Anonymous Gets Serious, Attacks Sony Employees

Infamous hacking group, Anonymous, began a series of attacks against Sony earlier today, bringing down several Sony sites and the PlayStation Network. However, a radical offshoot of the main group believe that the attacks aren't enough, and are prepared to take the fight to a more severe level.

[movements]

So who's this helping? Thanks Anonymous - also known as "cowards hiding behind masks". You will only bring down to hell the reputation of the one you claim you're helping, Geohot - a reputation that was already tarnished.

But fight if you must because in the end you WILL lose. Fight like children who never grew up. Children who stayed in their parents basements like zombies with no souls. Go ahead with your vigilante war - and we'll see who wins and lose in the end. Hint - it's you.

I'd advice all of you clowns to get wives....Because apparently you all are in desperate need of companionship. Women to help relieve the stress of paranoid personality disorder. Narcissism and double-mindedness. Crazy set of....God bridle my tongue!

[TheHater]

Just might want to watch what you say to these guys. If they can hack Sony security system, just imagine what they can do to you.

[Elyxir-pSx]

Hackers-3
Sony-0

[DeeZee]

If they start acting their critics, that would be an even bigger problem.

[a_bro]

"Just might want to watch what you say to these guys. If they can hack Sony security system, just imagine what they can do to you."

oh just imagine how the FBI comes out their party vans and knock on their doors....

[evrfighter]

Thehater is right. As wrong as it sounds I'm sure you wouldn't want your ss#, credit card#, etc. Posted up here for everyone to see.

Playing the internet tough guy is fine and dandy since your anonymous. But we are talking about people who can push you back.

I can guarantee a couple of em are browsing here to see the extent of their damage.

[MAJ0R]

so when they say target do they mean kill or just deface and hack them

[TheHater]

Just a Ddos attack? I wasn't aware of that little details. Thanks for clearing that up.

[ChrisW]

Honestly, I hope GeoHotz is personally asking them to stop. They are not helping his case at all... Not that he had a great chance of winning, but such attacks might make the repercussions of his actions even more harsh.

[Biggest]

"Playing the internet tough guy is fine and dandy since your anonymous. But we are talking about people who can push you back."

Did you slap yourself when you typed that? You're saying that the group that named themselves Anonymous are the tough guys that can push back? You can post my SSN if you want. I'll have my number tracked and protected. You can have my credit card number. I'll have it cancelled and tracked. You can have my address and phone number. It won't change anything in either of our lives. They'll still be freaks in the basement and I'll still be a productive member of society.

[goflyakite]

"sony , the judge and sonys lawyers are all valid targets"

A judge? ROLF!

[xxBiG_BoSSxx]

exactly. i'm not sure what they hope to accomplish with this. they're just pranks. what fear is there? these tactics wouldn't intimidate or irreversibly harm anyone over the age of 15. it all just seems childish. a waste of time and a waste of their intelligence.

[wsoutlaw87]

anonymous is really bad at being anonymous.they think the fact that they do ddos attacks makes people afraid. Oh no the web site was down what bad asses. Now they have guys bragging about it and trying to really piss some one off. I'm guessing trying to find info on some guys kids isn't going to go over well with too many people. I had no problem with them DEFENDING wikileaks but not they're just getting whiny and cocky.

[Focker420]

Intimidating a government official.... good luck with that

[MaxXAttaxX]

Are they not aware that their actions affect the end-user?

[il-mouzer]

@ a_bro

are you aware that the FBI only has jurisdiction on US soil? plus it's not as easy as seen on your movies to track down someone on the internet

[Krimson-Rage]

They're for the "freedom for the exchange of information" - I'm exchanging the information that they're irresponsible children doing more harm to George Hotz than 'good' and that they don't really care, despite their pious protestations. It's all a game to them.

[RedDragan]

They are not doing this for the people.

More and more I see this this phrase being used in relation to Anonymous. I think there entire message is starting to fall apart and they are losing what little support they may have had.

@il_mouzer.... yes, it is that easy for the intelligence agencies to track these people down. They have done it before in the only time they bothered to track them, and found the main culprits very, very quickly. No amount of 7 proxies will hide them, these hackers are up against people with far more talent than themselves which is why those folks work for the intelligence agencies and the Anon hackers do not.

[Lord_Doggington]

I guess as long as they're not pirating software, this is acceptable. :)

[TLG1991]

@TheHater

if there is nothing on the interent about yourself or any personal details such as credit cards (paypal) what can they possibly do so harm

[Pwee]

hack our n4g account?, shlt son.

[I_find_it_funny]

This only turns more people against geoHot and such

[nveenio]

First of all, we haven't actually seen them do anything that can be attributed to their actions. Sure, some sites went down. But that can happen because of too much traffic. Anyone can perform that type of attack. When they hack the Sony.com site to include nothing but a photo that says, "Anonymous was here", I'll believe that they're not playing around.

But let's say that they ARE serious. How do they think this will help Geo? Do they think Sony will back off? All this will do is show that the hacking community is not beyond (and actually intent on) causing financial harm to Sony. It actually makes Sony's case stronger.

If anyone should back off from attacks, it's Anonymous. If they're THAT concerned, and if they're THAT smart, they should put a case against Sony. They should go to the Supreme Court and deem the ability to copyright information as unconstitutional (if they actually believe that doing so isn't completely retarded).

The worst thing is that these guys always put in their cracks something like, "Please don't redistribute this outside of the SCENE," or something... Stupid idiots.

[DragonKnight]

Someone should get 4Chan after these guys. They'd run upstairs to their mommies to kiss their mental owwies.

[Anon1974]

I think they're playing with fire and are about to get burned. No one is anonymous on the internet. It's only a matter of taking the time, money and effort to track down these jokers. Usually they're harmless and can be thwarted but if they persist Sony will respond. The courts gave permission for Sony to get information from Twitter, Youtube and Google in their case against Geohot, on top of getting information from individual IP's in the past.

My advice to these "hackers" is to make your point and then fade into the background again where no one cares. Otherwise, you will get caught. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony ramping up the lawsuits that we'll hear about in 3-4 weeks as we speak. You really think Sony doesn't have their own hackers/security experts that not only know more than you, but can track you down? I'm guessing soon "Anonymous" might consider changing their names to "Defendant".

[frostypants]

Pro-tip, hacker kids: hacking isn't difficult. Anyone with Google, a PC, and a 5th grade reading comprehension can do it. You're not impressive. Go find a better hobby.

Now, back in the old days, it was a true skill that required ingenuity and creativity. Now it's just a bunch of copycats and script kiddies. Not really hackers.

EDIT: I just read through their planned attacks. LOL!!! This stuff is NOT hacking, it's just childish pranks. OOOOOHHH...Craiglist postings and free UPS boxes! Yeah, awesome. Who WOULDN'T want to be prosecuted by Sony AND UPS AND Craigslist and spend years in prison just to play a stupid prank that won't actually change a damn thing in this trial? Brilliant plan, dumbarses!

[nveenio]

I agree. About 20 years ago, I used my first modem (top-of-the-line 14.4) to hack into the local telephone hub (or whatever it's called). I didn't get much, but a list of every phone number assigned to people. It was nothing I couldn't get out of the phone book, but it was still a success, and much harder than spoofing a bunch of traffic to a website. It took me three hours.

