[advocatusdiaboli]

Hmm, I have a PS3 60GB running 3.15 with OtherOS, a PS3 80 GB for running 3.55 homebrew, and a PS3 slim for running 3.72

And I only buy games at the price lower than $25

[Kondor1]

Originally Posted by jc_gargma I think a better article title would be "The Hacking Community A Victim Of A Sophisticated Vendetta By Sony" Sony dropped the ball on security, was told by hackers "Hey Sony, there is a hole here, plug it cause I want to help you" and they refused to listen, cause they were given this info by hackers. Sony has no-one but themselves to blame for April, and every action they have made since has only demonstrated Sony's total arrogance to its own failings, and passed the blame onto "those evil hacker people," and even used it as justification to exact unjust ToS's, further control its consumer base, and to erode the legal protections of those who use electronic devices from the concept of ownership and privacy.

Sony allowed accounts from 10 years to be compromised. Excuse me, but has the PS3 been out for 10 years? This means there were accts from PS2 online era there as well. They were transmitting in plaintext cc#s (albiet old numbers that were no longer valid) which is against USA laws to transmit them that way. So technically they were breaking the law and people found out, so they shut things down to fix it. Any joe schmoe could have ran a packet sniffer on a college campus to cause havoc or find out they were doing this. Oh but that doesnt get in the news at all.

[pepethedon]

Did anyone forget who we're talking about?

This is $ony, right here! Some of the grimiest business minds in the world! Of course they're gonna play the sympathy role after causing rukus. It's the equivalent of America and their wars. We'll destroy your country and then after we ****ED UP we'll get one of our puppets to ensure you it was a necessary deed. THIS is REAL facism.

[lythong266]

For anyone who blame Sony for hacking PlayStation Network. You need to know Steam also had been hack.

Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users: Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums. We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating. We don’t have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely. While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well. We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password. We will reopen the forums as soon as we can. I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience. Gabe.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/

[GregoryRasputin]

Originally Posted by lythong266 For anyone who blame Sony for hacking PlayStation Network. You need to know Steam also had been hack.

That has nothing to do with Sony, PS3 Hackers or anyone in the PS3 Scene, so is irrelevant to this subject.

[ry31]

I just think Sony has to be smarter who they go after. Sony is a company and as that there job is to make money. I understand why they would want to stop piracy but the reality is no one can stop it. Also the amount of people that are pirating games isn't really a huge loss.

I know talking about piracy isn't allowed on here but I'm trying to make a point and I feel this article is about piracy to. Right now on one of the more popular site uncharted 3 was downloaded less then 1000 times. The game sold 3.8 million units on the very first day it was released. In the scheme of things they are trying to stop minor losses in the big scheme of things.

Not everyone using a CFW is going to pirate games. So to go after a community that is flat out better is just stupid. Its almost like a pro MMA fighter taking your sandwich. Yeah it sucks but there is nothing you can do about it because of the consequences. And make no mistake about it Sony got there handed with the hacking. Yeah hacking is part of the world we live in, but they put a target on your back your just asking for it.

The funny part to me is they were warned and still got destroyed. That a billion dollar company can't stop it.

[pepethedon]

My point is: The words "sympathy" and "$ony" should NEVER be used in the same sentence.

[OoZic]

Originally Posted by Kondor1 “The target opportunity was a revenge attack, initially — it was because we went after a hacker who hacked PlayStation,” he said. “PlayStation is vital to us, and so we were afraid that it would essentially destroy a PlayStation.” This is pretty much weird wording. I believe he is referring to the Sony Playstation Network when he mentions "Playstation" and not the computer console itself.

No, he meant the PlayStation 3... Graf_chokolo reversed engineered the PS3 HyperVisor for almost 100%. The HyperVisor is very essential to the PS3 and we still benefit from Graf his work. They (German Police and German $ony representatives) even used Nazi tactics (raid's) to find and confiscate his work, the HyperVisor Bible. Not once, but twice !!

If you look at the real terrorists in Germany... they are free to do whatever they want: http://www.euronews.net/2011/11/12/b...-murders-case/
Only when they kill themselves and the female member of the terrorist group burns down the house the German police comes in action. They even say the German Secret Service knew about this terrorist group but did nothing...
This is the real proof big companies like $ony can buy police help if they need it.....Protecting the PS3 is more important to the German Police as protecting German and Turkish living people

[hellsing9]

Im still believe that exists a B-Side (and even a C-side) of this Story, I remembered when Dark Sector (PC game) Was cancelled one week previous to official release, and two months later in Russia many people had Dark sector even in Electronic Stores and im not talking about some crappy port o not finished product Im talking about the Retail Version of it.

So...Maybe when *we* as a community do a research or argue or talk about a subject *we* are most of the time missing were the info come from.
Why Indonesia with TB made a debut? (besided being faulty or for some ppl useless).
And no some other Country?..Because the Laws?.
Why a German Hacker?..finds a flaw and with help of others now we have a CFW and tons of usefull apps and games.

Get my point?
Why the Country is SO particular about this, or better *the location*?.