Gamers shouldn't hate Sony - they should hate the gaming blogs

I feel sorry for Sony, it could have been anyone. The fact that the hackers chose Sony is because they recognised that if they could get details, they would have 77 million personal details. Now this is where it stop with the similarities between recent blog posts on gaming websites – I’m not going to go on and say ‘why didn’t Sony have better security’ or ‘Sony are a disgrace’. Sony has done excellent work over the years, has built up their fame with the PlayStation brand, and has a dedicated, strong backing. Now let me explain why you shouldn’t be angry at Sony for this…

[Danteh]

damn, seems like osama was a playstation network user... told ya that shit wasn't secure!

[movements]

So sites went overboard. No doubt.

[tehpees3]

I bore of these PSN articles. these hackers can attack anywhere they feel like. they just attacked PSN to take advantage of the situation with anon

[AAACE5]

Same here, i'm tired of these as well... but I guess they say eye for eye!

What I don't get is, something bad happens to a Sony product, people have compassion! Something bad happens to a MS product, people are up in arms saying burn the witch!

Just give both companies the same respect! This is kinda a good thing, because it shows Ps3 fanboys how it felt to get hit with all the red ring crap.

[gamingdroid]

So we should just overlook the issue because Sony is "trying" their best? This is severe negligence on so many levels and I'm glad heads are rolling!

This should set an example for other companies. When RROD happened, well people still talk about it and that is GOOD!

There should be repercussions when there is negligence involved. Keeps a company and their staff in check.

[user8397144]

I have seen that joke in almost all PSN articles this morning.

[Scyrus]

yeah so if anon really didnt do it why doesnt anon go after them? oooooh yeah double standards.

they are probably stray anonymous members that felt like doing it

[clintos59]

Danteh..

I wonder why he left xbl for psn? Oh yeah I think he was tired of seeing his 360 die so much & switched over to psn lol. Hey guess he can finally RIP with all of his other 360's.

[zealottt]

Yes thats right, we should hate the gaming blogs for posting the facts.

-Refusing to tell us that personal information was obtained until a week later
-making a crappy security system in the first place

etc

[radphil]

"Yes thats right, we should hate the gaming blogs for posting the facts. "

I hope to god you're joking....

[fedexas]

Um...no.

But thanks for trying.

[Kazeke754]

This shows that u indeed know the facts /s

[Scary69]

I don't hate Sony and I also do not believe in a full secure network. If a hacker wants to get in he or she will no matter what. I think Sony took the proper precautions to deal with the situation this is a lesson for MANY individuals to STOP saving personal information on any type of system.

[Eyeco]

i wasn't really bothered by the countless number of hate articles i mean Sony done it to themselves at the end of the day, but what amazed me is how Fanboys were defending Sony for losing their Personal info

i mean seriously how can you defend a billion dollar company for getting pwned by some basement hackers and putting your financial info at stake, your defending sony for screwing you over, wow no wonder why people call sony fanboys the worst.

call the media biased or what ever but this generation has just been bad publicity one after the other for sony, they've straight up done it to themselves, they even admited they screwed up so why can't there fans ?

[MrDead]

Sony attacks the hacker, hackers and the gaming blogs attack Sony.

[Max Power]

Hackers attack Sony, Sony retaliates, hacker and "media" attack Sony.

[fedexas]

That's exactly right Max Power. The hackers couldn't stand the fact that Sony took a stand against them. I hope they're caught and prosecuted.

[PirosThe4th]

So true...
I the media went overboard i reckon considering most accounts didn't really have any real info and were multiple accounts from same system. They took it as if there were 77 million people that lost their identity... :P
OFF TOPIC:
Max Power... lol I used to use that name at a time.

[Chocoboh]

No I agree, we should be angry at Geohot for allowing these actions to even take place. People get mad at Sony because they are trying to protect their software from being jailbroken so people can pirate games and play them for free.

I don't see the sense in some people, if you want to pirate games than buy a freaking PC. If you wanna use Linux on the PS3.. no comment cause you're an idiot

[PirosThe4th]

Really if you want to pirate game don't even touch PSN. That was the main issue. Pirates tried to go online and stuff with their hacked PS3. I got 2 PS3 one i got emulators and such and other with legit firmware and all my games. Seriously why people think that everyone who hacks their things and such would just pirate every game. I buy all the games I actually play.
Piracy just happens and Sony should be used to it. If it wasn't for piracy ps2 wouldn't be that popular because i would lose sales of many countries where they never buy games. Such as 3rd world countries. You people would never understand.

The worst part is that it lead to this. Unfortunately...

Kill all my bubbles if you want but its a fact. Sony is doing well in defending the system and fighting against hackers... but just because of the nature of the exploit since it released the actual keys that sign the files which is Sony's property. It's funny how anyone can jailbreak an iPhone and it's cool but when someone does it with a console then its all bad and evil :P

[mastiffchild]

iPhone is a special case because of the Adobe/Jobs BS which falsely cripples the damn things. When you think of all the apps free on android but that cost on IOS we just get a murkier picture than ever. Apple were trying a lot harder than Sony ever have to force a kind of monopoly on customers. Sure, at one end there's similarities and to me you're a thief if you file share any IP on any system ,end of-but Apple were a different case to Sony, MS or anyone else with falsely laid down limits costing consumers extra for less.

Still-I wouldn't ever call a hacker a hero. I save those kinds of words for those who deserve them for their bravery and good works that benefit us all. Mandela, MLK, Rosa Lee Parks or, imho, Trotsky=heroes. Geohot? Not the same thing.

[ChozenWoan]

+1 Well Said mastiffchild

Sony has been trying to protect gamers and developers with all of the security they put into the PS3 and PSN. Jailbreaking the PS3 is what lead to this attack, which is not something you can even come close to doing with a jailbroken Iphone.

