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Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony
RedEaredSlider writes "The hacker collective Anonymous has made good on its threat to attack Sony, having launched a distributed denial-of-service attack on Wednesday afternoon. The attack is revenge for the legal action taken against another hacker who modified a PlayStation 3. Sony Computer Entertainment America filed suit against George Hotz, also known as Geohot. Hotz had released a firmware modification that allowed a Sony PlayStation 3 to run other operating systems. Sony had removed that functionality some months before. The suit is still pending."
Am I now part Sony's subpoena to get user IPs from ./ who comment on Sony stories?
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Ever since the rootkits, lik sang and the most recent scuffles.
This may not be the legal way to retaliate, but I approve anyway!
This is the sig that says NI (again)
Isn't there a better way to get back at Sony then DDOSing there web page? Granted it works, the general public/politicians are made aware but why not do something more sinister? Spread investor rumors that cause their stock price to crash or disable their corporate email system. Something to truly cripple them would be the most effective way at getting back.
Anonymous are not fucking hackers - it's fucking stupid to call them that - they are mearly script kiddies who DDOS and think they're cool.
Wouldn't it be far more effective to ddos their psn servers.
They dare to put offline servers owned by sony???
Don't they understand the concept of private property???
Would they like it if Sony did the same and one day decided to put a rootkit on its cds to make them difficult to copy, or issued a firmware upgrade that disables capabilities which were sold and advertised on its consoles? huh? HUH?
seriously, a boycott is safer and makes more sense. It would need to be extended to the banks that probably own sony, so it boils down to getting new hardware only when sorely needed.
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More like cracker collective.
Mmm, crackers. Now I just need a wine collective and a cheese collective.
It would be sweetly ironic if hacked Play Station 3s were used as part of the attack.
Fight Spammers!
Or truly ignorant gamers. See the comments on this article at the Inquirer. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2041179/anonymous-takes-playstation-website-playstation-network Either there are a lot of very stupid gamers who forget the sony rootkit incident, and who also need to get a life, or this is Sony's class of counterattack. Sadly, Sony will be able to use this against GeoHot, as in "all those hackers are alike, see?" Gheesh.
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
How much do you want to bet the idiots defending Sony - being those who go beyond supporting SONY but defending them with ignorance of the facts [law, how hacking works, how the firmware hack works, the law, etc], slander / libel, and in some cases death threats to GeoHot and his supporters - pin GeoHot for this?
If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot
This move by Anonymous was not an act of revenge directly related to the GeoHotz debacle at all. Everybody assumes the two are directly related, when in fact they are not.
Anonymous has taken measures against Sony because of the clear abuse of the judicial system undertaken by the company which has been bordering on the violation of the rights of US citizens. It is apparent to Anonymous that Sony has overextended their reach, and are getting away with it based on their size, power and financial status. It is a clear exploitation of the legal system by a greedy corporate entity.
While I do not agree with Anonymous' methods, their point still stands, and what they have done is an unfortunate but neccessary eye opener for large companies that think they are above the law when faced with similar circumstances.
Sony has yet to apologize for the way they have handled their SOE arm of the business.
Terrible company, just terrible.
Its been my experience that unless people are inconvenienced they seem to overlook the misdeeds of corporations. And to reel them back in just wait until something goes on sale. This is a mere passing event..............until the next sale.
Only the informed practice what they preach with their wallets. The uninformed........well they have not been inconvenienced yet!!
DDoS accomplishes nothing and makes those who support hacking consoles look like criminals. This is just more ammunition for Sony to use in court.
We need to get a ruling that hacking your own hardware is legal. It's not ever going to happen with these guerilla practices.
Calling 4chan "hackers" is like calling the kids in special ed "rocket scientists".
I don't own a single Sony branded product and likely never will, but this sad temper-tantrum that so-called Anonymous is throwing is doing nothing to help GeoHot and everything to hurt him. Lets not do anything, like stop buying their products or telling your friends why they shouldn't be buying them. Let's just egg their house instead!
This isn't the kind of people I want on my side during a court case of the this magnitude. DOSS attacks are for the lazy.
Gone!
"Hotz had released a firmware modification that allowed a Sony PlayStation 3 to run other operating systems."
If that's all he did I wonder why Sony is so mad at him. It's not like he leaked their secret or anything. If he did that then I could see Sony breaking out the big legal hammer.
Or perhaps the summary is trying to paint St. George in a better light to inspire some sympathy from those who don't know better.
...they're as close to a sit-in as you can get, as far as non-violent but effective protest goes.
Often, illegal things have to be done to right wrongs, especially when the laws are written by those doing the wrongs.
(If the wrongs are severe enough, extremely illegal things may be morally OK, on the other hand. As in, using the second amendment to defend oneself against violations of rights.)
Is to go online and slam them in reviews on every site they advertise their wares, services, etc. Millions of potential customers base their purchasing decisions on these metrics. Sites like Amazon, Newegg, Google Products, Yelp (SONY Stores), and so on. Of course these would have to be honest reviews about products actually purchased, services actually experienced and stores actually attended.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
Hotz=hacker
Anonymous=cracker
Summary shouldn't lump both together as hackers.
I'm curious, how much damage does something like turning off PSN for 24 hours do in actual money? They had to hire a security firm so it can't just be a little bit. What variables play a role?
