Winterblink
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Huh. Most complex viral marketing scheme ever?dr_octagon said:
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PSN Hack Update: FAQs in OP, Read before posting
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hikarutilmitt
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Kafel said:
Where is that lol emote when we need it.
AgentChris
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Sony shouldn't have gone after those low life hackers.
Sony will most likely use a closed platform going forward.
Sony will most likely use a closed platform going forward.
Ok got my email from SCE, the good news is that my passwords used for my accounts are only for said accounts, I don't use them anywhere else. And aside from my CA account, all my other accounts have bogus info. But yeah, I'll change those passwords anyway when I have the chance.
jorma said:It's fairly easy since it's public data. But i don't think they are very common, i've only heard of criminals using someone elses id when identifying themselves after being arrested. Sucks for your police record but you wont lose money
In my previous job, (Which was with the goverment), someone applied to work with a stolen ID, they were able to even get a US Passport, with this stolen ID using the SSN, because the victim had not applied for a Passport.
AgentChris said:
lmao. First off, Sony will use a closed platform? Isn't PS3 already closed?
Graff Chokolo and GeoHotz only worked on linux and homebrew while making their releases antipiracy.
Sony sued the WRONG people. Instead of using free information from releases of Chokolo and Hotz to make the PS3 stronger (which they tried to when they unsuccessfuly tried to hire Koushik Dutta) and suing real pirate hackers like inventors of USB dongle hackers.
What is happening to Sony right now..is nothing but pure karma. Hotz may be not be a hero to the gaming populations here, but he is to the Android and iphone savvy communities for what he and EFF managed to do when they got jailbreaking legalized.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
params7 said:
Why is it always the Juniors?
The_Darkest_Red
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Seriously?params7 said:
Metalmurphy
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Karma...
not enough lols in the world.
not enough lols in the world.
Company didn't lose it. It was taken. But who else is he going to sue?dude said:
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Jax said:
Kind of a strong reaction to the victim seeking recompense. Isn't this exactly the kind of thing that class-action suits are for?
Also, is there a need to insult Americans as a group? If you responded to a story about a Black person committing a crime with "Fucking disgusting criminal Blacks" you'd be banned, right? I'm not even a particularly patriotic, proud-to-be type, but it makes you look like an asshole.
Seraphis Cain said:
Because confirmation bias. Don't say stupid shit about entire groups of people.
Metalmurphy
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Must be because of Karma.params7 said:
The_Darkest_Red
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Just... stop. Please.params7 said:
SolsticeZero
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As a person who mods his Android phone pretty much daily, I owe a lot to people like GeoHotz, Koush, and Cyanogen. They've made it possible. Granted, I don't believe in hacking for purposes of piracy (or for cheating on trophies. I worked to damn hard for my Demon's Souls platinum to let someone else claim a false one), but there is nothing wrong with modding and homebrewing. Unfortunately, once you have those, the pirates find a way to make theirs work, too. I think that's how Sony viewed it. They tried to get rid of the root problem, and they got the backlash for it.
Do I condone what the hacker did? Fuck no. I want to play my Portal 2 online, god damnit! But Sony did prove one thing. They proved that a big company who uses a large storage cloud should think twice before angering these type of people.
Do I condone what the hacker did? Fuck no. I want to play my Portal 2 online, god damnit! But Sony did prove one thing. They proved that a big company who uses a large storage cloud should think twice before angering these type of people.
Revolutionary
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This is most definitely not one of those cases.params7 said:
DXB-KNIGHT
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Got my e-mail (angry sigh)
dude said:
The perception is that the US is bloody litigious. That's from someone not from the US. The OT has a thread about a lawsuit brought before a jury for a $0.99 hotdog. So yeah, I think my impression is about right.
and then theres the 30 million lawsuit against a korean laundromat because of a pair of missing pants...
The American legal systems makes it too easy to sue for everything and while I'm all for the legal system being in place to protect I do think that a lot of people in the US milk every oppourtuity to sue. Hot coffee? Sue. Dude chases starbucks tips thief, gets pushed by thief onto curb on the street.. family sues starbucks... etc...
anyhow
http://www.techfirm.com/
just because there's 70 million PSN ids, don't mean there's 70 million customers. I have 3 PSN accounts myself.. and they're attributing this to a global client base?
You guys should all contact them and get in on this lawsuit. I'm being serious here. FREE MONEY.
Equus Bellator Apex
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params7 said:
fucking jumior....
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Zoe said:
Agreed on both counts. I figure if the lawsuit isn't well-formed at this point, it won't make it very far. Maybe I have too much faith in the system, though.
Metalmurphy
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A lot of people have no idea what they're talking about though.shidoshi said:
Gamecocks625
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Sony is feeling the payback for letting Square publish Final Fantasy for the Xbox 360. The other foot has now been shot.
I'm an expert.
I'm an expert.
The_Darkest_Red
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You're right, I'm sure Sony is thinking "we better not mess with those Hackers ever again!"params7 said:
Again --- seriously?
-Pyromaniac-
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only 3? amateur.Paznos said:
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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Jax said:
I was waiting for this happen. I don't care about the monetary compensation but the free credit monitoring/protection sounds reasonable.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Jax said:
You're right that Americans may as a group be likely to sue over stupid shit because of the way our legal system is set up and aspects of our culture. One anecdote about a hotdog isn't evidence for that belief however, which is a broad statistical claim. So yeah, your impression is based on your own poor reasoning.
Furthermore, there's no way to confidently attribute this guy's actions to a shitty American litigious culture rather than a reasonable sense of having been wronged. If racial stereotyping and sexual orientation stereotyping are outlawed here, why isn't national stereotyping?
All i can say about this is that i am quite peed off with Sony at the moment about two thing 1 was storing my password as a plain text on a server ( what was you thinking) and secondly not telling us sooner about how bad this secruity breach was. Now i may have to go to the bank in the morning and tell them to cancel my debit card just to be on the safe side.
Metalmurphy said:
That's why I said "if". When you start hearing so many different sources saying pretty close to the same thing, though, it isn't hard to believe (or at least consider). And IF the case was that Sony's security was total ass, they deserve to be on the end of a lawsuit. When you're collecting so much personal information about people, you either do your job and keep that shit as locked down as you can, or you should pay the price. (Or, you know, be smart enough to know you're too stupid to be the safe-keeper of such information in the first place.)
CadetMahoney
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Paznos said:
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