The funny thing was that I was reading through the phone numbers and noticed a discrepancy with one. So I dialed it. A man answered, and all he said was, "I'm sorry, but you've dialed the wrong number." I freaked out, hung up, waited about 20 seconds...dialed again. The same man answered. He said, "You have, again, dialed the wrong number." I'll never forget it. My ten-year old little brain was almost positive that I'd called a secret government facility. lol

[Blitzed]

They just threatened a judge, it's now a federal offence.

[RufustheKing]

Anonymous should be attacking peadaphile rings and chinas and Irans crack down on their own people not some arse(or ass for my american friends)called geohot. Geohot is nothing and if anything should be the target. sony do what any big country company does, surprize surprize. my respect for Anonymous has gone down alot. shame really, now they are just like any organisation looking our for number one.

[MmaFan-Qc]

anon.....lmao at them

[morganfell]

I can't believe anyone is afraid of these clowns. "Be careful what you say" Right. If you think we should watch our step around these idiots I can only imagine how much milk money you gave up as a kid.

You think we should fear a group of cowards that commit bully acts only because no one has found them...yet.

It may take some time but sooner or later they are going to nail the top anon members. When they do it will be humorous to watch anon try to hack their way out of a 6 x 8 cell. It would be a difficult feat when they have no computer and they are spending all of their time bent over a bunk or being traded for cigarettes.

Anyone considering concern over offending these people needs to grow a spine.

[UnwanteDreamz]

Im with Morgan on this. Anyone intimidated by this crap is has female reproductive organs.

"Playing the internet tough guy is fine and dandy since your anonymous. But we are talking about people who can push you back."

Push back with what pizzas delivered to my house? Empty threats? GTFO grow a pair and holla at me. I grew up in a poor neighborhoord in a very large city. Can you say gang violence? Anon is for fake internet tough guys buddy.

EDIT: Truthfully Anon are just a bunch of guys doing it for the LULZ. Dangerous? Maybe if you are a little girl like Jessi Slaughter lol.

[Dee_91]

Yea this outta teach them /s
they must forgot they are doing this to people who actually have lives outside of the internet lol
nobody would know about any of the crap anon is doing if it wasnt for playstionlifestyle site

[SonyWarrior]

you guys realize by bringing down PSN and sony website that cost sony lots of money..

[TotalPS3Fanboy]

Hacker: "I can't beat up this guy, so I am going to beat up his little kid instead."

[lizard81288]

No kidding. They are everywhere & very powerful too. I wouldn't poke them with a stick, because they could bite, & bite hard. They are kind of like the bad cop, exposing things with force and shining a light on corruption and what not.

[Deputydon]

@dragonknight.

4chan and anon are the same fucking thing...

Ya know when you go to 4chan and click on random, it takes you to /b/... that is Anon.

[evilmonkey501]

If I was on the Sony Electronic protection team I would join anon and eat em up one ip at a time. There will always be a way to find you. No one is ever truly anon. Ever.

[Sono421]

These guys have honestly lost all LITTLE respect I had for them, I mean I had a little because they know quite a bit, and a VERY FEW of these people were fighting actually for these rights, but MOST were fighting for this for two simple reasons, to be able to host hacked lobbies, and to be able to pirate games, and both of those reasons I disagree with, but now this has all come down to ignorance, now they are just ignorantly following gehotz example and going against Sony. This just shows how childish and immature they all are, hackers grow up, if your hacking didn't effect the online community and effect Sony making money there wouldn't be a problem, but of course you want to be able to do the two things they don't want you to do. Grow up.
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The hackers need to grow up and get over it.
If they never started pirating games or hosting hacked lobbies online those dumb asses would still be able to customize their PS3 how they want (Which they claim they are fighting for but we all know thats not what they are actually fighting for) LOL summary is almost as long :D

[hiredhelp]

TheHater + 1d 1h ago
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Just might want to watch what you say to these guys. If they can hack Sony security system, just imagine what they can do to you.
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just the way they are acting is showing how immature and how disrepectfull the twats are.
ill put it out like this.
They silly little twats can do all the hacking they like cos thats there firewall a virtual wall that blacks out people that cant touch them.

Shame u have to hide behind such a wall cos you could grow a pair face people like me who disagree with people sorry KIDS like you .you be punnished i start by ripping out ur board's taken out your CPU'S and ur hard drives. ill unzip and ill piss all over it burn it. then after ill loved to just beat you to bloody pulp. Oh beleave me i would.!! yeh im angury.

but since that never happen cos you hide in your basements ill just have to keep dreaming.

[InfectedDK]

Wow Anon.. Seriously, why?
This is crazy.

[gamingdroid]

This is seriously escalating....

[ChrisW]

Because it's a radical off-shoot of the original group. This is NOT the Anonymous that first started. In addition, many of those people attacking Sony are just copycats.

[gamingdroid]

The thing is Anonymous is easy to join, and there are a lot of people angry about this. As things go on, without the proper leadership, it can go out of hand like this.

In some ways though, I believe there is a balance. I'm not condone these actions and actually against them (from both parties), but this will be interesting to see.

The (extreme) people vs. Sony!

[Perkel]

@ gamingdroid

"The thing is Anonymous is easy to join, and there are a lot of people angry about this. As things go on, without the proper leadership, it can go out of hand like this."

Anonymous is/are random group of people there are no leadership and you can't hurt them because one Anonymous attack can be delivered by completly diffrent people.

And DDOSing Main Sites like Sony means that there are hundrets or tousands of people.

What if they catch one or two or 10 ? Nothing.

As of their cause. I fully support it. No one aftter buying product should be sue just because they want their TV to be used as chair.

It's my product i bought it and i can do with it what i like. And i can post on internet how i done that.

[awesomeperson]

I seriously think these people are delusional and/or clinacly insane.

Seriously been pussies over the internet is one thing, bringing it into real life and targetting actual people thesmelves is terrible.

That comment "No one found ANY info on Stringers kids?" is seriously creepy.

@perkel

Yes but modifying it and then pirating that armchair accessory along with blowing up everyone elses TV armchairs isn't cool.

[frostypants]

"The thing is Anonymous is easy to join, and there are a lot of people angry about this."

This has nothing to do with anger. Does the phrase "looking for a cause" mean anything to you? That's what is going on...a bunch of morons looking for some kind of excuse to act like idiots. I guarantee that 90% of them don't even understand the issue.

[DragonKnight]

Perkel: You want to modify the casing and physical hardware of the PS3 to make yourself a Sybian (use some lube), you go right ahead. Sony will NOT come after you for that, and if you ask nicely maybe they'll even provide you with new vibration technology.

But you DO NOT own the SOFTWARE that is the main PS3 OS and PSN. Sony rents you a license to use that software when you purchase the hardware. It is their proprietary software containing their industrial secrets and is thus intellectual property that they have a right to protect. You DO NOT have the right to circumvent their protection measures unless it has an adverse effect on the basic function of the product. As of now, nothing Sony has done has rendered gaming, online gaming, or media streaming useless. They have also not monopolized anything. Therefore Sony have not made your PS3 useless and have not broken any laws.

