Sony Declines to Appear Before U.S. Congress
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It's unproven. You can't say someone is guilty of negligence just for being hacked and they're recovering from the whole thing in a matter of weeks, that's a pretty short amount of time for something like this. I see no reason why they have to appear in front of a hearing until it's proven they have actually commited a crime, based on their press statements and the sheer insanity of a huge company like Sony storing personal information in plain text or skimping on security I have no reason to believe what they've said isn't true. They should answer questions but no more than that, they aren't criminals yet at least so shouldn't be treated as such.Dys said:
Geographically Australia is huge. Plus our dollar (and to a lesser effect our economy) is super strong at the moment, so we're on a roll. Don't dismiss Australia; we may be far away, but as a nation we're involved in a lot of things. Maybe getting involved in US congress is going a step too far though.Merkavar said:
So like most governments the American government cant multitask or shouldn't in your opinion?Baresark said:
Its these same statements that make no sense on the level when people complain about the police showing up to do their jobs last month when a bunch of people were given a years ample time to remove their basketball hoops of which they never use from the curbs of roads because of a city ordinance they didn't vote against and pretty much ignored..The government is capable of doing quite a few different things this happens to be one of them...but maybe the government should stop as a whole to concentrate on wars in the world and then american can descend into hell...because the stuff usually regulated by the government and metered by the government no longer is...
Will you go out and stop the roving bands of rioters whom can't get their welfare, social security...etc because you decided the government should stop working on many things and work on just one thing you think is supposedly important?
Breach of contract is indeed a crime, however 2 key points occur to me.Dys said:
1) International law is a mess. Its one of the reasons its ok for the oil companies to price fix on something I spend £40/week and rising but morrisons get their ass slapped for price fixing something I spend £10/mo on.
2) I'd bet my ass there is a clause in that contract that says "we can withdraw the service whenever we feel like it". Lets face it, Sony took the PSN down to stop any more data theft. I'd say thats a GOOD thing. I'm sure they covered themselves so that they can't be sued just because their service went down.
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Sony do have to answer for what they have done. I personally think they WERE negligent, not because they were hacked but because they were hacked and lost EVERYTHING. You hear about places like amazon getting hacked and they say "we lost 200,000 customer details" and such. Sony lost their entire DB and didn't notice. Potentially this could probably happen to any company but if we don't investigate for all we know Sony's internal security policy could be "print personal details on everything we hand out".
I guess Sony's just going to phone it in, much like their security.
Now, before I get blasted for that terrible joke, I have an old SOE account and a PSN account, so my conflicting public records data is out there for the world to see.
Now, before I get blasted for that terrible joke, I have an old SOE account and a PSN account, so my conflicting public records data is out there for the world to see.
That's pretty much it. A few politicians want to be seen asking Sony hard questions.Nieroshai said:
And Sony has played it damn smart. They're answering the questions put to them as quickly as possible (making it tough for a glory-seeking politician to claim their hiding something) and claiming the situation requires their full attention.
Over-all, Sony is playing a bad situation pretty well. There's no way a company comes out ahead on this, but after a slow start (perhaps due to them honestly not knowing the full extent of the hacking) they've pretty much thrown themselves on their own sword. The key to situations like this is not to be seen protecting your own interests over the interests of those affected and they've not really been caught out on that since they admitted the security breach.
At least they don't have other people's papers to cheat off of............because other companies passed the class and didn't have to take this extra test.Sober Thal said:Also, thanks gamerguy473 for the link to the questions.
I hope Sony answers honestly.
I believe removing product abilities after launch is a crime in the EU though. No idea about the US.JDKJ said:
Australia is acting on it because this affects its people. It has every right to enforce laws on how companies operate. I believe a government should be commended for looking at all facets of its duties. And we aren't THAT small.Merkavar said:
The Privacy policy look at it this way the Reality Hacker has your info and thats breaching the Privacy policy no matter what way you look at it.