cardinalwiggles said:
i always understood it as if you target the user's then the user's wise up and sony has to pay the brunt of it. the PSN attack got users details but it also cost sony a hell of alot in costs and trying to win their user's trust back with free games, not to mention the lost sales.
That can be easily accomplished without stealing a single iota of personal data. Just do the exact same thing the hackers/crackers/whatever did, except leave the customer's data alone. Continue to do so, if need be, to prove your point.
these continued attacks are probably just to kick the company while it's down to show incompetence accross the board.
You know, there have been so many claims of Sony didn't update their servers, Sony ran up to date servers, Sony stored the info in plaintext, Sony encrypted their data, that I really don't care anymore. It's either incompetence on Sony's part, of extreme-competence on the hackers part, and I really don't know which is scarier.
perhaps show some sort of contempt from sony to their customers data. i wouldn't be surprised if the data isn't used for anything. it will cost sony alot more than it would cost the consumer.
Yes, the millions of user data now online will not hurt the consumer at all.
I can't believe that these hackers/crackers are doing this just to show "contempt" for Sony. If they truly wanted to stick the point to Sony, they wouldn't have stolen a single bit of information. Instead, they decided to steal from 70+ million people. That's some pretty screwed up way to get people on your side.
theres a point and a limit to these attacks and to be fair they need to end now with a statement. saying that it's over. we need confirmation otherwise continued attacks could be anyone. besides it's just a banner that hackers have gathered under, it will die down and be "uncool" soon enough.
What kind of "statement" could they make? "Yes, we are rallying against Sony's mistreatment of consumer rights by stealing said consumer's private secured information! That will show them!"
i for one am sad that this is the type of way that gets people's attention
Again, I would be more supportive of these hackers/crackers if they had not stolen a single bit of personal info. That would show restraint, that would show altruism. As it stands, they are assholes of the highest caliber. If they wanted to get attention like this, I don't think the personal data would have been needed.