You don't know what your rights are if you think you have the right to do whatever you want simply because some money changed hands. That's like me buying you a new doorknob and then claiming I'm allowed to come into your house and do whatever I want since I bought that which gives access to your house.

[Ducky]

Does resorting to petty name calling really make you feel better? O.o

That kind of post is exactly the kind of response that whoever is doing this wants to see. Keep up the e-drama.

[RBLAZE1988]

I hope these guys don't think that they are helping geohotz case by doing this. If anything, geohot can get into further trouble because they say they are doing this on his behalf so he can be viewed as working with these guys. Since I don't think the judge willl take being targetted lightly, this could end even worse than some people had predicted

[JackBNimble]

guilty by association.... I'll laugh if Geohot get's implicated with anonymous.

He dug his own hole and anonymous keep digging it deeper, funny how anonymous friends help out.

[ME1989]

You really take this stuff seriously don't you?

[CryofSilence]

Ok. Anonymous are now terrorists. If I ever meet one of them, I'll smash his computer... and his face. As a precautionary measure, I've deleted all record of any sort of personal information off of my computer and online accounts, though if an Anonymous member tried to hack me, he'd know he's going DIRECTLY against his own sworn mantra. But... I don't expect them to be smart--just good with numbers.

[frostypants]

Why do you think they're good with numbers? Most of them just learned to hack by reading crap on Google. It's not rocket science. The true hackers are few and far between, and most of them don't waste time with petty stuff like this (because they are good enough to make money from their skill).

[xAlmostPro]

This just proves yet again that although hackers me be smart in things like programming/scripting and apparently using google search to find out employees names(LOL).. they lack complete common sense.

They claim they're here for the consumers, to stick it to the corporation who have apparently bullied hackers.. yet here they are bringing down consumer websites, psn, and now releasing details of employees family members and such..

The website was brought down for an hour because they used a lame DDoS(which any of us can do easily)..

now this.. i mean not only are they not very good at what they do.. they completely go against the point they're trying to make..

i reckon this is hurting the consumers and innocent people far more than its hurting sony right now..

p.s i'd love to see them hack me..

all they seem to do is either use a DDoS which can be googled.. or use skype to make a phone call to the details of somebody that can also be found on google lmao..

c'mon guys google search me, show me what you got

[Perkel]

this metods are effective dude

They can shut down your sites and many main sites are connected with integral network. So if you shut down Sony com probably a lot of people will be doing nothing and it means lose of $$$ for Sony.

Prank calls and emails are annoying if you get them like 500-1000 in one day. And spaming your Phone will reaally annoy you. How can you work in modern buisnees without a phone ?

As of PSN network shut down probably it nailed they customer support.

Best part is that they can't be judged by prank calls or DDOS attack because they are perfectly legal.

It's the same idea as protest. You protest in places that mean something to other party like protest outside your window to annoy you or protest at pedastrian lines.

[JackBNimble]

@Perkel... they have taken it to a whole new level by targeting specific people and their info.

[KozmoOchez]

Its funny how Perkel believes that a website is run by a lot of people...I'd be surprised if Sony has more than maybe 10 people working on their websites(each). Emails can be filtered, and prank calls are most likely sent to some machine before it even reaches a real employee - which seems like more of a time waster for the prankers...

This all sounds more like some childish senior prank than anything else. Real heroes don't hide behind masks anyway, but if you want to follow behind these guys and support them, go ahead and waste your time

[Snake Raiser]

Perkel...DDOS are illegal in some states/countries. It also violates proper use policies and the user policies of almost all ISP's.
If you know how to use the wikipedias and a google you could have found that out.

[D3athc3ll]

@movements

Look i like sony alot, but calling Hackers "children who stayed in their parents basements like zombies with no souls" just shows how immature u r yourself! When the actual truth is that they r smarter than u r and ever will be!!

Yes i dont fully agree on what hackers do, but stop being childish cause they r threatening sony! Sony r one of the most succesfull company's in the world, they can fend for themselves!

Now to come back to my point, Hackers r ppl too! I just wish somehow their potential can be used for good!!!

btw i see u got 2 bubbles, must say something!

Anyway sony r great, and ill always buy their products!

Hackers, plz calm down a bit!! Sony only trying to protect their products, which we all like to buy!

[BlackTar187]

Because they use low level Hacks(Debatable on how low level maybe Basement level) they are smarter then he or people will ever be?

Wow

[D3athc3ll]

@BlackTar187

People? No! He? Yes!

[TheMrMadzen]

After I read this I can assume one thing:
HACKERS DO NOT HAVE A GOD DAMN LIFE!!

[Senden]

Rofl original poster, reread what you put, you sound like one of those crazed justice loonies on some sort of crusade for justice.

[sikbeta]

"So who's this helping?" no one but themselves, this is not helping US at all...

*GET AWAY OF PSN*

[Christopher]

You are the biggest idiot in the world if you are going after a judge. Seriously, one of the biggest mistakes one can make in their life is harassing a judge in this manner. It becomes a federal issue when you start that.

Edit: It's completely possible they're just saying they did this stuff rather than actually doing it. People want attention, and these are the times in which those people come out to get it.

[killcycle]

Everyone keeps talking about Reputation like thats what this is about.

Why? Just because Geohot boasts now and again?

Just because they're hiding behind masks does not make them cowards, Sony is trying to bend the law in court against this kid attacking our rights to a console that we brought with our own money.

Obviously Sony has the justice system on their side so these guys have to remain unknown but this still means they are at great risk so how the hell does that make them a coward?

Just stfu already! all of you!

I love sony's products but what they are doing to this kid in court is wrong.

[BlackTar187]

Please explain how sony is bending the rules. I thought when you agree to the T&C and then break them you are the one benidng the law.

or am i confused on how you bend the law. Explain to me how manipulating SW not owned by you is anything but illegal? Espically when you agree to terms.

I work with SW every day and when we sell SW licenses if the customer is ever found to be manipulating that SW then they are in huge legal trouble how does this differ? They paid cash money for there license to use on there servers that they paid for.

[killcycle]

@ Blacktar

Geohotz buys a Playstation 3, hacks his system and explains how it's done on the internet.

Uh... So the fuck what?

It's been done many times before, as long as he ain't doing any form of piracy or hacking the Playstation network or any servers through it then so what?

Whats the big freakin' deal?

If i was smart enough to figure out how to change my Ps3 to add my own firmware and run my own programs that run on it then i would do it too why the hell would i need to be sued for?

What rule has he broken here?

It's his piece of equipment he can do what ever the hell he wants to it.

[evilmonkey501]

If you don't like bacon, your wrong.

[strifeblade]

plz just shutup, ... fanboy

[doctorstrange]

Shit just got serious, this is crazy

[Aussiegamer]

They really have got their panties in a twist over everything havn't they?! Would be a shame if they used their time wisely like getting a job instead of sitting at home using mummie and daddies internet all day.

[ME1989]

You seriously think Anonymous is made up of kids instead of professional adults who know their shit?

You know how pathetic it would be if Sony, not to mention governments around the world are getting hacked by kids using their "mummie and daddies" internet?

