Sony is in knee-high shit right now.
Someone haxx their interwebz and stole PSN user's account info, credit card information, and addresses.This will reportedly cost Sony over $24 Billion.Goodbye PSN. I love you.Without you, I shall never know how to love again.R.I.P.
As a Sony supporter since Playstation One, this does bother me quite a bit. I had a lot of faith in these guys. They should have encrypted everything, I agree, but if hackers wanted to bad enough this could have happened to Xbox as well.
Also, I'm safe. No information on my profile will hurt me if it gets stolen, as I don't have any cards connected to it. I always bought the PSN Cards :DThat seems to be a major misunderstanding around a lot of the internet, that whoever did this had an anti-sony agenda and it could have happened to microsoft just as easily. There are a lot of problems with that, primarily because it's based on the assumption that nobody is anti-microsoft, which is… not a concept worth entertaining. Secondly, and most pertinently, this appears to have been in no way a planned, targeted attack, rather an opportunistic one brought about by sony's network security having more holes than a wet paper bag, that'd just been used for target practice. Using grenades.
There are enough people out there with enough motivations that any security hole will eventually be exploited.Just because they "think" it wasn't planned doesn't mean it wasn't. Anon was planning on taking them down, though they rejected doing it, that doesn't mean they didn't. Think about the George Hotz case. Isn't it interesting this happened after that, and after Sony was threatened to be taken down? Not saying no one has a problem with Microsoft, but they were sure as hell angry with Sony.
No, it's not "interesting", it's "inherent". Because the whole GeoHotz thing was about sony trying to stop people running unsigned code, and this required you to run unsigned code. It's pretty much just the end result of a failure cascade started by the release of the private key. Built on the shoulders of giants, so to speak.
I get what you are saying and I agree I suppose. If the private key wasn't discovered everything would still be in the clear.
Sony says all credit card info on the PSN during the data leak was encrypted.
and GeoHot says that they didn't haxx Sony's interwebz.I don't believe any of them.Given their track record with keys lately, I'm not optimistic.
I love how Microsoft and Nintendo ain't sayin' shit about this.
They just be mindin' they bizzness. They're probably secretly laughing their asses off right now.My card hasn't got much on anyway :P
Plus, they don't have security numbers so shouldn't we all be safe?They climbin in yo internetz, hakkin' yo consoles up, tryin' to steal info, so y'all need to hide ya Xbox's, hide yo Wii's and hide yo PS3's, 'cuz they be hakkin erreh thang out here.
Oh and this.