Assholes trying to take down PSN

[Dylan]

Taking to the US and EU PlayStation Forums en masse, PlayStation 3 users continue to report connectivity issues with PlayStation Network today. Starting with the declaration of attack by hacker group "Anonymous" earlier this week, PSN has been experiencing sporadic issues over the past few days -- Sony characterized the outages as "intermittent" earlier this week, and promised that "engineers are working to restore and maintain the services." As of the time of publishing, we have been unable to connect to PSN today through several staff accounts.

According to a Sony EU forum moderator, a trio of error codes could be showing up for affected users (80710092, 80710D36 and 8071053D), though little else is offered in way of information. "We are currently looking into this and I will update the thread as more information becomes available," the post notes.

Additionally, PlayStation Lifestyle reports that a splinter group of Anonymous -- identified as "SonyRecon" -- is apparently going after specific Sony executives, seeking to reveal "names, phone numbers, pictures, home addresses, email, internet protocol address, family members and other data." CEO Sir Howard Stringer is said to be one of the group's targets, among others.

As previously detailed, Anonymous launched the attacks on Sony earlier this week as a sign of solidarity with hackers George "GeoHot" Hotz and Alexander "Graf_Chokolo" Egorenkov, both of whom are currently in litigation with Sony.

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Thoughts? Personally, I think this is positively atrocious behavior on the hackers' part and I condemn it on every level. This really isn't going to cause any significant damage to Sony, while the common user loses access to their services. It's ironic that these hackers are standing against Sony for removing features from their customers, when that's exactly what they themselves are doing now.

I don't expect everyone to agree with me on this, but I personally think that hackers are the biggest enemies of Playstation owners. This can be traced back to when Geohotz released his linux hack. While that hack wasn't remarkably useful or damaging, it was cause and effect with Sony and thus they removed linux from PS3s. While I don't approve of Sony's heavy handed response either, if Geohotz had kept it in his pants we wouldn't be dealing with that loss right now. Hacking is great and has the potential for positive things, but all of this is just not the right way to go about it.

[Flake]

These guys are a bunch of pompous bullshit cowards with an insane sense of entitlement.

Their claims to being 'Anonymous' had better be accurate - they've essentially committed cyber terrorism and if any of their members are US citizens, they are subject to federal law.

[CFFJR]

Additionally, PlayStation Lifestyle reports that a splinter group of Anonymous -- identified as "SonyRecon" -- is apparently going after specific Sony executives, seeking to reveal "names, phone numbers, pictures, home addresses, email, internet protocol address, family members and other data." CEO Sir Howard Stringer is said to be one of the group's targets, among others.

The whole thing is a pile of crap, but this part specifically...

What the fuck is the matter with these people? What kind of twisted logic are these idiots running on that they feel this horseshit is acceptable?

[sevin0seven]

these guys needs better things to do and put their "talents" in a positive way. sigh. what a waste.

[Ack]

So why not go to 4Chan and see if it's really Anonymous? Two seconds in /b/ ought to be enough.

And even if it is them, since when did they decide Sony PSN was a bigger threat than Scientology?

I think it's Niode.

[Czernobog]

These guys are a bunch of pompous bullshit cowards with an insane sense of entitlement.

This x1000. I have no idea how they manage to so arrogantly justify their actions to themselves.

[GSZX1337]

Damn, when was the last time I've read a positive story involving Sony?

[MrEco]

I'll simply quote a comment I made on a Gamesradar article talking about this.

"All of them are fucking criminals with a false sense of entitlement. They get boners from imagining that they are leading some kind of revolution like in V For Vendetta or something. What they are really doing is acting like the fucking Nazis or the Taliban and hurting innocent people under the guise of trying to make a better world."

[Niode]

So why not go to 4Chan and see if it's really Anonymous? Two seconds in /b/ ought to be enough.

And even if it is them, since when did they decide Sony PSN was a bigger threat than Scientology?

I think it's Niode.

Let me get this straight. I would not associate myself with that bunch of amateur fucking script kiddies. They are a joke. Anybody can put an IP in LOIC. That is not hacking.

Also, 'cyber-terrorism'. No terror was caused, nobody is going to die. It's more like 'cyber-nuisancing'. The authorities can try as much as they want to trace these numpties but if they weren't absolutely complete fucking retards they'd be behind a bunch of proxies and executing the DDOS attack from SSH anyway.

Anonymous is exactly that. Anybody can claim to be a part of Anon, it's not an exclusive club. Anybody can issue a 'release' and if other Anon (IE every body with an internet connection) decide to roll with it, it sticks and becomes an 'official' anon motion.

Personally I think it's absolutely atrocious what Sony are doing. They're not fighting against piracy, they're fighting over control. The right for Sony to dictate to you how you use your hardware. They want to make it so that little black box of tricks you buy isn't yours. They want to control every single thing you do with it. That is something I cannot accept, no matter what. It is the reason why I have boycotted Sony since Linux was removed from 'my' console. I will not be held hostage to Sony's whims. Only a fucking moron would accept that.

[Flake]

Also, 'cyber-terrorism'. No terror was caused, nobody is going to die. It's more like 'cyber-nuisancing'. The authorities can try as much as they want to trace these numpties but if they weren't absolutely complete fucking retards they'd be behind a bunch of proxies and executing the DDOS attack from SSH anyway.

They are disclosing information about the family members of private citizens (such as kids names, addresses, schools, etc) to threaten people into doing what they want them to do, i.e. drop lawsuits against George Hotz and co.

What do you call that?