[NaiNaiNai]

Ingore him he probably doesn't even know basic, let alone how to regedit his own computer.

[Istanbull]

lmao do u really think it takes professional adults for a simple DDos attack? They're bunch of lowlife teenagers, oh wow we DDosed Sony's website! We're super cool now!

[dkgshiz]

Well PSN seems to be back online 100% I and everyone I know are fully up and running. These people are a bunch of low life's that need to get out of their parents basements and do something productive. I was talking about PSN. Not playstation.com.

[Elyxir-pSx]

Try this
www.us.playstation.com

Down over here.

@ dkgshiz

It just sounded like you were singing the everything is OK tune for sec.

[shoddy]

ya quite a dangerous hack./s
unless it's my credit card. Bunch of f@ggit!

didn't even last 12hr.

oh no Sony is teh DOOOOOM!!!!!!!

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

The Legit Gamers are being affected by these ridiculous people. They think they are doing the right thing? xD.

Sony and Legit Gamers are innocent by default.

[Trolol]

Sony innocent lol....

[PSPDude79]

"SonyRecon founder randomtask stated: sony , the judge and sonys lawyers are all valid targets"

This is just wrong. First, attacking a website. Now, attacking PEOPLE. I mean, it says they're uncovering where they live. Personally, if I worked for Sony, I'd be scared right now. I hope they find out who these scumbags are and sue the shit out of them.

[dkgshiz]

eh..what could they do? Steal your credit card? OH NO! Just a bunch of no life's who never left their basements since Y2K. These people sound like they are getting a testosterone high from being a basement dweller. I bet they are the most pathetic weak fragile being that you could knock them over with a feather.

[distorted_reality]

While I don't know if I agree with what Anon are doing right now, I can't deny that they've got guts doing it.

While they may be slightly misguided sometimes, at least they're willing to do what they can to make some of these big corporations watch their backs, and quite frankly we should all be happy with that.

Nobody really polices the big corporations, and as the Geo court case is showing so far, they are being allowed to get away with too much.

As I said I don't 100% agree with what they're doing at the moment, but I can't help but feel that someone has to speak out against Sony at the moment, and hell, it's no surprise that Anon picked up the ball and are running with it.

[jwk94]

.....Oh no? Dude, you steal a credit card number and there goes your identity, that's your life bro, they could fuck you up really badly with just that number, and god forbid they get your SSN.

[Biggest]

Is it really that hard to report something stolen? Identity theft is kinda 2001. Someone broke into my car recently and stole my iPod, SSC, three credit cards, and a bag of Twizzlers. They are currently in the Riverside County jail. I have my iPod, all three cards, and a newly purchased bag of Twizzlers. It inconvienienced me for as long as the police took to document the theft.

[Nickster800]

Who hacks in their basement anymore, its all about the attic now a days.

If you didn't get it I was kidding, I really hope these assholes pay for what their doing to us, Innocent psn users.

[xAlmostPro]

i wouldn't be scared lol..

they can only make calls to you or send you free boxes(how terryfying)..

Not like these sad acts actually go outside is it

[Donthizz]

this is what happens when hackers get butthurt..losers

[Neko_Mega]

Wow I'm scare of little boys that little playing games and acting like men.

Please if they think they are so tough then why hide their real names and there faces? Because they are to scare.

[Neko_Mega]

Don't disagree because its true, plus if they take it to far they aren't going to have to worry about just Sony.

The grovement will step in and that isn't going pretty.

[Ducky]

O.o?

There's a difference between bravery and stupidity.

They are terrorists. They aren't going to openly show themselves and get caught. That's like saying Batman is a coward because he spends his time lurking in the shadows and wears a mask. (I may as well have used V as an example)

I doubt the government would interfere. Especially since these kids might not be all from the same country to begin with.

[Neko_Mega]

When did are government care about what country you are from? Never, I don't know I seen terrorists send videos with their faces and voice not block and say what they are planing on doing.

[WitWolfy]

Yeah your right Ive seen those fake Osama video's too!!!

[DeeZee]

This is immature, I honestly don't see how anyone could support these guys. There's better ways to send a message to Sony. When you start going after people on a personal level, it's a major problem. Even if their cause had some valid points, their actions just threw them all out the window.

[Salvadore]

At the end of this day one entity is affected, the gamers. Why should my experience be hindered or affected by a group hackers wanting to prove their themselves and Sony going on a rampage against one person just to have hell break loose. This could have all been avoided, however I don't have a solution to the problem and Sony has the right to defend their IP. If you buy the console, it means that YOU are under a contract with Sony and nothing else.

[news4geeks]

hehe, funny geeks. They'll end up in prison.

[Donthizz]

not geeks cyber terrorists...

[SoSLy]

So, Is cyber Team America coming anytime soon?

[khamvongsa09]

@SoSLy

"Lets go police the internetz"

XD

[solar]

good for Anon. hacking isnt illegal. using hacks for illigal purposes is.

[DeeZee]

But--aren't what they're doing illegal? So ummm...

[BubbleSniper]

ur stupid

i willing to bet anon will help kick off NEW REGULATIONS for internet just when we makin headway for transparency!!

no more bubbles for me

well damn

good

[lee_ten]

...you defend these people for attacking services for gamers and employees trying to earn an honest dollar?

YOU'RE FULL OF IT.

[Elyxir-pSx]

*Smiles* I love these guys.

[awesomeperson]

*Smiles* Your probably one of them.

Or insane.

[wenaldy]

Next, you sure want to suck their wang..

[BubbleSniper]

this is stupid

they no better than who they pursuing now

putting up info of people that have no ties to court case
children, wives? really????

i need to close my PC down internet is startin to depress me

think ill smoke a doobie n watch phantasm II on my SONY bravia

[Godmars290]

While it can easily be said that Sony is looking out for their own interests, these guys are one step short of being mobsters or a gang trying to intimidate people.

Someone from Sony or their families could wind up hurt or killed because of this. All this situation needs is one true nut-job when most of them already sound loose.

[gcolley]

ha Sony Bravia, the best looking TV when turned off

[LoganX]

I really want to see what happens to these guys when the FBI starts to get involved.

Based on the stunts they're pulling right now, all I can say is this:

Expect them.

[andrewf91]

If anyone's ever been to 4chan, you'll know it's just a big joke for "Anon" to get attention. They'll do whatever they can to get what they want and they will most likely fail and won't do anything as damaging as they say to anyone.

tl:dr: "Anon" are just a bunch of trolls who seek attention.

[TBONEJF]

Shit it's like these HACKERS HAVE NOTHING ELSE BETTER TO DO THAN RUIN OUR ONLINE GAMING. AND MAD AT SONY. WE SHOULD ALL THANKS GEOHOTZ NOT!! Bunch of dumb lazy asses still piss off at SONY just because THEIR KICKING THEM OUT AND BANNING THEM. JEEZE pisses me the FK OFF right now

[unknownhero1123]

I wonder, does this "Anon" group have a website of thier own? I have a few words for them.

[T3mpr1x]

They do, and I don't think you'd want to go to any of their revolting, vile sites.

