Hackers Who Hit Sony Now Breach Nintendo's U.S. Website

[pepharytheworm]

So they have to hit the extreme before you'll consider what they did to be bad? It's not that they broke into a company and stole credit card information, it's not bad that they've attacked multiple companies, and it's not bad that they've attacked other companies for saying things they didn't care for.

Look, you want to see folks affected by it? Ask anybody who has been unable to play PlayStation games with friends and family for the last month. Ask the folks who have been unable to use the services they wanted to use, like Netflix. Hell, ask the folks here, the ones who wanted to run fighting game tournaments with each other but couldn't do it. Sure, Sony updates their security, that is a silver lining, but it doesn't by a long shot justify what methods this group used.

Exactly. These people are are criminals who think it's fun to prey on other people. Anyone that thinks that cool is an idiot.

Sony shouldn't have left the barn doors wide open. Simple as.

Well, I hope you always shut and lock your doors.

[Flake]

Just because you can get in a persons door doesn't mean you're supposed to. Unlawful entry is still a crime even if you don't have to kick the door in.

[Niode]

Sony shouldn't have left the barn doors wide open. Simple as.

Well, I hope you always shut and lock your doors.

I do, because I'm not a complete fucking moron.

Just because you can get in a persons door doesn't mean you're supposed to. Unlawful entry is still a crime even if you don't have to kick the door in.

Real life != Internet

[Flake]

Real life != Internet

When people are using the internet to disrupt the operations of multinational conglomerates and steal financial information of millions of people, shit gets pretty real.

[Niode]

Real life != Internet

When people are using the internet to disrupt the operations of multinational conglomerates and steal financial information of millions of people, shit gets pretty real.

If a group of people have the balls to steal from a bank when they leave the vault door open I can't help but feel that the bank is 100% at fault. I simply cannot blame the robbers, not in this day and age.

[Flake]

Real life != Internet

When people are using the internet to disrupt the operations of multinational conglomerates and steal financial information of millions of people, shit gets pretty real.

If a group of people have the balls to steal from a bank when they leave the vault door open I can't help but feel that the bank is 100% at fault. I simply cannot blame the robbers, not in this day and age.

In this instance the 'robbers' booted their computers up, loaded ISP masking software, logged onto the internet, accessed a hop point, went to the target URL, and executed malicious code / used a tool to exploit whatever security weaknesses were there.

If the 'robbers' had chosen to not do any of those things, they wouldn't be 'robbers'. It's not like they accidentally defaced PBS or unintentionally probed Nintendo. They chose to do this. Corporations should have the best security possible but a thief is still a thief even if the theft was easy.

[Niode]

In this instance the 'robbers' booted their computers up, loaded ISP masking software, logged onto the internet, accessed a hop point, went to the target URL, and executed malicious code / used a tool to exploit whatever security weaknesses were there.

Sounds like you've been playing too much Uplink.

BRB just creating a GUI interface in visual basic to hack the pentagon.

[Gamerforlife]

Real life != Internet

When people are using the internet to disrupt the operations of multinational conglomerates and steal financial information of millions of people, shit gets pretty real.

If a group of people have the balls to steal from a bank when they leave the vault door open I can't help but feel that the bank is 100% at fault. I simply cannot blame the robbers, not in this day and age.

WTF!?

[Flake]

Sounds like you've been playing too much Uplink.

BRB just creating a GUI interface in visual basic to hack the pentagon.

Not a clue what you're talking about. ISP masking and hop points are the basic tools of anyone doing something on the internet that they'd rather not have traced back to them.

[Niode]

If a group of people have the balls to steal from a bank when they leave the vault door open I can't help but feel that the bank is 100% at fault. I simply cannot blame the robbers, not in this day and age.

WTF!?

You leave your car door open with the keys in it and somebody steals your car? I have zero sympathy. You leave your house door open and somebody comes along and steals all your shit. Zero sympathy. You shouldn't have been a dumbass. Sony were (and still are, they've been hack FOURTEEN FUCKING TIMES NOW) dumbasses. Zero sympathy.

Sounds like you've been playing too much Uplink.

BRB just creating a GUI interface in visual basic to hack the pentagon.

Not a clue what you're talking about. ISP masking and hop points are the basic tools of anyone doing something on the internet that they'd rather not have traced back to them.

AKA Proxies and shell accounts.