People forget that real Hackers are always looking at the big picture... money. Time is money and why spend so much time cracking a console if there isn't any money involved in the end.

The sad part is, Sony made a deal with Georgy boy. If they where still in court, they could have really cleaned up on Hacker info. And this attack would have made their case 100% solid that Georgy's work had done irreparable harm to Sony.

[PirosThe4th]

Pretty predictable answers... Selfish.

[Tyre]

people want to have megaflair and look cool by attacking Sony, it's getting tiresome. People talking out of their A#$! go on defend the people who are obstructing true gamers and the gaming community, the criminal crackers are the ones to blame...this breach wasn't the hackers, even Sony doesn't put the blame on the hackers (like Anon) for this latest breach.

[Scyrus]

exactly, Its like blaming a person who got shot for getting shot without blaming the shooters

[ZeroChaos]

I few blogs/website did seem very anti Sony recently.

[MysticStrummer]

Looking at N4G on a regular basis is enough to make a person hate gaming blogs, no matter what your personal console preference is. Even if you game on all platforms, it's obvious how biased some of these bloggers are and you'll eventually read something that makes you say "That's bull****!".

[BlmThug]

Theirs Worser Things In The World Like Al Qaeda BTW Bin Laden Is Dead :D

[mastiffchild]

And how would a martyred Bin Laden be a lesser threat to world security?

[yewles1]

And it's thinking like THAT which causes atheism to expand. lol

[mastiffchild]

@yewles but THAT would be a great leap forwards for mankind seeing as organised religion has seen billions die and continues to this day it's rampant dirge of doom.

I can see why the US wanted to get BL BUT to have him dead and then humiliated(in the eyes of many muslims) by burying him at sea was plain daft. Even if they couldn't get him alive then surely showing his family and religion some respect post death would have been more than prudent? I realise the vast majority of those who fol.ow Islam are way more moderate than BL was but it's still a touchy issue and the treatment of even a bogeyman like BL became to the west should have been given a LOT more care and thought. they made him a bigger poster boy for militant jihadists the world over today and anyone with a brain can see that.

I don't defend the man, don't believe in anything he ever stood for but even he had a family who loved him and to take away their rights to a family burial seems very foolish and incendiary.

[solidworm]

These faggotty blog sites and uber fanboy fcuks have given the hackers the green light to go for whoever they want.

[Habylab]

Not really, just pointing out why we shouldn't completely blame Sony.

[hot111]

Another damage control article...how nice

[whitezagetsu71]

Here is the one thing I find funny about the whole situation how everyone exaggerated the "77,000,000 user accounts" personal information and CC# being endangered, then I get on LBP2 and scratch my head and ponder where the hell are these 77 million user at. I mean it barley gets to 9 thousand 24 thousand on a good day... I mean if its really 77 million users on PSN why do everyone say XBL has the most active online user base and the have 40 million registered accounts I mean journalist and bloggers saw only this "sony screwed up 77 million registered PSN accounts" and ran and type up their bash on sony and Xbox rules article and tried to mask it with were concerned about people identity to cover up them being fanboys....................... ....... WOW how the world has changed.

[hiredhelp]

Whitezagetsu71
not everybody bought lbp' and also Sony records all accounts registered that includes the following.
Accounts being made up for IE your partner to play on, IE separate fake account for say USA PSN ect. Lastly for those consoles that either got sold broke that didn't get deactivated by the user or couldn't.
All of these are accounted for even if there not used. There still live unless deactivated.

[outwar6010]

i lost respect for sony for taking a week or so to tell me my financial info may have been compromised

[hiredhelp]

Then change your avatar. Infact they let us know way b4 a week. be leave 3 days from last Wednesday

[jke82]

ya ever think that maybe it took sony that long to trace the logs to discover exactly where the intruder went...i mean i figure a network that can handle a 70+ million load of people on it is pretty complex and may take a bit more than a cursory look to find problems.

and your cc info was encrypted and hence pretty close to impossible to even look at
for example most CC info uses 256bit encryption which would litterally take decades to crack without the keys DECADES....my credit car expires in december..

[hiredhelp]

It is complex .

[CoolerThanU]

I don't understand why everyone is praising Sony.
They trusted the client side connection. Anyone with basic knowledge about running a Server knows you can NEVER trust the client. Clients can be modified, they are in the wild.
And this compensation:
1 Free month of PSN Plus, which after the month is over you lose access to. In fact it can save your games on the Cloud and then once it expires you wouldn't be able to retrieve them without signing up for the plus service.

So Sony loses your: Date of Birth, Address, Full Name, Username, Password, Email, Purchase History and possibly your CC info? (They have no evidence but are nor ruling it out? That's not a clear answer whatsoever we must assume the worst or be taken advantage of by criminals.)
They say well, you can test out our plus service for a month for free, but after that sorry you'll have to pay.
Their compensation is a marketing scheme. Hopefully most of you will realize that this compensation is nothing more than a wolf in sheep's clothing...but I fear I am the minority with my view on it.

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

Sony didn't loose the info, they were stolen.

And is PS+, not PSN+. And the only thing expires about that are the Full Games, and Cloud Service.

The Discounts for content are great, the DLC's, Avatars, Themes are permanent.

Can't believe after months of PS+ still people like you don't know the differences.

[mananimal]

Gamers should hate themselves for being Ignorant on Politics, Business, Social Politics, and Fearful, and Completely under the Mind Control of the Social Media and Marketeers, you are SHEEPLE, easily trapped, easily fooled, couldn't think yourself out of a wet paper bag. Divided and confused on the issues, They've(THE INDUSTRY) got you by the Balls, and you dont even know it. lol....yah keep watching that PROGRAMING sheeple.