[RonaldRaygun]

"Meanwhile, both OpSony and SonyRecon have targeted those involved in the actual lawsuit against Geohot, with members of OpSony singling out the judge of the case."

Pissing off the judge is going to MAJORLY backfire. The judge isn't going to back down, and he/she sure as hell isn't going to be lenient on Geohot now. It's going to have the complete opposite effect of what they were going for lol.

[Parapraxis]

It clearly displays the mental capacity of those who are acting in this little script-kiddie fest.

[flyingmunky]

So whats next? Are these guys going to break into air traffic control and reprogram a plane to 'land' on Howard Stringer's estate? This is getting way out of hand. This is just cyber terrorism now.

[WitWolfy]

Nah thats too much effort, they'll probably prank call a bunch of police men, and send pizza to them that they didnt order

[takedown]

This is seriously getting out of hand. All this over two hackers? It's ridiculous.

[Godmars290]

All this over a piece of hardware that's going to be made redundant in 2-3 years.

[SoSLy]

Theyre just butthurt people who want to feel rebellion and anarchy

[distorted_reality]

It's not really about the two who were charged any more, it's about what Sony have been getting away with during the court case.

@ below - Would you want your information known to a corporation to be used in a court case simply for watching a video or checking out a website which was talking about one of the bigger gaming news events of this generation?

[Parapraxis]

distorted_reality ...heh, suitable name.

[ziggurcat]

lol sony hasn't been "getting away" with anything during the court case.

methinks you've misread/misinterpreted the events of the court proceedings... or you've simply fallen for the lies that are being spread about what's being done in terms of the discovery process.

if you bothered to actually follow the court case, the *only* information they're gathering to establish jurisdiction are basically the IP addresses of those located in california who downloaded the circumvention software. no other personal information is being gathered and/or used in this case.

you're not going to get a phone call or a knock on the door simply because you visited the website or watched the video on youtube. this preposterous, nonsensical fear mongering perpetuated by the hacking community is getting a little ridiculous and quite frankly, i'm really sick and tired of it.

[Dart89]

Bunch retards they gonna end up like this.Don't know if im allowed to post it but here goes.

[DiLeCtioN]

Ill grab the pop corn, someone get the drinks :D
Movie is about to start...

[JonnyBigBoss]

Sick monkeys.

[I_killed_TheMart]

guys, they just started attack ps3 owners. My ps3 won't run for 30 seconds...everyone check ur ps3s now

[I_killed_TheMart]

my ps3 wont stay on for no more then 20 to 30 seconds then it shuts off. these guys are seriously starting to piss me off

[nikoado]

Thats probably a hard ware issue with your ps3 unfortuately. Auto shut down is used to prevent overheating of the console. You should probably unplug it and leave it to cool.

Are you getting flashing red or yellow lights?

[I_killed_TheMart]

Lol yes, and a beep before it does turn off. ...no not yellow leights but i guess ur theory is close enough to the problem :(

[wenaldy]

Haha LMAO... Now you been paranoia..

[AxeCain]

This is hurting the gamers as well.
Sony isn't working on new technology for gaming right now like cross game chat they are working on preventing the ps3 from getting hacked.
I for one would rather have new features. Thanks for nothing anonymous (a**holes)

[RockmanII7]

It's been 4 years since its release, if Sony was adding cross game chat it would be in by now

[AxeCain]

I was using that as an example and I agree with you. I should have left it at new features... The point still rings true.

[naruto344]

I really like the fact how these guys like to stay hidden... shows how cowardly they really are! O and by the way "Anonymous" when your in prison suffering from the Consequence for putting information about the judge on the net, there won't be a mask or computer to hide behind when your good prison mate ass rapes you!

[gcolley]

cowardly, are you serious? think about what you just said for a second. use your brains and stop being a cry baby. or do i need to explain this to you. given their name AND the nature of what they are doing it would be pretty damn stupid to advertise who they are.

[Shnazzyone]

Aren't you being anonymous right now. If you want to call em out go to 4chan and tell em. They are trying to defend your rights as a person who buys technology you should be allowed to modify and upgrade your devices. Or do you want to not be allowed to ever upgrade internal storage on you computer ever again because you are breaking laws if you actually try and get everything out of the machines you buy?

[LeXxXiNgToN]

"Anonymous" are nothing but a bunch of p****** that are scared to show their face, because they know if they do they'll be taking it the butt in jail.

[cleanhealthy12]

doubt they even care, they just do this shit for fun.

"u mad?" etc, etc.

[gcolley]

seems to be working on this forum

[KaiokenKid]

So, can we call these guys cyber terrorists yet?

[bwazy]

Nope, but we can call them any profanity ridden word that we can think of.

[AnchorMan]

I was thinking the same thing. This war they are waging is going to put a lot of smart people in prison.

[Tdmd]

Hopefully.

[I_killed_TheMart]

can someone who has a ps3 turn it on and see how long it will run before it shuts off...plz and thanks

[Dart89]

Mines running fine it hasnt turned off it's been on for 3min.

[Convas]

If someone dies over this, this is going to get a heck of a lot more serious.

Is this REALLY what the world is coming to?

I know one thing for sure, if some punk-ass tried to approach me as a Sony Employee with intent to harm me bodily, six feet deep nigga, THAT'S the death.

[Prototype]

a DMX fan, finally I'm not the only one on here

[Grannyvukka]

Excellent work retards...Now the ordinary "little guy" that bought a PS3 with there hard earned cash an take solace in the fact that the money & time & more money Sony has to spend on this crap, is gonna potentionally cost Sony employees (developers & other little guys just trying to feed there family) there jobs....thanks to declining sales, natural disasters & the poor state of the economy, Sony have already been scrapping games, closing down development houses & merging them (which means staff cuts), so not only us as gamers are burn't by these fucktards, but they put peoples livelihood at stake, yet give less than a fuck about those Sony drones, as it's 'uber cool people like Geohotz that count.
Then dudes are on here warning us to be careful what we say about these cowardly criminal terrorist cunts. Fuck them, they have karma coming up on there asses, & that shit is inescapable. Plus if they started attacking dudes on here with opinions & causing them grief through there wasted computer genius, they would be swimming against the very tide they claim to be defending (the little guy), and fact is, if they cyber punished every forum goer on here, and hacking into some little guy's computer to get his details & ruin his life, then one day it these people are caught & identified, then they will suddenly have a face & a bunch of disgruntled me's with louiseville sluggers in hand to re-arrange there face with, they would be the dumbasses constantly looking over there shoulder for a oversized toothpick swinging at there heads to open up there skulls & spill there oversized, underused, overwasted brains all over there fibroglass, poorly made, replica ferrari.
Fear not, say what you feel about these pricks, as they are aiding Sony's monetry losses which means job loss, inhouse developer loss, & new IP & old IP games losses. I've forgotten the names of the games that I saw Sony had to scrap the other day, & I think it was London Studios & Cambridge studios who were closed down & merged. Great development houses responsible for awesomeness like Medievil, Primal, Ghosthunter, The Getaway, etc, ect. Whats next????? Team Ico gets kissed goodbye, as it did not sell 5million copies in 6months & could'nt cover development costs as well as hacker fighting costs.

