Not sure if anyone else has seen this, but I thought it was an interesting find. Anonymous To "Destroy" Sony's Online Network for SOPA Support | PlayStation LifeStyle
Me wonders why they don't attack companies like Microsoft, who charge for online play, and burn out hard drives if they've found them to be modified. Why target a company that offers online play for free, and give an online gaming experience for free, seems like they are fighting the wrong people.
This is really annoying, now it's like they are going to attack for no reason and I agree with Iggy Microsoft charges for bad service :right: where is the threats to them
I don't think there will be any downtime and if there is it will be short lived compared to the previous outage. Sony did a LOT of security upgrades since the last attack.
After reading that article and the comments I'm a little confused. I read the bill, and the arguments for and against this SOPA bill. Living here in China you can openly see that millions of dollars being made by ripping off companies and creators. Almost no iPhone is sold in China that is not Jailbroke. As an artist here, and talking with several artists from around the globe, we have all been ripped off. We must advertise our work online, but that gives people the ability to download our work and then sell it themselves without the creators getting diddly. Here is China they download games like its nothing. If you buy a PS3 here they offer a removable hard drive as a companion sale, on the hard drive you'll find up to sixty games, and as long as you don't go online, you can play those and more for next to nothing. What about supporting developers and artists, musicians and creators. A recent article by a not-so-famous band said they no longer make money by recording music, but by touring, since online downloads are so easy to find. Maybe this law is too loosely stated, but there needs to be some sort of protection for creator's rights, and anonymous should be fighting to help the creators. Big companies like Sony shell out tons of cash for creators and is one of the few types of industries that give jobs to so many varieties of artist, musicians, and techies.
With all the new security Sony has it wont be destroyed, also Sony has so much money they can have a bottomless pit of lawyers to sue them :3 . I think the goverment and someone would do somthing about this . They aren't the only hackers:
That being said I wouldn't mind getting one of those "Welcome Back" packs, I missed the last one.:crybaby:
At least servers shouldnt have to be rebuilt, so it will be maintenance down time, lag, program glitches and not being able to get into home, omg have they been attacking for last 6 months
I'm remaining calm about the whole thing. But at least if something happens, we'll have an ideas what it is.
they're just butt hurt. In my opinion, i bet Sony and their minions have caught up to these guys after what did to all of us earlier this year, and have struck back. And now they're hurt, mad, sad, and now they're saying, ( mocking crying voice ) "I will destroy you Sony! sniff sniff..." hopefully their computer systems were infected with a pretty nasty virus. Lol And on aother note, They may have hacked into the defense department and lockeed marten's public computer systems, but i know for a fact that they"can NOT" hack Lockeed Martin's closed computer mainframes because it's a closed system at a secure site. The same goes for the D.O.D... And even if the do try to mess with all of us again, I will personally go after these shrills.
I suggest deleting any info on your account management section that you wouldn't want Anonymous to get. Delete all billing information. Delete your address. Delete your name. DEFINITELY make sure your credit card info is gone. make sure your PSN passwords are not the same as your bank's website or anything like that. I also would delete my email address if I could. But then, I'm probably going to need that if Sony forces me to reauthorize my account....AGAIN.
Please. I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that MS fanboys are behind all this. Microsoft corporation and its products, after all, have been the global target of hundreds of thousands of serious hacking attempts since Windows 3.1. So MS has been forced, by trial of fire, to become very, very, very good at proactively addressing security threats to its networks, and in designing architecture that can withstand repeated brute-force attacks. MS security considerations meant that right from the start, any type of user modification to an Xbox invalidated it from online access to XBL, and codes on Xbox points cards have always been 25 digits long. And MS is able to address hacker's methodologies as they evolve. I question the wisdom of Sony's judgment and commitment to security when PSN continues to use 12-digit redemption codes (with a fixed 7th digit!) even though it's well known that PSN code generators exist. If Sony is willing to sell cash cards with codes that can be fraudulently generated and validated by independent sources, should I really trust them to take care of the personal data associated with my PSN account? Sony is leaving the door wide open to groups like Anon, they're practically begging hackers to take a swipe at PSN. I don't like this one bit.
