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'Anonymous' implicated in Sony PSN hack
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 4 May, 2011
Sony has submitted their written responses to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce over the massive cyber-attack that has taken down the PSN for two weeks and exposed personal info for up to 77 million gamers.
You can view the PDFs of the report, "The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers" here.
The most shocking part of the report is the fact that ... [ read the full article ]
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deak91
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4. May 2011 @ 19:21 |
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this is like Abbot and Costello...
us :so sony who did it?
sony : Anonymous
us :anonymous ? so you cant tell us ?
sony:yes we can
us : so tell us
sony : anonymous
us: i thought you said you could tell us who did it ?
sony : we did
.......... lol
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4. May 2011 @ 19:27 |
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LOL
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A5J4DX
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4. May 2011 @ 19:55 |
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damn
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g_slide
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4. May 2011 @ 20:07 |
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I think Sony is blaming "Anonymous" to point a particular group that Sony game users already have mix feelings about from the most recent hack that they done prior to this. I think Sony is trying persuade everyone to hate hackers and modders, but the group that did this are no different from terrorist. Who knows, I could be wrong and it was "Anonymous" or someone from their team that took it upon themselves to branch out and conduct the hack on the PSN to still our information or that individual could have sold the information to another hacker group.
After this is all said and done, I'm sure there are going to be a lot of people who hate the word "hacker or modder" and react to it like it's taboo. At least I'm sure that is what Sony is planning to plant into people's mind.
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brockie
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4. May 2011 @ 20:29 |
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@g_slide why would they need to plant it in peoples minds its obvious all this crap started over hacking, Sony can not make me think or feel anything. anyways hope who ever did this is getting closer to being found & put in jail for many years.
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statomike
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4. May 2011 @ 21:17 |
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"Professional" and "Anonymous" are mutually exclusive.
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biglo30
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4. May 2011 @ 23:50 |
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Originally posted by g_slide:
I think Sony is blaming "Anonymous" to point a particular group that Sony game users already have mix feelings about from the most recent hack that they done prior to this. I think Sony is trying persuade everyone to hate hackers and modders, but the group that did this are no different from terrorist. Who knows, I could be wrong and it was "Anonymous" or someone from their team that took it upon themselves do branch out and conduct the hack on the PSN to still our information or that individual could have sold the information to another hacker group.
After this is all said and done, I'm sure there are going to be a lot of people who hate the word "hacker or modder" and react to it like it's taboo. At least I'm sure that is what Sony is planning to plant into people's mind.
Agreed, good statement, but for some reason I still don't believe it was Anonymous, I think they just said it to cover themselves because they know Anonymous made threats against them and did a few ddos attacks on them.
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5. May 2011 @ 00:45 |
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If Anonymous are the ones responsible, they would have already taking credit. Hell, you see what they did to HSG. These guys don't stray from the limelight. More Sony BS. What a terrible company
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5. May 2011 @ 01:26 |
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ah let the snow balling begin.
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5. May 2011 @ 01:56 |
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I'd like to see this evidence first rather than take their word for it. Rather than play the blame game just get the PSN back up already.
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brockie
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5. May 2011 @ 02:05 |
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Sony have not said Anonymous were responsible ffs it was a message left on one of the servers, plus if you think they would own up to this your stupid this is going to get whoever did it in huge trouble if they ever catch the scum.
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5. May 2011 @ 04:07 |
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It really makes no difference if some member of anonymous did this or if some independent party did it. Anonymous the group DIDN'T do it because Anonymous THE GROUP only exists for denial of service attacks. Actual infiltration attacks need to be kept small to minimize the amount of attention.
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ps3lvanub
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5. May 2011 @ 04:14 |
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Originally posted by brockie:
Sony have not said Anonymous were responsible ffs it was a message left on one of the servers, plus if you think they would own up to this your stupid this is going to get whoever did it in huge trouble if they ever catch the scum.
Correct. Sony have been clever about this. They have blamed Anonymous without actually blaming Anonymous. I do not think Anonymous did this. At the end of the day most of the members are human rights activists with intermediate computer skills. Whoever did this was working individually, working solely for profit and wanted a scapegoat and there it was, ready made: Anonymous.
Then again Sony are probably still feeling sore after a group of ameteurs DDoS'ed some of their sites. For all we know Sony could have planted that file themselves for revenge. It may cause a lot of trouble for Anonymous.
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5. May 2011 @ 05:56 |
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It would be actually make me feel comfortable if it was Anonymous.
Anonymous act in a strange way but usually, for the better. If it was Anonymous and they did get the database for all the details, I'm pretty sure that they won't use them because it's all about consumer rights, right?
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5. May 2011 @ 06:44 |
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Originally posted by kikzm33z:
It would be actually make me feel comfortable if it was Anonymous.
Anonymous act in a strange way but usually, for the better. If it was Anonymous and they did get the database for all the details, I'm pretty sure that they won't use them because it's all about consumer rights, right?
Don't feel better...anonymous does not work this way...they do digital picket lines...that is all. The person or persons who did this might be member(s) of anonymous...but that does not mean that anonymous attacked Sony.
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I should rephrase that last line..."that does not mean that anonymous attacked Sony THIS TIME"
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jeff_2
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5. May 2011 @ 09:02 |
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In my humble opinion, perhaps Sony should not be annoying the group Anonymous. As anonymous already has some negative feelings towards Sony. They may find themselves under attack soon from Anonymous, purely as revenge, for falsely accusing them of participation in this incident.
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plazma247
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5. May 2011 @ 09:22 |
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Mysttic
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5. May 2011 @ 09:29 |
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Gnawnivek
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5. May 2011 @ 10:10 |
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Please do us a favor, don't link anything from arstechnica. You just discredit yourself when you quoting info from them.
Peace!
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baxter00
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5. May 2011 @ 10:30 |
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Originally posted by brockie:
Sony have not said Anonymous were responsible ffs it was a message left on one of the servers, plus if you think they would own up to this your stupid this is going to get whoever did it in huge trouble if they ever catch the scum.
They said there was a file called 'Anonymous' on one of the servers. I think that's why they are blaming them. Of course, anyone could put a file of any name on there.
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aztecs619
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5. May 2011 @ 10:51 |
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guy they says that unit the hackers give the information were they hack it then that went sony is going to put online serves back.
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5. May 2011 @ 11:11 |
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Anonymous thats who sony named so later they can fill in the name john doe or jane doe its a way around naming other just yet see they can laters say the have discovered the true I.D. of Anonymous . this always leave it open to add name of people they think and then they have to have lawyers and go broke trying to clear their names ... or go to jail.. next they will check with the riaa to get a list of dead people to sue...... so sad.....
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evnflow03
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5. May 2011 @ 11:54 |
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all that can be read into this, is that sony has found an escape goat and it's called, Anonymous..are you kidding me?!?!?! it's the perfect setup..they just had an attack...and alllllllll of a sudden...they are the ones to blame..are you kiddining me?!?! sony screwed up and they are trying to pass the blame..they know and we know it..when you sign up for the psn network..sony takes full responsibility for the security of the information passed to them..paypal is responsible for all transactions through their systems..what makes sony so different?
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SomeBozo
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5. May 2011 @ 12:00 |
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Originally posted by statomike:
"Professional" and "Anonymous" are mutually exclusive.
I wouldn't say they are.
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