Maybe Sony & others will have to start charging us not only a MS-like subscription fee to go online, but also an extra $10-$20 per game to cover having to fight off these cyber terrorist cowardly cuntz.

[sorceror171]

How do we know this is really from "Anonymous"? Google "false flag operation"...

[blackburn5]

Oh please. Does anyone believe this junk? If they start attacking people they will hunt them down. This isn't a joke and its not funny even it is likely to be just an empty threat. Anyone who would risk being locked up in prison for assult over a game console are obviously not stable people. No one asked any of you to 'fight' Sony. You are taking pot shots at them and hitting the people who just want to play our games in peace

[TABSF]

Guys these people are international its not like FIA can fix this.

Its just a up hill battle from now on for Sony, these guys will gone on with PS4, NGP and so on.

[ZombieAssassin]

Isn't hacking personal information very illegal, like prison time illegal?

[blackhammer]

It's totally cool to go unknown and do what you feel is just, but damn is this dumb. Gonna change absolutely nothing, just creating useless violence (and no, there is such thing as violence that is useful/productive).

I like there hate on them Clam worshippers, but attacking Sony and the consumers? Dumb... really dumb...

[Ryutamashiisan]

I think they officially qualify as cyber terrorists at this point, unfortunately for them internet anonymity doesn't last long when your being tracked by law enforcement. They may be international but i assure most of the countries these guys are in will have 0 issue dragging them out of there respective hiding spaces when they start stealing identifiable information, thats not piss on Sony behavior anymore like the DOS attacks, that is serious jail time criminal behavior

[ssj2gohan83]

Can anyone be this fucking retarded. This is taking it way too far. I can't wait for the FBI and associated international agency's to start raiding these butt munchers.

This is flat out terrorism, plain and simple.

[danthebios]

dont worry,there are the good hackers which are called FBI.They will get those scumbags in no time.

[ssj2gohan83]

You forgot Interpol dude, if they are in international lands. I just finished reading the article. Going after the Magistrate in charge of the case is the dumbest thing anyone would do.

[ZBlacktt]

Hacker's are trying to ruin it for everyone. Think about it. What if Sony and MS said ok, forget it. Pull the plug on video gaming. Now what....

[Tripl3seis]

If I'm not able to play socom 4 next week I swear to god this fukin idiots need to go to jail I bought my console with my hard eran money to see a bunch of bitches try and ruin experiences for us gamers and this going way way too far I mean who the fuk attacks a judge or an attorney. I hope the fbi get this guys for what they doing fuking idiots.

[gypsygib]

Sony is probably behind the cyber terrorism to curry favour in their court battle lol.

Seriously, I think hacking the judges private accounts will engender A LOT of sympathy for Sony.

How can people so skilled in the Art of Hacking lack so much common sense in the Art of War.

[Ryutamashiisan]

This going to be "Anonymous" if this keeps going down this direction

[Masterchef2007]

"You cant have my booty" LOL thks for the laugh bubbles+

[AntiHeroComplex]

lol these guys are so dumb!

" sony , the judge and sonys lawyers are all valid targets"

JUDGE? Yeah thats gonna help GEOHOT A LOT ! LOL!!!!!!!!!!

The most irrational group of people on the planet.

[Haseo106]

another group full of trashes in our society.

[MeNoRasta]

This is the worst gen for Sony and MS.

[BeastlyRig]

Wow! never new they were this dangerous..

[ziggurcat]

absolutely deplorable behaviour.

[THC CELL]

Lol I woule laugh if the judge pins this on george I mean he is the only hacker who is likely to want to do tis and he is this stupid, show ya self u little bitches

[itsalive]

Stricter laws protecting the very entities they are fighting against. Do you think governments are going t sit idly by while this sort of thing goes on? they (anon)and their actions will be marginalized and criminalized to a greater degree. No gvt will tolerate this kind of attack. Laws will be implemented to protect corps and by proxy, gvts. Threaten a judge???? brilliant!

[Masterchef2007]

Dont they know that by doing this they will make Geohotz case worse? Its a no brainer now that Geohotz will loose because of the actions of the hackers who try and defend him.

On a side note i wonder if N4G will take a hit?

[rlm41]

Oh no..!! what will you people ever do then?

[Veneno]

Definetely no one should admire these fools. My old best friend lived in his mom's basement and was awesome with computers. He wasn't a social misfit, he was actually a popular guy, but his computer skills gave him a narcissistic attitude and therefore he made really bad decisions in life because he felt he was untouchable. He landed in jail twice. He's a douche and so are Anonymous.

[Chyros]

Hackers are smart? DDoS are for kids. Anyone can do that.

To hackers, stop kissing Geohot and graf_chakolo asses.

[waltyftm]

Bunch of WANKERS.

[Psychotica]

Enjoy prison hackers, there is some big guys in there who are just going to love meeting you....

[XeNoStRatoS]

Roping in family members of Sony employees is by far too much. They want a corporation to show a conscience towards semi-criminals but don't stick to their own given codex if they go so far. I understand that those posted opportunities are just examples but if they make use of it they fail towards their respectability.

By the way @TheHater, #2: A quotation from the channel brought in this news -> "Sony , the judge and sonys lawyers are all valid targets."

Guess even if some guys here swear at them, which is legit because of the tactic those guys chose to harm Sony & employees, they ain't interesting enough for them and not on the list of targets so far.

[thekiddfran]

I feel sorry for these guys. They just the made this situation alot worse. Sony will not stop untill these guys are in jail. Sony will need to make an example out of these guys. PLus all they did was DDos......fail.

[IHateYouFanboys]

look, i think its pretty funny that theyre taking down sonys websites - theyre e-bullying the company that are bullying hackers. im 100% in geohotz's corner, i hope sony lose the lawsuit and are made to pay for what theyve done.

but spreading personal information of sony employees is taking it WAAAAAAAAAY too far. i do not agree with anonymous on this at all. taking down websites is one thing, but potentially ruining someones livelihood and causing them personal distress is not on, especially when they did nothing personally to deserve it.

i am having a good old laugh at the e-warriors in here having a go at anonymous and at all the sony-love being thrown around in here. its basically one big circle jerk over a company who couldnt care less about a single one of you. keep up the good work.

[DeputyB]

Well to be fair there aren't many companies that do care lol. And I wouldn't call it "Sony-love" its more like frustration towards something that could affect there experience for the system that they paid good money for and are invested in. This could potentially affect games, services that are provided to those people. Not to mention developers.

If this happened to the 360 it would be the same thing, and they would be rightfully entitled to complain at whomever is causing them irritation over this situation.

[WitWolfy]

well whatever these guys are doing isnt making Geohot look any less guilty then what he really is. Talk about self destructing your chances.

[Ares84]

This is going way too far. It is time for the FBI to get these clowns and when they do, I hope it will be recorded and shown online for us to watch and laugh.

[Kran]

Oh cmon. Those that work at Sony are just trying to make a living for god sakes. This is getting out of hand now.

[Lucreto]

"Both OpSony and SonyRecon have targeted those involved in the actual lawsuit against Geohot, with members of OpSony singling out the judge of the case."

Yes going after the Judge will help GeoHots case then going and tweeting about it where they can get the police to track it.

