Nintendo Admits It Was Hacked, but Says Users Are Safe

[Jumplion]

Do you guys actually realize from what this SONY thing started, ... it's super simple. Sony totally disabled and prevented any further use of LINUX on the PS3 like a year or more ago, making those people angry ... that's why the FAILOVERFLOW started to get serious, that's why geohot ... that's why rage at sony , because sony did this to their self, PS3 came out with ADVERTISMENTS that it can run LINUX and was marketed OFFICIALLY.

[HEADING=2]What. Advertisements.[/HEADING]

People have always taken out the "It was advertised!" card, but I have yet to see one single iota of proof that Sony advertised the Other OS function. No TV advertisement, radio ads, magazine ads, movie ads, nothing. Every time I have asked for evidence of this statement, I am never given any and I am never given and answer. I am sick of people tossing out that statement without giving one bit of evidence to support it, it's just something people have tossed out to make them look bad. I don't care about the ethics of Sony removing Other OS, I don't care if they brought it onto themselves (though the users whos information was stolen did not bring it onto themselves), I don't care who's in the right here; I just want to know where the hell they "advertised" this damn feature?

And it's not like Nintendo isn't [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.284718-Anti-DRM-Group-Aims-Bricks-At-Nintendo] guilty [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.287328-Anti-DRM-Group-Sends-Nintendo-200-Bricks?page=1] of screwing with customers, or any other company for that matter. In comparison to the whole Sony fiasco, it's minor, sure, but it seems people are forgetting that all companies fuck with us on occasion.

Ah, and as for this, whatever. This year seems to be the year of the hacker, so I just really don't give a shit anymore. This whole ordeal has become ridiculous, to say the least, and balls-to-the-walls insane at best. Can't we just....get over this already?

 

[RA92]

Gabe's probably going like <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108197-Valve-Unveils-Hardware-Based-Steam-Security>"Come at me, bro."

 

[MurderousToaster]

I'm wondering if someone will 'shop a picture of Bill Gates in a darkened back alley handing money over to someone wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

 

[Spygon]

Sony this is how you respond to a hacker attack nintendo could have brushed this all under the carpet and said everything was fine as it wasnt even that serious.

But nintendo did the right thing within 24 hours told us what had happened and to what extent and even managed to fix the problem.This why i have complained so much about how the "sony hacks" as this is how multi-million international compaines should act

 

[Frostbite3789]

Sony this is how you respond to a hacker attack nintendo could have brushed this all under the carpet and said everything was fine as it wasnt even that serious.

But nintendo did the right thing within 24 hours told us what had happened and to what extent and even managed to fix the problem.This why i have complained so much about how the "sony hacks" as this is how multi-million international compaines should act

Yeah and the hack Nintendo had to deal with wasn't halfway as severe. Plus Nintendo saw the precedent that was set. Neither you nor I can prove this is what they would've done had the Sony thing not already happened.

 

[Von Strimmer]

*Eyes his Xbox*

Any day now...

Please?

As the most evil company in the business MS deserves it.

So me as a customer of Microsoft deserve to get my account info stolen because I am "supporting the bad guy"? I wont even get involved with the ignorance of that statement but I ask that you think before you say things.

 

[Ranorak]

I'm getting pretty tired of these self titled internet vigilantes.
"We're fighting the big bad companies because they are evil."

Fuck off, they make entertainment.
If you want to battle world issues, start by something relevant.
These companies (evil or not) produce video games, things that bring us joy.
Yes, they want to make money, but they could also be selling baby panda kidneys.
Instead they decided to produce product that bring us joy and entertainment.

 

[kortin]

Heres an idea, lets burn Lulzsec at the stake with Geohotz!

Captcha: mey ereatem, indeed!

 

[Frostbite3789]

*Eyes his Xbox*

Any day now...

Please?

As the most evil company in the business MS deserves it.

So me as a customer of Microsoft deserve to get my account info stolen because I am "supporting the bad guy"? I wont even get involved with the ignorance of that statement but I ask that you think before you say things.

At least that's one guy. Being a Sony customer, I've had to deal with seeing legions of Xbox fanboys going "lol had it coming" on here.

 

[portal_cat]

'just for the lolz?!' please, that's the worse reason I've ever heard since 'I was just following orders.'

