Why You Should be Grateful For The PSN Attack

[Guest]

We are still waiting for the Playstation Network to return and Sony tells us that there is no exact date when the service will be restored. Be upset, but be also grateful that this attack was as successful as it was.

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[kshitijmalkan]

I am not a fan of the could services. this is a great article and i strongly agree of the things mentioned here... lets take a back seat to these services. if people want to use them, well and fine... i am staying away.. and making my family stay away

 

[captaincharisma]

possible identity theft and possible credit card fraud that could completely damage lives? how can it be worse? taking that into account what kind of compensation would be enough?

 

[4745454b]

I keep telling people the privacy of data is why a true "cloud version of windows" won't come about. There is no way big companies will be willing to let MS store their sensitive/secret docs on MS's servers. I don't care how secure you can make the servers, I doubt many big companies will be willing to let some other company have any form of possible access to them.

I'm not sure reminding people about security is really an upside to the attack. I think the best thing that has come about because of this (other then Sony having more egg on their face) is that the hack wasn't as bad as people first thought, and hopefully everyone everywhere is busy patching their systems. A known flaw and a patch exists and Sony just hadn't got around to doing it yet?

 

[theshonen8899]

Nice article.

 

[11796pcs]

I don't think even average consumers are excited or even care about cloud computing much less techies. I hate the idea of cloud computing and have yet to meet a techie (at least on this site) that actually is excited about the prospect of cloud computing- it just has too many security holes. Not only does it mean I have to be connected to the internet 24/7 which is sometimes not possible, but I also have to trust a huge company (hahahahaha) with my entire life. Yeah, not going to happen.

 

[nebun]

ha ha ha, so much for the CLOUD, lol

 

[house70]

I don't get it why the article keeps poking at Google here and there, as if somehow they were connected to the big Sony flop. Let it be clear, Sony f...d up, not Google. If the op has a beef with cloud computing, he should include others; both MS and Apple have cloudy plans.
Not that I am defending cloud computing, I actually feel very uncomfortable with the whole idea; but keep pointing the finger at Sony, whose criminal negligence allowed all this to happen, and don't try to mix in other companies that have not screwed up so royally... yet.
And, really, this is not even about cloud computing; Sony elected to save the CC data and, even worse, to save it in an unsecured way. Nothing related to cloud here, just gross negligence and they need to pay the price for that. But, hey, nothing will happen to them, and nothing will change, and in a couple of months we will hear of yet another "loss" of data from some corporation that was supposed to safeguard it.
As far as the CC info, the more the thieves wait, the more secure Sony and the customers feel. Even if only 5% of the CC info will be still valid after a few months, the data will still be worth millions. This was an inside job in connection with some real professionals. Just like the vast majority of breaches are inside jobs.

 

[grossemesser]

Man! I couldn't have said it better two thumbs up to the guy who wrote this! Thank god there still exist people with a brain! Tom's is so lucky to have people like this in their staff, because this is what we need, and not dumbasses praising or even tolerating stupid cloud computing arguing things about security or whatever they want to say, denying the truth behind big brother's new project (YES, cloud-damn-computing) I really cannot stress out enough how great this article is, and how much I admire this kind of writers and editors. Again, people that refuse to abandon their brains and talk with the truth! The only thing left to say is please, please, please continue to do this as good as it has always been. It is no secret that the future lies in the hands of knowledge wielders, in this case, being "techies" as someone else already stated, because us techies are the people having the knowledge in our hands, and the same ones that get to use their brains, and use the knowledge we have to analyze and reject this or any kind of crap that others want to impose (sometimes successfully) on the always-decreasing-IQ average consumer, who will without doubt follow whatever others tell them to do or think, such as how great cloud computing is. And I repeat; I cannot stress out how great this article is. THANK YOU!!! Whoever wrote this should definitely get promoted, congratulations for writing such a valuable piece of information you are more than a genius!!! Oh and please, keep spreading the word!

