Unless you think hurting one company you deem bad outweighs hurting a million innocent private citizens, then your priorities are a bit messed up.
Unpleasant is the word your choosing to use? Having my credit card information that links to my bank account, and the only bank account I have, and then having that fucked with is more than unpleasant. I'm thankful when the PSN network was compromised I wasn't one of those people with the claims of large sums of money being circulated out of the bank. ( Yes I know, could easily be coincidental evidence. Not the point. )
By all means the cause is more than plausible with Sony's abysmal track record. The methods are absurd and obnoxious, but by all means keep hiding behind this tired old excuse that the end result is to hurt Sony. The people you're trying to help will have no sympathy when you're caught and sentenced.
Irritating, painful, expensive? Choose your favorite word to describe your experience as a Sony customer, I guess.
but by all means keep hiding behind this tired old excuse that the end result is to hurt Sony
It's not an excuse, it's a hope. I sincerely hope that this will hurt Sony's bottom line in the near future. I hope that some time soon, the general public will associate Sony with being screwed over, and that they factor that in with the price of that shiny PS3 they want. I hope that Sony will be humbled and beg customers to come back, rather than treating them like shit. This is hardly the first time Sony's customers have been screwed by Sony's customer-hostile policies, so I don't expect it, but I certainly do hope for it.
The people you're trying to help will have no sympathy when you're caught and sentenced.
When I'm caught and sentenced? For schadenfreude, or do you think I'm behind this attack? My handle is easily associated with my meatspace ID; if anybody that mattered thought I was behind this, I'd most certainly be chatting with the FBI right now instead of with you.
Disruptive. I've been going paperless( in regards to money )since 2008, this was a flat out disruption on my day to day life.
>This is hardly the first time Sony's customers have been screwed by Sony's customer-hostile policies, so I don't expect it, but I certainly do hope for it.
Sony's abysmal history is public knowledge, that still had little choice in the limited choice I had with buying a gaming system.
>When I'm caught and sentenced? For schadenfreude, or do you think I'm behind this attack? Kudos for missing that hyperbole.
By all means keep downvoting me. How many of you disagreeing with my point about the extremity of these methods were effected by any this? That's what I thought.
1) Sony would just accuse them of lying and people (the general public) would just believe Sony over a bunch of anonymous hackers.
2) Change doesn't happen unless people get off their butts. This is a way to motivate that change.
I don't necessarily agree with it, but you're talking as if there is no logic behind this other than recklessness.
"This is disgraceful and insecure: they were asking for it."
I get it, they have poor security, as a customer, this makes me really angry. But the general tone there is kind of similar to what you get when people accuse rape victims of being complicit in the rape. "She was askin' for it!"
Not when there are hostile state actors who have presumably been enjoying that access for years without publishing it. These guys just told us about it.
Blaming victims for rape is dangerous because it discourages victims from coming forward, and adds to intense feelings of shame and guilt that come with sexual violation. It also tends to come with suggestions that women should restrict their behavior, not seeking to be attractive or acting in 'risky' stereotypically male ways.
Criticizing a cooperation for failing to follow security best practice, and speculating about the effect of outsourcing or technology is completely different. I'd say that as a lot of people here run websites, it's probably a good idea too.
Sony has been targeted for several major intrusions lately and I'm certain they have lost a great deal of money because of it.
Now if hackers want to damage Sony, how about finding a way that doesn't also involve millions of regular people in the process.
I got my one and only Sony product (PS3) because I use it for something. Not because I support Sony in every decision they make, and I definitely think they should do something about that joke for security they have going on.
But why should the user be punished and shat on by some idiot hackers just because he/she decided they wanted a cheap system to play games on, for example?
They could do a million things to hurt Sony financially instead of fucking over millions of end users who aren't connected to the company at all. (I'm counting all the affected users of all the latest Sony attacks, in case someone has a problem with the figures.)
Also, I think they chose to release the stolen data out of ill-will towards Sony rather than it being an attempt to point out security flaws. Because if security flaws where the real issue they attack Sony, then they wouldn't release the info to everyone since that seems quite counter intuitive.
These companies are fucking stupid and the only way to make them change their ways is to kick them in the balls and piss on them while they're down. Otherwise, nothing happens and others who were less kind don't tell them and harvest the data unbeknownst to anybody. How's that for "real issues"? The real issue is the companies fucking suck and it pisses us off when they don't do a goddamn thing when we report it to them.
I agree that Sony should be taken to task here, but even the simple step of randomizing the password field would be a good idea.