While, Anonymous certainly stepped in it. Not only do they bungle their attacks by hurting users instead of Sony, but they hand Sony an automatic scapegoat for future outages.
PSN Down Worldwide; Is Anonymous to Blame?
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That's what happens when you do things the way Anon does. I'm not saying I don't agree with their choice of certain targets, but when you have a history like they do you have to accept that you are going to be fingered for things you may not even have a hand in.
Not that Anon are necessarily terrorists, and if they are they are certainly not Al Quaida, but the same thing happens there. Any time there's any sort of terrorist attack, the assumption is that it's been perpetrated by Al Quaida. With Anon's recent monkeying with Sony it's easy to see why they would get the instant blame.
Not that Anon are necessarily terrorists, and if they are they are certainly not Al Quaida, but the same thing happens there. Any time there's any sort of terrorist attack, the assumption is that it's been perpetrated by Al Quaida. With Anon's recent monkeying with Sony it's easy to see why they would get the instant blame.
Have they clearly demonstrated that they attack their own servers? What exactly would they stand to gain by doing this?drunken_munki said:
1. Removing backwards compatibility from PS3ArmorArmadillo said:
2. PS3 and games pricing in EU... You pay more for the hardware and are behind on game releases.
3. Installing root kits onto user's PCs
4. Sony fuck up PSN for the pre-slim PS3s
5. Sony dropping Linux on PS3
Apart from that, no they are AMAZING!!!1111wda
Well, to be honest, it occured to me that I couldn't see anything else Anonymous could do against Sony given their sphere of influance other than to attack things like PSN. In the end the only viable way to attack Sony short of some kind of massive armed assault on their corperate facilities, is to go after their customers and cost them money. You deny people access to PSN, demonstrate Sony can't protect them, and those people are going to leave the network and find other online services to use for gaming and so on. Sony winds up in a position where it either concedes and gives their online assailants whatever is being demanded, or winds up taking a bath and pretty much having to give up on the entire online sector.HankMan said:
I commented on this when I read about Anonymous' statement about not going after the innocent users anymore, how else are they going to do anything to Sony?
It's very possible they changed their mind, or maybe never made that annoucement to begin with. It's also possible with a group like Anonymous that there isn't a total consensus.
Anonymous is like an elemental force of chaos, it's kind of unpredictable, one moment they are wearing the "Hacktivist" hat, the next they are making miseries out of the online existances of people who got their attention.
In keeping with the spirit of Anonymous, they themselves say that they really don't have any kind of serious agenda overall, and I don't think anyone ever accused them of being honorable or reliable. That could be changing, but it's the kind of thing that comes with time, right now I can't say that I'd be shocked to learn that Anonymous was responsible for the PSN attack.
It's also quite possible that we'll never know if it was them or not, if PSN was attacked. While Anonymous loves their annoucements, there is no rule saying they have to broadcast everything they are doing. If I was a hacker going up against a major technology company like Sony, and wanted to do it seriously, I certainly wouldn't be telegraphing my moves, or jumping around going "it's me!!!". Like it or not Sony is one of the big boys out there, who set the standards for technology, it's not like going up against Gene Simmons, or even the "Operation Titstorm" thing against Australia. Sony is the kind of group you'd expect to have the experts that a nation in serious trouble would want to hire.
Goddammit. That's what's going on.
If it's hackers, seriously, fuck you, hackers. If you make me purchase XBox live again, I'm going to find you and poop on your beds and eat all your toothpaste.
If it's hackers, seriously, fuck you, hackers. If you make me purchase XBox live again, I'm going to find you and poop on your beds and eat all your toothpaste.
I personally feel that pooping in their toothpaste and eating their beds would send more of a message.Harry Mason said:
I'm with you though. If it is hackers, well one I have to applaud them for taking down an entire sector of a large companies' online system, and two I'd probably round-house kick random people untill I felt like I hit one of the ones who did it.
