Originally posted by allamerican:

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Originally posted by Joepet2000:

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Way to go Sony. Make 300M Americans happy and piss off the rest of the world (including the Edited).

Who's running this company....

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You know what, Edited you limy Edited/euro Edited.
Seal Team Six is on speed dial and AD was more then happy
to provide your IPA.

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Originally posted by Frogfart:

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Originally posted by allamerican:

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Originally posted by Joepet2000:

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Way to go Sony. Make 300M Americans happy and piss off the rest of the world (including the Edited).

Who's running this company....

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You know what, Edited you limy Edited/euro Edited.
Seal Team Six is on speed dial and AD was more then happy
to provide your IPA.

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Who let Allamerican out of the trailer park? Was it to go and visit his half-sister on Death Row at the State Penn or was it to visit his retard cousin Cletus. Better get back to your trailer Leeroy cos some good old boy is giving it to your woman.
Come back ya all!!! Allamerican is an embarrassment to his country.

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Originally posted by Mrguss:

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Sony was running unpatched Apache with no firewall for months before breach:
http://goo.gl/fb/GFZJ3

Sony shares dropped 4.5% to their lowest level in seven weeks in Tokyo today (5-6-11):
http://j.mp/j9S6H7

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The professor who got all his information from forums... Not from any hands on knowledge or experience.

From ~ http://www.industrygamers.com/news/playstation-network-disaster-key-parts-had-no-firewall-installed/

"Worse yet, Spafford noted that key parts of PSN actually ran on Apache servers that "were unpatched and had no firewall installed." He said that this was known because of comments in a forum frequently visited by Sony employees."

Check that last sentence. And these forum posts were from four months ago. Sony employees frequently visit NeoGAF, that doesn't mean the information was provided by them or that the information suddenly becomes valid.

Also, Sony already provided documentation that shows that they had firewalls in place: http://www.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Diagram-Hack-600x476.jpg

What Sony actually said was that the vulnerability was known "to the world" - i.e. it was not a zero-day exploit - but that they themselves were not aware of it, or that it might be an issue. Now it might be fair to call Sony ignorant for not being aware of this, however there are SO MANY exploits that are "known to the world" and it's probably near-impossible to protect against all of them, or even know about them.

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Originally posted by Frogfart:

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What about those customers not living in the USA? Is there a hierarchy of customers that are more important to Sony than others? Does identity fraud not happen in Europe? Sony just seem to be a load of Edited with no thought for their customers rights or security. This will be a public relations disaster.

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Both Kazuo Hirai and Sir Howard Stringer have stated that we will be offering identity theft protection for those affected by the malicious attack on PlayStation Network and many of you may have seen the details of the service available in North America.

As I have explained previously, creating a similar offering for the many countries within the SCEE region is a very complicated process. Each country has a different way of handling identity theft; some offer relatively sophisticated services whilst others are much more modest.

We are currently in the process of identifying how we manage this situation and once the programme is ready to launch, we will provide details of exactly which services are available in each country and explain how to sign up. We hope to do this early next week.

Also, look out for more information on the rest of our Welcome Back programme, including which free content you will be eligible for. We will be offering PSN users the opportunity to select two PS3 games from a list of five, as well as offering PSP users the opportunity to choose two games from a list of four. We will let you know exactly what games are available very soon.

Please be assured that we are continuing to work around the clock to have some PlayStation Network and Qriocity services restored and will provide you with specific details shortly.

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Originally posted by KillerBug:

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I am dumbfounded. BTW...shouldn't the story have a link to sign up?

Here is the link from the Debix website:
https://www.allclearid.com/sony

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I just read a bit more closely...you can only get the protection by getting a code that sony is emailing out to the email address associated with the account...and Sony hasn't emailed my anything since the 27th.

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