PSN Phasing Back Into Existence With Enhanced Security
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So in other words SONY was running pretty much no security metrics and reviewing no logs while it operated a 75 million user consumer network and online retail store. WAY TO GO IT TEAM!!!.Tom Goldman said:
Sorry guys but it is going to take a bit more than some half assed "customer appreciation giveaways". You distributed my personal financial information, given to you in trust, to the planet. You forced me to make personal banking and security changes to compensate for your errors in not maintaining a properly secured environment, and you have vastly exposed my personal information to fraud theft and criminal activity that can have long ranging consequences in my life. (cause "identity theft victim" is always so helpful when you go to buy a new car or refi a house). Some of these may seem trivial but the fact is that this event already has an undesired real world impact on the 75 million SONY customers. The horse is out of the barn so to speak. And these 75 million victims will not be satisfied with 30 days "free" PSN+ and a free copy of "Cahoots". (or some similar undesirable DLC shovelware.)
You misstate the facts. Sony didn't "distribute" the information. Not in the sense that by way of error on their part, they inadvertently distributed the information. While that has happened in other cases, that isn't what happened in this case. In this case, Sony is itself a victim. It is a victim of cyber-crime. That's how the information was lost. Sony didn't "distribute" it. Rather, it was stolen from Sony.faefrost said:
Your personal information and credit card details weren't, aren't and won't ever be safe anywhere on the Internet or in real life. I'm not being paranoid. Paranoid people worry about Van Eck phreaking. This is simply true.
So I appreciate this. The damage is done, the best we can do now is to not make the same mistakes again.
I'm going to be a lot more careful with my data from now on, and then I'm probably going to forget about it after a month or so. There's always a risk of fraud when you use personal information and credit card details online, but it's so very convenient.
[sub]Free swag is nice too.[/sub]
If an issue is cretinously divided into "us" and "them," all that usually results from that is the truly important parts of the issue, which are all the parts that lie between "us" and "them," become drowned out by the voices of "us" and "them."FreedomofInformation said:
"Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." -- Shakespeare
Some hacker on this planet must be very impressed by himself with all the news of his work getting around.
See, while I am glad that Sony are tightening up their security, these hackers have further fucked us.
Thanks to all of this, developers and publishers alike will now have an even bigger excuse to plug in restrictive DRMs, putting more online activations, code entries, what have you. It's the complete opposite of what GeoHotz and other legitimate hackers wanted, and I would not be surprised if Sony will become much more aggressive to people they find hacking anything theirs.
So, thanks a lot you fucking bastard asshole shitheads. You've just set back progress another couple of years, and I don't think we're going to come out of that any time soon.
Thanks to all of this, developers and publishers alike will now have an even bigger excuse to plug in restrictive DRMs, putting more online activations, code entries, what have you. It's the complete opposite of what GeoHotz and other legitimate hackers wanted, and I would not be surprised if Sony will become much more aggressive to people they find hacking anything theirs.
So, thanks a lot you fucking bastard asshole shitheads. You've just set back progress another couple of years, and I don't think we're going to come out of that any time soon.
Regiment said:
Depends on what you buy. Add-ons are kept with you forever, like map packs and such, and anything you buy discounted is also with you forever. Free games expire until the subscription puts up, though if you get the full year then I don't see why you wouldn't just buy the game already (though we're not talking about a full year, so whatever).That Guy Who Phails said:
You'd never know that from reading the OP's article though, would you? The way they tell the story, none of Sony's executives -- much less the No. 2 executive who is rumored to be the one about to given the No. 1 position of CEO -- showed their faces in public much less publicly admitted their shame. You'd be left with the impression that all they've done is issue a "press release" from behind closed doors.Shadie777 said:
I guess I'll save my acceptance level unjtil after I hear details here. This better be more than offering those PS3 Sonic ports free again.
Still annoying that the store is coming back last as that's what I use online for, and that does raise some questions about extended usability. I still have a DLC code I didnèt get to redeem. Even though I extremely doubt it, will I be able to redeem it when the netwrok returns, or since that runs through the store, will I have to waitÉ I ask less for me, but because I imagine a lot of people wanted to play Mortal Kombat online, but that requires redeeming a DLC code for an online pass many may not have had the time to redeem yet.
Oh well, I will be paitently waiting for Dragons Lair 2 (supposed to be out the week after things went down the toilet) and I can give that music system a go.
Still annoying that the store is coming back last as that's what I use online for, and that does raise some questions about extended usability. I still have a DLC code I didnèt get to redeem. Even though I extremely doubt it, will I be able to redeem it when the netwrok returns, or since that runs through the store, will I have to waitÉ I ask less for me, but because I imagine a lot of people wanted to play Mortal Kombat online, but that requires redeeming a DLC code for an online pass many may not have had the time to redeem yet.
Oh well, I will be paitently waiting for Dragons Lair 2 (supposed to be out the week after things went down the toilet) and I can give that music system a go.
They could cut as much as they wanted it but it wouldn't make me move to an inferior console.Airsoftslayer93 said:
Besides all this Sony stuff is overblown by the media, Sony hasn't announced for definite that our details have been nicked. It's a possibility but it hasn't been confirmed.
Also this free stuff pleases me.
Again and this could just be me, but if you really want to impress me that my home security is vulnerable, then breaking into my house and stealing my shit isn't the way to go about doing so. I'd be too busy kicking the stuffing outta the thief, if and when I laid hands on them, to be bothered listening to anything they've got to say.Thedek said:
