My friend if The Escapist had a badge for making understatements, i'd definitely recommend you for it. Call me a cynical bastard, but Sony left a narcoleptic alcoholic at their switch.Kopikatsu said:
Sony Website Hacked By the "Lulz Boat"
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Theirs a difference between hacking things you own, hacking things for a good cause, and being a dick.Dr. wonderful said:
These guys are the latter.
I hope these hackers get sued or arrested or something. What they are doing is theft, pure and simple. It doesen't matter, in their mind, if it's for a good cause or not. It's just plain stealing. Im sick of this train of logic that hackers use to justify showing off or trying to be bad asses.
I hope these guys, and the guys responsible for the recent PSN attack get pursued with the fullest extent of the law. They are not helping anyone, not the companies and certainly not the gamers who's information may very well have been stolen.
I hope these guys, and the guys responsible for the recent PSN attack get pursued with the fullest extent of the law. They are not helping anyone, not the companies and certainly not the gamers who's information may very well have been stolen.
From what I've seen, all that's been published is e-mail addresses, and passwords.
Also, it appears that in this recent release, it's only users of sonypictures.com, and (as a plus for some) there are only TWO ".co.uk" addresses in the entire list.
Also, it appears that in this recent release, it's only users of sonypictures.com, and (as a plus for some) there are only TWO ".co.uk" addresses in the entire list.
The only way Sony could look any worse at this point is if they were the one hacking their own company.
At first I was only mildly sympathetic for Sony, but now I just outright pity them. Just because one group hacked them, suddenly every douchebag on the internet has to do it? "Yes, let's demonstrate that Sony is the bad guy by stealing the personal info of over a million people!" Not malicious my ass. The "lesson" is redundant, and in my opinion, is just an excuse to give the company the shaft without being the "bad guys."
That's the thing, Sony isn't the one who is paying here; it's the consumers. If they really wanted to make a clear-cut point, they wouldn't have (allegedly) stolen people's information and would have either A) targeted the higher ups, B) warn Sony what they could potentially do with the info, or maybe the nicest (I.E. least likely) option C) contact Sony directly and work with them to improve security.will1182 said:
Sony may deserve this, but the consumers don't. They even have the audacity to demand money from the very people they are stealing with. Either way, the consumers are being buttfucked by two bullies.
" All of the personal information that LulzSec were able to steal despite meager means is now posted online, along with a press release stating their intention was merely to call out Sony's botched security measures."
This is the biggest dbag statement in the history of the internet...
This is the biggest dbag statement in the history of the internet...
This shit is so annoying. First, why aren't you encrypting data better Sony? I don't know anything about it, but I can't help but feel you are not doing all you can at this point.
Also, stop being dicks. I used to work with behaviorally disturbed kids and there was a basic rule: If you do something you know will make them violent, then they are not completely at fault. Stop being douche bags and digital tyrants.
This hacking shit is obnoxious. All this is going to do is lead to internet controlling legislation and invasion of privacy. These "lulz" guys should all be lined up and shot, anyone who steals data should really. I know that if I caught a guy in my house without all the lights on, looking through my shit, someone would be going to the hospital and it wouldn't be me.
Also, stop being dicks. I used to work with behaviorally disturbed kids and there was a basic rule: If you do something you know will make them violent, then they are not completely at fault. Stop being douche bags and digital tyrants.
This hacking shit is obnoxious. All this is going to do is lead to internet controlling legislation and invasion of privacy. These "lulz" guys should all be lined up and shot, anyone who steals data should really. I know that if I caught a guy in my house without all the lights on, looking through my shit, someone would be going to the hospital and it wouldn't be me.
I agree that LulzSec's intentions were likely not "to show vulnerability", but data security is fairly simple (at least in regard to the exploit they used).Kopikatsu said:
Sony could have fixed this, fairly easily, in a couple of ways.
First (and this is a stupid basic concept in security), do not store all your data in the same place. Require user validation for first access, to things like username and password, then require another round of user validation to access personal information, and yet another to access opt-in data. That kind of thing would have made their hack retrieve only the topmost layer, which is just username and password (and if the passwords were properly encrypted, that won't get them much).
Second, encrypt the stupid passwords. All you have to do is apply a simple algorithm before you save it somewhere. The easiest way is to simply hash the value (ie, translate the string into a number through some fancy math: basically you take each letter's ASCII value, give it an exponent based on the length of the string and then add all the numbers together) and store the hash, but there are much more complex algorithms out there that are much more secure than that.
The playstation store has been up for hours and hours. I've already downloaded like fifty gazillion demos off it. The NA customer appreciation plan probably won't be going into effect until the 4th, though.Kysafen said:
Okay, it's only $40, BUT WHO THE HELL IS GIVING THEM MONEY? $20 an hour is more than I make, dammit.LulzSec The Lulz Boat
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