything? If I was a company like Sony I would try to give people something that appears it has value but in reality is going to make me money. When they give all PSN users free PS+ I'm sure a percentage of them will resubscribe. If this happened to Microsoft they would give out free Xbox Live Gold time. If this happened to WOW they would give out free game time etc.  "

As a scare and inconvenience, this mess certainly deserves anger.  But it seems like being moralistic about business and misunderstanding of how this industry works is mixed with legitimate feelings yet again.  Realistically people should use safer means to purchase PSN content (i.e. buying codes from another location, buying PSN points) etc. and maybe think twice about commercial trust over the internet.  Otherwise this is the same old story of damage control.  I still can't believe people take everything Sony's doing right now as face value.  Next you're gonna tell me you thought "Mission Accomplished" was real in 2003.

This debacle demonstrates that our information put into in companies like Microsoft, Sony, and any other online distributor of content is ultimately out of our hands.  The fact that it happened with Sony is almost completely irrelevant.  It could easily have been Microsoft, Bank of America, Amazon, or Netflix.  Hence this should really be a discussion about trusting anyone with your credit card information and people's ignorance of what could happen.  I would hazard to say that if no damage was done (by the hackers) then this was a positive experience for everyone.  A good scare is all that's needed to wake up people to better security...at least for the time being.  If everyone's just gonna forget anyway then they get what's comin' to them, especially after the lesson was learned.

Oh im silly, theres a thread about this already

So it's actually 30 days of plus, some free stuff out of the store (which is not going to be back up next week, but later this month, I guess?) and discounts on consultation about ID theft protection.

"Ah just chuck some free shit at them that will ultimately probably make us money.. they'll forget all about it in a month"

I really don't care what they offer me but it's nice they have offered something.

30 day playstation plus membership really doesn't seem like much, im already paying the 50 a year, how about  portal 2 and the forthcoming battlefield 3 as compensation 

The funny part is that Plus only means as much as the content Sony actually adds to it.

" @The_Laughing_Man: Sony just said there is no evidence of credit card numbers being accessed or of an customer damages related to the breach.

"

Free After Burner Climax for everybody YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

" @Giacomito: Frankly, I'd like the ability to wipe all of my data from their severs, not just being able to change my password.  The free content we get might be enough make me happy, but like I said, I expect Europeans to get completely screwed.  We'll get a Playstation mini or at best, some lame PSN game nobody was buying anyway.  Discounts and whatever else are dependant on Sony putting them up..  How many great deals do you think they'll offer when they're having to provide the service to everyone for free?

I could be wrong, just excuse me if I'm not excited by the prospect.

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" Way to be vague yet again, Sony. Can you please just tell us what the free content is, for Christ's sake? "

Free content differs per Region. Says in the PS blog:

 http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/30/press-release-some-playstation-network-and-qriocity-services-to-be-available-this-week/

Isn't 30 days of Playstation Plus and  Qriocity like a giant advertisement for the service?  Way to turn a negative into a positive!  I wonder if I have to enter my credit card to gain access to those free features.