Sometime I wish Judges were like the Judges from FF XII.

[Peaceful_Jelly]

So many butthurt Sony fanboys... I love their delicious tears.

[rlm41]

Me too man, me too.

[SeanScythe]

Yawn... Nothing to see here just kids trying to be big shots.

[ElementX]

Trying? I think they are doing more than people thought they could.

[SeanScythe]

Just those with low expectations.

[omi25p]

isnt this ilegal? if so why are the police/fbi whatever getting involved.

Also i HATE the fact they are acting as if they are doing this for the good of all gamers. I do not want some hackers fighting for me when i disagree with what they are fighting for.

[DeputyB]

I mean at this rate they're must be some sort of repercussion that'll happen. Its not like Sony is a Country specific brand they're all over the world! In other words HUGE. and if they start attacking judges and lawyers... wow it could be really bad. Protesting a companies decisions is one thing but attacking it and employees is;
a) not the right way to get attention and
b) going to be big trouble.

[Rikan]

This is pathetic.

[LJ437]

I wish them good luck because they have already crossed the point of no return. You just brought a knife to a gun fight.

[realgamer890]

I'm with LJ437, these guys have gone too far. I mean Sony can fix the PSN and the main websites, but you need to draw line when it comes to attacking people's jobs. I mean, the economy is already messsed up, nobody needs to be losing a job over some nonsense like this. I hope these guys get caught, and end up in the same room as GeoHot come the day of the trial.

[LunaticBrandon]

Are people really so fucking computer illiterate that any computer task that requires more than 15 brain cells is "hacking"? lol at the enraged Playstation fanboys. Sony is a big boy and can handle this themselves. They really don't need bunch of whinny people's help. Your behavior is the most pathetic part of this whole situation.

[xfrgtr]

Anonymous getting desperate.lol
I feel sorry for them.

[Amiroo]

ahaaaa :D
Sony Fanboys are Hurting badly , Excelent Work and god bless you anonymous

[SQWERCH]

ok taking down websites is one thing but exposing people personal info is a crazy, they are going to get the fbi involved and get themselves arrested for this.

[stuntman_mike]

it is getting a bit pathetic now. i cant see where they are going with all this because it will end in the FBI kicking thier doors down.

[9thWonder]

so they plan to attack websites and leave messages on he phone of the judges and lawyers that are in the case with sony hahahahaha and people thought hackers were smart but thanks for fueling and inspiring them to keep moving forward to help Sony make and example of Hotz thank you its really appreciated

[Daoshai]

I'm all for Geohat winning his case against Sony, but I don't think Anon needs to get involved, let the courts decide. I am fairly confident Geohat will win, so Anon is only hurting his case.

You buy hardware, you own that hardware, nuff said.

So many people disagree on here because they are biased fanboys, but honestly in the long run, you will want Sony to lose too.

[realgamer890]

Man, be real for a minute. Did you actually read this before you posted this? This is not about "fanboys"..... this about people's JOBS. This is no longer about being biased towards systems.

[Holeran]

"but honestly in the long run, you will want Sony to lose too."

Speak for yourself loser. I want to promote the company that brings my family fun, not harm that entity.

[tigertron]

I'm concerned about the employees, after all...Sony is made up of employees, and its unfair that honest workers are being victimised like this. I hope the FBI/police find these criminals and bring them to justice.

As for all the trolls here, who are posting things like "I feed off Sony fanboy tears" and siding with these hackers, just grow up. Morons.

[kyzer1978]

These hackers really aren't helping but I do admire them. I think that what Sony is doing in this case is wrong and I kind of like that someone is standing up to them (even if it is a futile attempt).

[Holeran]

So you promote theft and like when people do malicious things to hurt others lives? Typical criminal response.

[blink3020]

I hope all these hackers get thrown into the slammer and then they'll see how tough they really are. Hackers vs. convicted felons. That's something I'd love to see.

[Tommykrem]

Was sort of putting the good foot forward in trying to be fair to the hackers, but yeah this is pretty lame. Peple have the right to privacy as much as they have the right to free speech. And while it isn't illegal to look into public information, there certainly is an unwritten rule not to look to deeply into personal information published on the net. It's like being over at a friend's house and not opening the drawer in his desk going through all his things. It's not illegal to do it, nor will he get angry, but it's just common sense not to do it, and everyone feels better of with it that way anyway.

No one sees anonymous defend the Data Retention Directive, which will allow governments to legally gather information and unlike Anonymous, I suspect that most governments will handle the information they gather discreetly.

BESIDES. Threats are illegal.

[SuperbVillain]

oh god,these nerds just need to get a hobby or a social life

[boss_killa]

Ok now they're threatening people? Even a judge?!?! WTF? lol

I wonder how long this will go on before the FBI or NSA will get involved. I'm pretty sure hacking for people's private information can get you prison time.

Like I said before, this type of action will only lead to stricter gov't laws against people's rights and liberties. And right about now, I don't think some people can handle their rights and freedoms these days.

Look I'm totally for freedom and protesting and all that, but going after innocent people that work for a big corp is crossing the line.

[Holeran]

Someone needs to put these children in time out.

[hot111]

Sucks to be Sony these days.

What goes around,comes around.And this is just the beginning...

[Sikct9a]

These hackers have more chins than a chinese phonebook.

[Kos-Mos]

They are trying to harm company`s they want to buy from and play with?
I can`t understand....let me think...
Ok, when I was a little child, around 7-8 years old I remember me and my friends could be pretty mad at each other if we didn`t want to play the same game, but still we wanted to play together. So these hackers wants to play with Sony but only with their own rules.
There`s mental disease that`s called Asperger syndrome where you stop aging mentally at some point and I AM 100 % SURE THAT THESE CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING FROM IT, which is bad of course. I have a brother that have the same syndrome and he suffers now and then but doing fine. God bless you my brother.

[xPhearR3dx]

sorry, but no child could pull this off

[Kos-Mos]

Children in mind. Learn how to read metaphors young one.

[cheatcode78]

wow this is some shit youd see in tha movies. On the real why go this far? as to hack an international company and threaten the judge? Really? these are some nerds living in a Ghost in the shell false reality. truley sad.

[VelvetHammer]

Where is the justification in what there doing. Not only are they making Geohotz look worse and worse day by day. But this achieves nothing. Now they want to affect the personal lives of Sony employees and ppl who have to do with the case? When did sony start dictating our lives since the ps3 came out? I can still play, buy, watch movies and all that bs. So why is it so hard for these ppl to enjoy the fruits of a company who is trying to put out a great secure product? I dont see what sony is doing wrong. These bastard anon need to grow the F**K UP! Before we no it nothing is going to be free are freedoms will be stripped and then what are they going to do?

