[citation][nom]welltester[/nom]and just how many times has sony not reported a breach like this?[/citation]
Nobody knows, which is why that's a failure of an attempted bashing on Sony. Am I one of the few people out there who understand how attacks like this work? What did you think was going to happen? Their server's copy of Norton would detect an attempted intrusion and block it? No. People who knew what they were doing attacked, got through, and Sony pulled the plug as soon as they saw it happening. And reported it faster than pretty much all other companies, whether you believe what was said or not. What else do you want from them? Free beer?[citation][nom]khimera2000[/nom]Its easy to blame sony because it didnt even look liked they tried to begin with. I just glanced through my network + security book and it had 3 scanarious that would of avertid this disaster in the first 10 min of reading.It is understood that you information is at risk when you go online. Its at more risk at those nice brick and morter. But if your saying that its ok for a company to forget to encript all that information, and forgot to split up game infro from user info, and have it stolen... thats three strikes in the span of one attack. They didn't secure the information, they tried to secure the way in, but once in they where in there was nothing put in place to stop them... other then a couple of hexadecimals.The amount of users compramised is also a sing of how much sony failed. ALL that infromation in one place think of it. Do you put all the information vital to your life in your locked volvo??? no matter how secured it looks that information has to be spread out, and protected. At least protect the infromation to the point that one attack will not give you all the crap you need to become someone else. If they just broke up the infromaion, and encripted then I would give it to them... but as it stands they didnt, and 77 million people now need identaty protection, and all there able to do is shoot out PR spin in hopes that it could do a little for public opinion in order to buffer those painfull lawsuits that are comming.[/citation]
Nope. It's all in a safe, thank you very much. Do you scatter your information all throughout various random places in your house? Didn't think so. But if I were to get a team of professional safe crackers in my basement, what the hell do you think is going to happen?[citation][nom]Blessedman[/nom]My biggest problem with this is Sony was given fair warning of the actions that were about to come down on them. They dismissed a threat from a group that governments fear and I think that is where Sony ultimately failed. That and the fact that the most important information they can keep on file was not encrypted. Unless I am mistaken and the hackers were able to not only grab the data but the keys as well.[/citation]
I am about to shoot you. Stop me. ... See? I told you what was going to happen, and you didnt do anything about it. I must not have done anything wrong.[citation][nom]azrealhk[/nom]It is an unfortunate but sad fact that IT works on the "If it is not broken, dont fix it". I work in IT and know that constantly patching a system, can some times be more problematic than leaving it alone. It is easy to say in hindsight that a company should do this and that etc.The point is, it could have been any company. The problem is the hackers , they disrupted the system (probably on purpose).How many more companies need to be hacked before we realize it is not mainly a Sony problem.[/citation]
A lot. As long as Sony refuses to allow people to pirate games and hack their consoles with no consequences, these ignorant bastards are just going to keep bashing on them because they have nothing at all better to do. That's all there is to it.