 

[starwarsgeek]

*Eyes his Xbox*

Any day now...

Please?

As the most evil company in the business MS deserves it.

Please? Please compromise more identities just to prove a point? Please add another million checking their bank account constantly just in case some dumbass cyber criminals compromised their identity to give Microsoft a bad day?

No thanks. You need to realize that these guys are not heroes. They're attention-seeking trolls who hope to trick people into liking them by going after big targets.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

I am getting really freaking tired of these assholes. Doing this is not funny anymore. It never was funny. They are commiting a felony, and I really wish they would stop.

Here's to hoping they spend the rest of their lives locked in a cell with a large man who makes them call him "Daddy".

 

[Neonit]

the worst reason you can commit crime for. for fun.
for money? i can understand. but for fun? sorry guys, but you are just plain retarded.

but yeah, they are basicly just a bunch of kids with too much time on their hands. someday they will grow up and move on. even if it takes 30-40 years.

 

[theultimateend]

I am so... what would the word for this be? Peeved? Exasperated? Outright sick of all these shenanigans? I get why people are mad at Sony, but these guys state that they didn't even have any major beef against Nintendo. What the heck?

Well I really want a 3DS but all the colors are terrible and it has a 3 hour battery life.

Maybe someone in Lulzec was thinking the same thing?

 

[BabyRaptor]

Ffs... Im getting so tired of this. Do we have to delete our accounts on every platform/website/service for these hackers to be happy?

No. They'd be pissed that there was nothing to hack. There's no winning with these people.

 

[Hogbinladen]

When they got linux, all were happy, nobody seriously tried or hyped hacking it for piracy, only minor stuff such as basement idiots who operate file sharing sites ... but those were 16old script kiddies they never broken anything serious to crack the PS3 ... and Sony was afraid of those kids using linux typing commands and "magically" crack it, that's how the company is totally wrong at what their perception is, only serious guys who are at college actually know stuff and those guys aren't idiots they would just hack it for lulz.

Take note of the date of this article would you please?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8478764.stm

 

[hawkeye52]

Do you guys actually realize from what this SONY thing started, ... it's super simple. Sony totally disabled and prevented any further use of LINUX on the PS3 like a year or more ago, making those people angry ... that's why the FAILOVERFLOW started to get serious, that's why geohot ... that's why rage at sony , because sony did this to their self, PS3 came out with ADVERTISMENTS that it can run LINUX and was marketed OFFICIALLY.

[HEADING=2]What. Advertisements.[/HEADING]

People have always taken out the "It was advertised!" card, but I have yet to see one single iota of proof that Sony advertised the Other OS function. No TV advertisement, radio ads, magazine ads, movie ads, nothing. Every time I have asked for evidence of this statement, I am never given any and I am never given and answer. I am sick of people tossing out that statement without giving one bit of evidence to support it, it's just something people have tossed out to make them look bad. I don't care about the ethics of Sony removing Other OS, I don't care if they brought it onto themselves (though the users whos information was stolen did not bring it onto themselves), I don't care who's in the right here; I just want to know where the hell they "advertised" this damn feature?

theres an interview here with a sony rep at the E3 before the PS3 was released

http://www.qj.net/qjnet/playstation-3/its-official-the-ps3-will-support-linux-and-homebrew.html

Also since no other console has ever supported linux and sony went through the time and expense to say they will support it and produced software to do so its pretty obvious that they wanted people to use it to begin with otherwise what would be the point of putting it in.

 

[PixelKing]

*Eyes his Xbox*

Any day now...

Please?

As the most evil company in the business MS deserves it.

*cough*Activision, you fool*cough*

OT: Oh wow, Can I punch every lulzsec member for the lulz?

 

[Von Strimmer]

*Eyes his Xbox*

Any day now...

Please?

As the most evil company in the business MS deserves it.

So me as a customer of Microsoft deserve to get my account info stolen because I am "supporting the bad guy"? I wont even get involved with the ignorance of that statement but I ask that you think before you say things.

At least that's one guy. Being a Sony customer, I've had to deal with seeing legions of Xbox fanboys going "lol had it coming" on here.

Hmmm fair enough I suppose. I agree that anyone who laughs at the misfortune of sony customers should get f'd. statement redacted with apologies good sir.