Stolen Pixels #260: The Dark Fortress

[Shamus Young]

Stolen Pixels #260: The Dark Fortress

Watch out hackers, Sony is ready for you!

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[therandombear]

not a angry face on the side! Whatever will they do about that :O

All that's missing is a speech bubble saying "Bo" next to the angry face and no more hacking on the PS3, for sure.

 

[steeple]

and if that wont work, we can always say that we're very disappointed in them, and make them say that they're sorry!

its fool-proof...

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

I imagine Sony's firewalls will be treated something like There's a Monster at the End of this Book [http://smollin.com/michael/tmonstr/mon001.html]. That'll keep those dastardly hackers out for sure.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Ok the (Important!) made me LOL. Good stuff there. If it hadn't already been done I would be filling out a patent application for network connection over barbed wire http://www.patchrj45cable.com/t1-over-barbed-wire-anything-but-ethernet-2007.html

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

I love the addition of umlauts over the "A" in "Dark Fortress" on that sketch, really sold it for me. Umlauts evidently add credibility to anything, not just Metal musicians!

 

[Metal Brother]

Awesome comic - one of my favorites. Beyond the comedy it also captures the approach that Sony has apparently taken to network security in the past. It will be interesting to see if this ends up being prophetic...

 

[JDKJ]

If the White House server, with the resources of the entire federal government behind it, can be hacked multiple times, why should Sony be any different? Sony's situation just makes clear what everybody should have long ago figured out: once you've become an attractive target for hackers, there's not much you can do but respond retroactively to them. There's no proactive defense. If they want in, they'll get in and there ain't nothing anyone can do to stop them.

 

[stranamente]

Sure no hacker would venture in those black boxes now!

 

[AceAngel]

You had such a golden Shamus, GOLDEN chance to make a Mordor and all that joke in a subtle way, yet you dribbled into another 'Hur Hur, physical hacker touch joke'.

Why Shamus, WHY? You were the chosen one!

 

[mneme]

I normally love your stuff, but I think you missed the mark here, turning "We increased security, and no we're not going to tell you our internal architecture" into a fairly silly joke.

 

[E-Penguin]

Better yet, just hire Dr. Breen
http://images.wikia.com/borderlands/images/3/3c/DrHax.jpg

That's Dr. HAX, not Dr. Breen. Everyone knows that.

 

[Jordi]

Alas, it didn't work... [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.286553-Sony-Hacked-Again][footnote]Yeah, I know that's not PSN.[/footnote]

 

[Felix Arturo Macias Ibarra]

Hack sony, be a cool guy.

 

[Dev Null]

Holy crap; the "make.believe" think is their real advertising slogan. I thought you were just making fun of them. All you need to do is add the word "security" underneath.

 

[Brainst0rm]

I appreciated that umlaut, Shamus. You don't see enough of 'em these days.

 

[Postal47]

RJ-45 is a connector standard, not a cable standard. I think you meant cat-5 or cat-6 cable with barbed wire. I'd like to see the IEEE standard for that!

 

[Postal47]

If the White House server, with the resources of the entire federal government behind it, can be hacked multiple times, why should Sony be any different?.

Because unlike the federal government, Sony has to keep it's customers happy to make a profit and stay in business. Bradley Manning (who is not a hacker) was able to "steal" (allegedly steal) secrets from the DOD by simply going to a DOD computer and burning them onto a Lady Gaga cd. They (the DOD) didn't even have basic Windows permissions set up properly! My point is, don't use the government as your gold standard for information security.

 

[mjc0961]

Haha, I like the nice touch of them spelling "deterrent" wrong and having to fix it.