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

[Frostbite3789]

I have to say, this will likely see me in more flames in Joan of Arc, but If this is Anon... I kinda like their style here. Set up a blockade to prevent people from accessing their precious PSN. When people arn't willing to boycott Sony by choice, Lets force them. If this happens repeatedly, or stays down for weeks or months at a time, How long do you think it will take for the PSN community to dwindle and rather then wait and pray, they find another source for gaming online from a 360 or PC. If the PSN dies, do you really thing Sony would bother making a PS4 if this is what they'll have to deal with? Generations from now, Kids could be saying Whats a Playstation? much like the uniformed kids of today say Whats an Atari or Sega?

I'm now going to refrain from name calling and calling you many different obscene words you deserve to be called.

And saying the thing about flames doesn't protect you at all. You're trying to say "no offense but..." and let me say, that doesn't work.

Onto your post though, you're saying that because we didn't participate in a boycott we didn't support we should be punished? I in no way shape or form supproted what Hotz or Anon was doing in the first place. But me, the paying consumer who is apparently the victim of Sony is now to be made a victim by Anon if you're right? Isn't that what Anon is against? Forcing people to do things? Giving power to people? Not taking it away.

Unless of course hey, Anon was in the minority this time and nobody cared what they did. Then it's perfectly right for them to deny service to millions of people worldwide for something they expect? Meanwhile according to you, they are 100% in the right.

On every single level everything you said is wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

I try to avoid getting riled up by trolls but the sheer idiocy of that post made my blood boil. Mission accomplished troll.

 

[ddq5]

Please never use the "word" "hacktivist" again.

 

[Keybladeking57]

It may or may not have been anonymous, but that's NO reason at all for me to take ANYTHING they say seriously. A troll is a troll, no matter how smart he/she seems to be. Anonymous CANNOT and SHOULD NOT be taken seriously at all. It simply gives them credibility that they don't deserve in the slightest. Come on people! They do everything "for the lulz" for Christ's sake! The shit they do to simply get a rise out of people would make 4-Chan blush. And that's an accomplishment in trollhood.

 

[Joa_Belgium]

Jezus, it's not as if Sony is pointing its finger at Anonymous. I'm getting the feeling that everyone is just bashing on Sony because it's fun. If Xbox Live would suffer a similar outage, you'd all be hating on Microsoft. Same for the Wii. Well, not that everyone uses the online feature of the blasted thing, but still. You get my point.

Sony is busy dealing with it and it seems they got it under control. It'll be back on its feet soon.

So guys, please. Take a chill pill. Relax. Go outside and get some fresh air. And please think twice before posting something.

Anyway, trolls gonna troll and haters gonna hate, I suppose.

 

[Cade the Imperfect]

If they did it, they are idiots, the "supports" are becoming few and far between and diminishing over a period of stupid actions taken by the group.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

If Sony full on admits that it was their screw up as opposed to waffling about saying how it COULD have been a third party, I'd be impressed.

 

[Flunk]

This denial is stupid, because anyone can be or might be a member of Anonymous and is not required to share information with anyone else. They can't deny doing something, ever. Because they might be doing it without that specific "spokesperson" knowing.

This is one of the reasons why the whole idea of Anonymous is both brilliant and mind-numbingly stupid.

 

[ReiverCorrupter]

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?

Sony is a multinational conglomerate that only cares about profit.

Why should we EVER take their word for it?

 

[MorphingDragon]

I don't really care about those damn groups. Can't they find all those bastards and jail them, or, better yet, fine? And use that money to secure another exclusive for PS3?
I've always hated hackers. Now I see I was right to do so.

Don't be so ignorant.

 

[Logarithmic Limbo]

I was going to write a rather well thought out post on how Sony has fugged things up in the past numerous times and blamed it on the users, that the users "was doing it wrong", that the users were "doing it for the lulz", or just that the users were just plain stupid not to recognize the greatness that Sony is. But then I saw that the fan bois were out in force being the retards only fan bois can be, and knowing that well thought out arguments fall on deaf ears regardless how eloquently they are presented, so fuggit.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

I don't really care about those damn groups. Can't they find all those bastards and jail them, or, better yet, fine? And use that money to secure another exclusive for PS3?
I've always hated hackers. Now I see I was right to do so.

