PSN Down Worldwide; Is Anonymous to Blame?

[ThatLankyBastard]

Wait a minute... I called this! you guys all owe me money!!!

...you know who you are... Jamie!!!

 

[Eijarel]

I really doubt is anon, since this presented itself right after portal came out and the proposal that there was gonna be multi-platforming with valve, i wouldn't be surprised that somewhat somewhere an error was caused.

or it might be just a russian grandma that dug out couple fiber optic cables, again.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Oh for the love of god.


All I wanted to do was sit back, relax and play video games but NOOOOOOO, Anon has to go play "THE WHITE KNIGHT OF THE INTERNATZ" Because of some BS between a stupid baby hacker and Sony.

 

[midpipps]

You do realize sony never said anything about anon or any other group they said they are having an outage and that they have not ruled out 3rd party interference. In other words they are working on tracking down the problem and do not know what is causing it at this time. It would be the original poster and many others who jumped the bandwagon and put it to anon.

By "Recent attacks" I don't mean this outage, I mean the ones whilst the GeoHot case was going on.

"A source at Sony's hosting provider, which handles operations like Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) and Sony Music, tells Ars that the DDoS attacks have been underwhelming. The source characterized them more as an annoyance than an unstoppable force. They "annoyed our network engineers," says the source, but are only of "medium strength."

Source [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/source-anonymous-attacks-on-sony-annoying-not-much-more.ars]

Except you said that sony was scapegoating anon and that we should open our eyes when really they have not blamed anon. They said they were getting ddos attacks back then never claimed from who they were just saying our network is having issues right now and that it was ddos attacks. Which I can rightly believe hell even where I work we have gotten ddos attacks at random. It is just part of having an online service.

EDIT: also according to your source it was not even a guy from sony it was "A source at Sony's hosting provider"

 

[BanthaFodder]

I doubt Anonymous did this. they have this sense of honor, despite how messed up they can be... besides, Anonymous is smart enough to know that doing something like this would turn many of people who either supported them or were neutral (myself, for example) against them.

Whatever it is, hopefully the problem will be resolved soon... but if it IS Anonymous, c'mon guys, teh fuck?

But like I said, I doubt Anonymous would target the innocent consumer when their beef lies with Sony. as long as PSN is restored and it doesn't affect anyone's accounts in any adverse way (I want all my trophies, DLC, friends, money, etc. to still be there), I have no problem. Still prefer this to having to pay each month only to Red Ring (or Yellow Light or whatever the hell it is now) 5 months in.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Somehow, Netflix still works...So, I can kill time. That said, I was going to download Vagrant Story today...

 

[Remleiz]

What i find weird is that PSN is down yet i can still download patch updates for certain games just fine :S

 

[Da_Vane]

It's not Anonymous - Anonymous says so, and a bunch of 14 year-old anonymous trolls out for lulz are entirely trustworthy when they say it isn't them - because you can be damn sure if it WAS, they'd have made everyone know about how they pwned Sony by now.

 

[Kadoodle]

Why did this have to happen on spring break? I spend the first half being sick, and the second half unable to play ps3.

 

[Waaghpowa]

Well, this just goes to show you that free things never work as well as things you pay for.

In that case, let's start paying for air, must be better then. *Gets a can of Perri-Air*

Free, man-made things.

I was actually kidding, but paying for something doesn't always make it better. Like games, plenty of shitacular games out there that weren't free, they cost money. Not to mention the number of Xbox consoles that got the RROD, those weren't free either.

Free != shit, expensive != good. It's all subjective.

 

[WanderingFool]

One of the good things about Anonymous, until an actual reason or culprit is found, they are always good for blaming problems on.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Maybe they're just looking for someone to blame because their shoddy service went down

Easier to blame others than yourself.

This.

Anon is top notch when it comes to claiming responsibility. If it was them I don't doubt they would have said something by now.

Also they like to tell the public what they are going to do ahead of time.

 

[RA92]

Guys! Don't you get it? Its not Anon!

IT'S VALVE!

I mean, how many PS3 users got Portal 2, couldn't log into PSN, and then went on to activate their PC copy, saw the deals on Steam, and went on an impulse shopping spree?

Somewhere, Gabe is going, "ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO US!"