Anonymous on PSN Outage: "For Once We Didn't Do It"

[EchetusXe]

We all should be thankful for what we have and when stuff like this happens, just take a break, its not the end of the world. We are all pissed off because when we get something like psn for free, after awhile we automatically think they have to give it to us.

Not really. It is the lack of communication. If they said "We have discovered a critical error in the Playstation Network. We are working to solve this. Rest assured that all your personal information and details are safe and security has not been compromised. The problem should be resolved by 22 April 2011, and all online features should be back in working order. Apologies for the frustration and thank you for using PSN!." then we would accept it.

Instead they have basically said "The network is down for some reason and it may be down for a couple of days. Then again maybe it won't be, cheers."

edit: Maybe I am being a bit harsh on Sony. After all if they don't know what the problem is then they don't know! I guess they are trying their best to fix the problem and Japan is still a bit of a mess following the earthquake.

 

[Paularius]

Well anon normally comes out and claims responability if they do. So i dont think it was anon.

 

[HyenaThePirate]

I said it months ago when we had that spirited conversation about the state of Anonymous. And thus it has come to pass.

I had said that the biggest problem with Anonymous is that they are anonymous, which means they can contain rogue elements, or any destructive cyber incident that takes place will always be able to be squarely shoved off into their laps, leaving them to take the blame for things they might not have done or in the very least did not agree with.

Looks like my words rang true and it happened. And now that the genie is out of the box...

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Anonymous is already splitting into groups. Eventually they'll die out into minor groups of hackers with no real cause. There will remain a small group trying to protect free speech but they will be dealt with soon enough.

 

[Popido]

Anonymous is already splitting into groups. Eventually they'll die out into minor groups of hackers with no real cause. There will remain a small group trying to protect free speech but they will be dealt with soon enough.

Since when did they not split into groups?

Btw I called it. It was Geohot and hes death machine. That or arabs. Both evil. Most likely arabs. What enemies The Escapist actually have?

 

[Lullabye]

I'm putting money on "Sony employee trips over and unplugs relatively important wire"...

...any takers?

Maybe an old lady was digging and hit a wire for something......

 

[Lt. Dragunov]

This all seems too shady to me, sure the network went down right after steam and ps3 severs merged and probably formed some sort of paradox of time and space and sony couldnt handle the power and crashed. Or someone in sony spilled thier drink on a computer that totaly butt raped the severs. Or it could be Anon, like they said before there is no leader, they are made up of alot of members, members with thier own objectives. Who's to say that a group of em' decided to crash the psn severs with out saying anything? OR it could be a completely different group of hackers doing this, unfortunaly we may never know what the real problem is mainly because sony won't tell anyone the problem or there is a third pary screwing everything and decided not to say anything about it. Also i dont know about you guys but i have a feeling one day probably soon ps3 users may have to start paying a monthly fee after this.

 

[FalloutJack]

You know, being an official Anonymous group DOES kinda' make it hard to keep track of things and who's on what side and whatnot.

 

[LockeDown]

[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTbLA_1nkgU&feature=channel_video_title[/link]

Found this on Youtube, posted today. It doesn't look like the usual Anonymous message, so its very likely that it's some kid just taking credit for something he didn't do, but it looks like someone's claiming responsibility for the outage.

Or cleverly trying to push the blame toward Anonymous.

 

[Baresark]

Anonymous is an organization that attacks data points for a purpose. If they didn't do it, I would believe them.

"oh, it's a splinter group, it's still them" argument = dumb.

 

[PunkRex]

AnonOps?!

These guys in suits with V masks on... should we be scared?

 

[GonzoGamer]

Or it could just be that the hamsters powering the Sony servers all died. There's that, too.

This group of hackers has never given us reason NOT to take their word for it.
And I'm actually not being sarcastic.

On the other hand, Sony has given us plenty reason to think that they can't keep their shit together. That leap year fiasco (finally looked it up) WAS only a year ago. I guess we're due for their next great screwup.

They are a group of hackers playing bully on the internet doing extremely illegal things. Nobody's private information is safe to them. Why should we EVER take their word for it?

Because if it was anonymous (especially) they would've been gloating about it before anything even happened.

I dont buy it. Thats not good enough for me. Anon is made up of random people with their own ideals and no system of command. Any single agent could have taken it apon themselves to do the dirty deed at any time.

Sure it's possible but based on previous experience, I think that
A - we would've heard them take responsibility
B - Sony wouldn't have been so quick to backtrack on their "outside influence" excuse.

The most likely reason I see is Sony dropping the ball: something like this happens to psn every once in a while.

 

[TehIrishSoap]

This is only the beginning... Like Die Hard 4! (Or Live Free and Die Hard if you're a yank)

 

[linkvegeta]

We all should be thankful for what we have and when stuff like this happens, just take a break, its not the end of the world. We are all pissed off because when we get something like psn for free, after awhile we automatically think they have to give it to us.

Not really. It is the lack of communication. If they said "We have discovered a critical error in the Playstation Network. We are working to solve this. Rest assured that all your personal information and details are safe and security has not been compromised. The problem should be resolved by 22 April 2011, and all online features should be back in working order. Apologies for the frustration and thank you for using PSN!." then we would accept it.

Instead they have basically said "The network is down for some reason and it may be down for a couple of days. Then again maybe it won't be, cheers."

edit: Maybe I am being a bit harsh on Sony. After all if they don't know what the problem is then they don't know! I guess they are trying their best to fix the problem and Japan is still a bit of a mess following the earthquake.

No I strongly Disagree.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

I guess I could give Sony a message like this one.

You can't hold a network together forever with duct tape and bailing wire.

Hey I know this is a bit off topic, but can I use this for the quote of the day? It's for The Hot Topic Escapists user group.

OT: Sony should use lemmings instead. They'll work themselves to death

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Should we be scared?

Are script kiddies the least bit scary?

 

[Digikid]

However and whomever is responsible.....I applaud thee.

This is friggin hilarious. Really it is.

 

[meepop]

It's somebodys fault! I'm not beating Portal 2 offline. I need my simultaneous Steam achievements. I'd play my PC copy, but I need my trophies, too. Back to Majin, then.

So games are only worth playing for imaginary points nowadays? I'm saddened...

If you beat a boss in a game, don't you wanna feel like you did something? Achievements aren't there just to be there -- you can prove you did something if you have them.

OT: Yeah, I don't know much about Anonymous, but I think that Sony cocked up PSN somehow. C'mon, Sony! Repair it so I can get back to Portal 2! This is an outrage...Go f*ck yourself, Splinter of Anon.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

This is only the beginning... Like Die Hard 4! (Or Live Free and Die Hard if you're a yank)

Screw that. I'm a "Yank", and it's still Die Hard 4. And he says "Yippee-kay-yay, ************", not "Yippee-kay-yay, mother*gunshot*".

OT: I'm not sure what to believe. I highly doubt one group on the outside could actually take down an entire network worldwide for days, and Sony has had their system crash before.