Don't be so ignorant.

Ignorance is bliss^^

 

[wooty]

I still find it funny that even though they probably se themselves as some sort of "crusaders for justice", but along its probably just some fat bloke in his basement or some geek with a serious Boba Fett-ish

 

[roflmecopter]

Aha, anonops are the splinter group. By the simple act of putting ops on the end of anon they have identified themselves and are in fact, no longer anon in the truest sense.

Idiots.

They've only identify themselves as a group just like anon has identified themselves. Anyways I'd bet on internal error.

 

[lt_yao]

There is no such group as anonymous... It's just anyone who feels like causing a bit of disturbance due one reason or another propose an idea on 4chan and any random guy may, if he wishes so, join in.

It's not a group devoted to cause trouble, it's not like there are memberships there. It's just a bunch of random anonymous people united by 1 goal.

Not sure who is the spokes person for this so called anonymous, because it doesn't exist.

 

[Awexsome]

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?

Sony is a multinational conglomerate that only cares about profit.

Why should we EVER take their word for it?

Because... y'know. They are a company. They tend to want to make money to continue their games.

Anons that participated in the attack to get personal info should all get jail time. The little outlaws think they're untouchable. Would love to see those little shits get some consequences for breaking the law.

 

[ReiverCorrupter]

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?

Sony is a multinational conglomerate that only cares about profit.

Why should we EVER take their word for it?

Because... y'know. They are a company. They tend to want to make money to continue their games.

Anons that participated in the attack to get personal info should all get jail time. The little outlaws think they're untouchable. Would love to see those little shits get some consequences for breaking the law.

That doesn't make sense. Have you ever heard of the Ford Pinto? Ford knew that it's gas tank had a poor design that would lead to it exploding from collisions from behind. They calculated that the money they could lose in a lawsuit over the accidents that would inevitably occur amounted to much less than what they would lose if they issued a recall, so they didn't. If profits > human life, then profits >>>>>>>> truth. I'm not saying business is evil, it just is what it is. They're going to do as much bad shit as they can get away with if it helps them.

Sony would lie about this because if it was actually a problem with their servers, they would look very bad. "Third party interference" makes a very nice scapegoat, and Anonymous is the logical target because of it's disorganization and its past history with Sony. Sure it could have been Anonymous, but all that means is that a certain member of Anonymous did it. The press releases are a joke because they cannot have official stances and cannot know what their members do. By hating Anonymous, you're basically hating hackers in general. Some are good and some are bad.

As for the law... it can't possibly keep up with the internet, and the fact is that the government itself can do some shady stuff. They were essentially trying to bring down Wikileaks using illegal means, and Anonymous tries to stop them. Sure, the little bastards who just rip people off and steal their personal info should be the subject of police inquiry, but I'm not sure why those people would bother to be part of Anonymous, they're just self interested, and Anonymous can give them no benefit. It isn't a personal tool for advancement, its a means for like-minded people to act in coordination to achieve political goals and lulz.

 

[Bravo 21]

i just have to ask, a group of anonymous "hacktivists" hacked PSN, but it wasn't the "Anonymous" anonymous entity, just how do these people determine who is them and who is not them? or is it just a small group of people who advise/take part in hacking things they don't like, under the banner of Anon?

 

[AlexWinter]

Anonymous as an entity is more like a riot than an army.

You can't really blame things on the whole mob and the mob can't say what it did and didn't do because everyone is the mob.

Anonymous is only somebody or something when they are referred to as Anonymous. They are everybody and no one in a way that almost makes sense.

OT: I don't think this was them. I think the Facebook page is talking shit and the PSN has just crashed.

Shit happens.

 

[JWAN]

This is getting shitty really fast.