[Scyrus]

yeah its ridiculous, they want to be able to do anything with something just because they bought it?

thats like doing anything to ur child because u Bore it.

if geohot bought his games etc then its w/e but geo was in he wrong, so obviously anon are just trying to be cool infront of their hacker friendz. its sad cuz they are going to go down for it haha actually not sad, halarious, hope anon gets their comps blown up in their faces then they have to go upstairs with mommy

[Scyrus]

seems like something from a bad movie :/

actually i think they are probably going to make a movie bassed off of this incident, i mean they made a facebook movie lol

besides i dont understand anon's motives, it was crap like this that made sony remove the other OS feature, it seems anon and geos goal is to make the ps3 worse or somethin. its moronic honestly

[MaverickStar7]

Once again stupid hackers forget they live in the real world. They can do all the harm they want in the digital world but at the end of everything when their computers are all gone they will suffer the consequences in the real word. I once had a co-worker who was self proclaimed hacker tell me the things he could to with someone records and accounts. Of course he didn't seem to have an answer when I asked him what kind of hack he had for someone giving him the beatdown with a baseball bat.

[K1LLSburyPWNboy]

OMG!! I just did some research and I found out Geohot is Bill Gates evil genius bastard son. He's trying to get back on Bill's good side by attacking Sony along with is minions like this. No we finally understand.

[K1LLSburyPWNboy]

We have to stop this madness like Leonidas stopped it in SPARTA!!

[Kaneda]

YeahhH!!!

[NayThin]

All you guys talking so much "blahblahlivinginbasement sblahblahblahgetalifeblahblahbl ah".....

AT LEAST THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING! I'm not defending what they are doing because I don't know the specifics, but at least (or so it seems) they are defending SOMETHING.

Dude a few pages up was talking about "being a productive member of society..."
Guess what dickhead, it's 2011, the Internet is our society. We spend half the day on it.
Your antidotes about being a "good citizen" are out-of-date.

Things like this (not this, exactly) need to happen. It's called BALANCE.

[Kaneda]

kids are spending half of their day on the internet.. Productive membersof the society. we got fulltime job where we do important STUFF...:)

[Bebedora]

I want to extend a bit on what you said. No matter how silly those 'crackers' act, they are good at what they do. I don't know half of the security-mechanics as some of those in here do, but I can see major damage happening if anon stop thinking of their own security - legalwise.

They do make a statement, but how they react is not based on freedom.

Sony made a fatal mistake enabling linux on their platform.
Since they did make the famous root-kit, enabling Other OS just didn't make sense to me. Something was amiss there. They are controlfreaks, but I accept that when it comes to a gamingsystem. Just lousy decision by Sony enabling it from the get-go.

I think it would be GREAT for mankind if they let it be there though. Plenty of power for a quick buck, rackmounted a plenty and you have a realy decent cluster there.

It's ironic they try to make a Computer Entertainment System. SCE...Oh, well. When it comes to tech, Sony are 'Sonny-boys' (wiz-kids) but they do lack some distance to reality, much like geohot does. The circle is complete. =)

[Firstkn1ghT]

Sucks for Sony. They already lost tons of money on the ps3. Now they have to waste more energy and money on taking care of this. The hackers are winning.

[GamingNtek]

I hope these douche gets arrested.

[KingDustero]

Who the heck would disagree with this?

ANYONE who supports Anonymous is a COMPLETE idiot.

They talk about being able to do what you want to do, yet they're stopping people from doing what they want to do.

I can't wait until they're found and all locked up.

I already hear the soap hitting the floor.

[NayThin]

They talk about doing what you want, within reason.
There is nobody to properly police these companies, so they are taking matters into their own hands.

When things like this happen, it stirs up the norm.
It's healthy.

But, your probably just some lazy American Lamb, so you probably wouldn't understand that.

[Sarobi]

i love me some internet cancer

[GSpartan777]

I'm writing this comment Anonymously. OHHHH YEAH!

[RockmanII7]

lol that's what you think Gianni

[GSpartan777]

;) Well played!

[RockmanII7]

Blame Twitter

[Coffin87]

"lol well like 30 min ago i left chocolate rain on the judge’s voicemail lawl"
Haha, sorry, but I lol'd.

[Haseo106]

I hope they will attack Sony's employees & lawyers because when they do that. Their asses will get arrested!

[XBloodShotX]

Where is the cyber police when you need them? Sony done goofed. ;p

[Dagobert]

Wow, what a bunch of milking twats.

[denero1]

guys a official update from one of the other sites saids the news sites that reported this twisted it

which is understandable your a news outlet you want attention so you put a spin on it -_- but the anon guys said they don't mean any personal harm to the person ahh why am i explaining go look yourself lol

[rbrtchng]

YEAH! Target a judge! That'll help your "cause"! Smart thinking

[sarshelyam]

...innocents have to get caught up in all of this. They're trying to prove a point, trying to make a corporation suffer, but all I'm hearing are the innocent gamers who are affected by their actions.

It's rather despicable behavior just to get their chub on!

[Dagobert]

Well in this case I don't see why they want Sony to suffer. They're trying to make money and not have piracy ruin their business.

[denero1]

well guys to be honest and fair sony went after a guy named graf and i know most of you don't know the scene but really this guy did nothing even remotely close to piracy

i mean nothing he made is even really usable for the average joe yet sony raided this guy a guy who hasn't made any backup managers or emulators to my knowledge all he did was try to get other os back and working

[Xmanzerox]

Why don't they attack something worthwhile like Oil Companies, cuz gas is ridunkulous?????????

[Shnazzyone]

As a person smart enough to be able to take apart and modify gadgets and technology for fun I wish anonymous godspeed. I don't want to live in a world where something i pay cash money for and own I can no longer crack open and fiddle with because i could be arrested or sued.

[EverydayGuy]

Why the hell would you target the judge, the person who can deem you not guilty or guilty.

[SkolarVisari]

To some people in this thread:

I guess people shouldn't protest what they think is unfair treatment because it inconveniences you. Those of you older folks living in more democratic/free nations should understand that disruptive protests are part of getting and keeping your rights and freedoms. You don't have to agree with whoever is protesting but recognize that the ability and the will to protest are worthy of some degree of respect.

@Xmanzerox anonymous hackers did DDOS and eventually leak emails of a company that specialized in predatory copyright infringement lawsuits in the U.K. Pretty much the leaked emails owned the law firm completely. Just last February some anonymous hackers leaked the Emails of HBGary Federal a private tech security firm that was also doing some stuff that is probably illegal. They were drafting plans to go after journalists and bloggers who either supported wikileaks or were considered enemies of the chamber of commerce.

[Nightshadow]

Personally attacking employees, stealing their personal information, identity fraud... none of these are forms of protesting. They are cyber terrorists.

[SkolarVisari]

The use of fear is nothing more than a tactic to call someone a terrorist doesn't really say anything of substance. Frankly when a corporation engages in the use of intimidation, and fraudulently tries to use the law to engage in what amounts to extortion through proxies does that make them? The entire Geohot lawsuit is about nothing more than trying to intimidate hackers, and making an example of Hotz. It isn't about anything that even looks like justice. They just happen to be able to afford expensive lawyers who dress in expensive suits.

[tenmohican]

Seems about as ridiculous as actually agreeing with eulas.

[xPhearR3dx]

im not sure how i feel about these guys, but however you look at it, their whole society is an interesting concept

[Orionsangel]

Yeah Anonymous gets serious. How about they get serious about creating an original logo and stop stealing from graphic novels and movies.

[SkolarVisari]

You know the mask is older than V for Vendetta right?