 

[Guest]

I agree. I'm sure more attacks will occur but I believe that most if not all companies have learned from this and will strengthen security.

Also, laws will be written that will protect us and fines and punishments could be set in place now that should have been previously, to protect companies from these hackers.

Now if we can just get the PSN back up, we can move on.

 

[grossemesser]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]I don't get it why the article keeps poking at Google here and there, as if somehow they were connected to the big Sony flop. Let it be clear, Sony f...d up, not Google. If the op has a beef with cloud computing, he should include others; both MS and Apple have cloudy plans.Not that I am defending cloud computing, I actually feel very uncomfortable with the whole idea; but keep pointing the finger at Sony, whose criminal negligence allowed all this to happen, and don't try to mix in other companies that have not screwed up so royally... yet.And, really, this is not even about cloud computing; Sony elected to save the CC data and, even worse, to save it in an unsecured way. Nothing related to cloud here, just gross negligence and they need to pay the price for that. But, hey, nothing will happen to them, and nothing will change, and in a couple of months we will hear of yet another "loss" of data from some corporation that was supposed to safeguard it.As far as the CC info, the more the thieves wait, the more secure Sony and the customers feel. Even if only 5% of the CC info will be still valid after a few months, the data will still be worth millions. This was an inside job in connection with some real professionals. Just like the vast majority of breaches are inside jobs.[/citation]

It has ALL to do with Cloud Computing, I mean, after all it is the exact same way things will work in cloud computing... what is it you say? Big companies "keeping" your information instead of keeping it yourself. companies that are supposed to keep it safely, and that were supposedly keeping it in the right way, because as this article stated; if it wasn't for the attack no one would know how hack-able our information is in hands of supposedly responsible company. So, as you should know, NO system on earth (at all) is fail-proof, NONE, and then we will wind up knowing it is a matter of time until the company that keeps your info gets hacked. And sorry if this reply is rude or something but i really don't mean it, I only try to speak clearly.

 

[bobusboy]

"even f it may " typo fyi.

interesting article

 

[drwho1]

no cloud for me, not in 5 years or 500 years. (I don't plan to stick around that long)

but seriously, I don't care for cloud or any other name service, I rather have my programs, games or files on my own hard drive(s).

need them "away" from my hard drives?
that's what backups are good for, secure from any intruders on "their" cloud.

 

[Guest]

hahahaahahahahahahahhaha at all SONY fan boyz HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHA

 

[Guest]

get a life, your know nothing. billions for reparing old servers? st up id, f m uck

 

[ProDigit10]

I've never been a great opposer of cloud computing from the very beginning.
I find there's very little good on it, and aside from google docs allowing you to read pdf and excel files without installing an office suite, I find it has more bad than good to offer.

I doubt very few people want to run 3D games on cellphones that can not be run from a local processor. Especially for the 480x320 resolution most phones have these days, and 800x480 pixels for modern phones.

 

[Guest]

Listen to all of you. I am sure at least half of you have made an online purchase within the last 30 days.

 

[Guest]

I think they had it coming...

 

[Guest]

I AM GRATEFUL, INSTEAD OF WAITING TILL THE WEEKEND TO PLAY BLACK OPS,MODERN WARFARE 2 OR WORLD AT WAR. NOW I COULD WORRY ABOUT SCHOOL AND THE CST'S ARE COMING IN 2 WEEKS SO I'M GETTING PREPARED. WISH ME LUCK. BUT I DO HOPE IT COMES BACK AT JUNE FOR I COULD PLAY CALL OF DUTY ON MY SUMMER TIME. 😀 D:

 

[dimar]

Could is good for one thing. Everyone is going to keep their stuff on the cloud including the documents, pictures, music, movies and so on. If a company is low on money or just bored, they'll get access into the cloud and dig in people's stuff. Then they'll just sue bunch of people for some quick cash... Somebody should make a movie about this 🙂