"New", and hopefully much more secure this time around. Buried under the weight of the ongoing 'breach' debacle, yesterday's news about the new PS3 revamps hitting the FCC has completely fallen flat and as well seemingly on deaf ears too. Nevertheless, some might say it's rightful so, the move at least seem to be a solid step in something that at least has the appearance of being in the right direction. More importantly though these units surfaced coincidentally when the new SDK units were being released to developers, so one could most certainly assume the new models at the very least will be getting something along the lines of the updated and enhanced security measures the developers are sure to benefit from.
Of course other then the immediate speculation on what these said "changes" might actually be, any actual concrete details remain to be quite slim. (Well aside from the much rumored 300G HDD, but hey that's really beside the point.) However though, it’s being highly speculated as well that these new models may have actual been created in response to the original bane of Sony's existence, the root key hack which occurred late last year and has persisted ever since. Regardless of inception though, rather significant questions remain, specifically whether all the existing or earlier versions of the console would be eligible for any sort of exchange or upgrade program? Or, will the most certain firmware update when services seemly return do the trick? In conclusion though I definitely wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if we hear about Sony pulling a Microsoft come E3 time, I guess will just have to find out for certain come June. http://www.gamertell.com/gaming/comment/ps3-developers-given-improved-sdks-as-new-ps3-console-surfaces/
Anonymous denied all involvement a little while after the servers went down, but I wouldn't put it past them. "
Dude...Anonymous aren't pro hackers. Pro-hackers did this, people who go to the PartyVan IRC...people who go to DEFCON. Doing a DDOS doesn't make you a haxor. This was advance networking that only a rare percentage of people can do. "
" If the hackers really did get ever PSN accounts info then I can only imagine how scared they are at the moment of getting caught. My professor use to work for the NSA and he was talking today about how quickly some of these dudes get caught because they get scared and start talking to a lot of people online to get rid of the stuff and usually someone is will to take the $5,000 reward pretty fast. "
If you read the PartyVan IRC, a rare number of users were vanishing around a couple days before everything hit the fan. Over the weekend, the IRC mentioned how a couple of the better hackers got v& by the FBI for the Sony stuff. I don't know the full details and a lot of it was copypasta/screencapped from /v/ but the PartyVan IRC doesn't fuck around. "
oh okay, yeah I totally assumed that was about the previous attack and hackers being hackers in general. But I could swear I totally heard they were cracking down at the same time and that it was all just sort of a coincidental thing, I'm totally probably misinformed though.
" Ah, nice good to know this is a PSN issue. You should've put that on the title.Also the PartyVan IRC said this over the weekend, so I'm surprised it took MSM this long to find out. "
-Fixed. Oh, I wasn't really sure if that was official. Nevertheless they've been pretty coy since it happened, supposedly they're still going to release some sort of information on Friday pertaining to it so that's bound to be interesting.
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