Lo and behold, for I am a sig!
Just read that article... it's just garbage. A splinter group of anonymous? How could they have a splinter group? 3 posts in an IRC channel that everyone in the world has access to mean they did it? I could ddos Sony and post it in that IRC channel. Next time there's a major earthquake I'm going to log into a channel called OpQuake claiming Anon is activating its earthquake machine... bet it makes CNN. People are stupid.
Don't attack Sony right now.
The Japanese need their games.
Have a heart.
I'm of 2 minds over this subject, on one hand, i can hardly consider vigilantism appropriate. but as someone who was burnt by sony, i feel a personal justification of "serves them right".
on the other hand though, this is bringing a lot more attention the case, which is exactly what is needed for the "free market" to do its job properly. Even if its being gone about the wrong way, the attention of the masses to the court case and the nasty tactics that are being employed by sony is really important.
and no one listens or cares, not even the servers.
Fucking faggots!
And I wrote about this on my blog last month. SLOW!
SHeesh!
I am lurking the IRC and they said they were planing to.
Stop buying Sony products? Even if every geek who is aware of the issues did that, Sony would only loose a small percentage of their income. The consumer sheeple out there don't know any different or don't care. Extend that beyond the PS3's to other Sony products - phones, laptops, etc. and the geek boycott becomes a minor ripple.
And I'll challenge you to actually stop buying Sony products. It is harder than you think. That new game you've been eyeing that doesn't say "Sony" on it anywhere? probably made/distributed by Sony - watch the opening credits. That new electronic device you want probably has some Sony product in there.
While I don't agree with what amounts to vandalism (ddos'ing servers), sometimes a more drastic method is needed. All the people who can't access PSN today may actually find out WHY, and start learning about the greater issues. Sony actually takes a bigger financial AND social hit this way. In one single day, more damage has been done to their reputation than a week of geeks trying to boycott Sony would ever cause.
Unbelievable the things that go on in this company that you will never hear about. I used to love Sony products, several years as a Sony Spouse has changed that. Give 'em hell Anonymous!
User beware! The IBtimes article in the summary attempts to redirect to a fake antivirus page
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Isn't there an anonymous press release like every 10 min? Is anyone implementing this particular one?
It'll be more effective just posting stuff about all their products are radio active now. You could make a youtube video of yourself with a geiger counter showing the radiation. You might post maps about contamination of their warehouses in Japan, conjecturing their supply chain will bring radio active products to the U.S. until 2013.
The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. -- Bertrand Russell
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Back when I wanted to buy a digital camera, I looked at a couple of competing models from Sony, Panasonic, and Canon. All of them were of the "superzoom" type, with ambitiously-specified zoom lenses.
Sony's products were loaded with features -- fancy modes, gadgets, and a shiny, sleek interface. They had the marketing campaign to back them up, too.
But their lenses ... agh. They had *horrible* chromatic aberration, that optical defect that causes different colors to not focus the same way and creates colored fringes around everything. This isn't something that makes the ad campaigns, but it *is* something that professional reviewers (fortunately) turn up, and something that will be present in every picture you take.
Panasonic's cameras, on the other hand (back then) were pretty simple. The one I bought had very few widgets that weren't actually related to taking a picture, and a pretty basic/ugly on-screen display that showed the image preview, f/number, and shutter speed, along with the focus reticle. They had the fastest autofocus of any of them, and the best and brightest lenses of any of them, using special (not cheap) ED glass to further reduce aberrations. Remaining aberrations were analytically characterized and compensated for (as much as possible) by the camera's image processor automatically. None of this is stuff they advertised, but it sure showed in the images -- I have giant prints from that camera hanging on my walls that look fantastic.
Since when were Anonymous "hackers"? Script kiddies, maybe.
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Lately i have been explaining pc security to my son. Having gotten past man in the middle attacks i was wondering where the next lesson would fall. Well he complained about not being able to log on to P.S.N. so i tried and failed. So i got his undivided attention for todays lesson DDOS for dummies
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Sony is getting skullfucked by karma
Hotz released his hypervisor hack for PS3 and then Sony removed the ability to run other OSes in response.
Hotz then released another hack later which brought the ability to run other OSes back.
Hotz did not just act to restore something Sony had removed, Hotz acted first by breaking out of the penalty box that other OSes ran in. You may agree or disagree with breaking out of the penalty box, but either way, that was the first punch that started the battle between Hotz and Sony, not Sony removing the capability to run other OSes.
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1. Refusing to move to the back of a bus for a white person.
Geez, it's just a seat! Come on, why don't you just move? You're ruining it for other bus passengers by disrupting their ride.
2. Throwing hundreds of crates of someone else's tea into the harbor
Geez, it's just a small tax! Come on, why don't you just stop drinking tea? You're ruining it for other tea drinkers by disrupting their supply of tea.
3. DDoS on Sony.
Geez, it's just video games! Come on, why don't you just stop buying from Sony? You're ruining it for PSN users by disrupting their service.
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maybe $ony is butturt that the us air force has managed to cobble together a supercomputer from their gaming consoles.
A defence case is quite easy against SONY. Once you buy a PS3 it is your property and you can do with it what you like and SONY does not have a leg to stand on.
I might even buy a PS3 and make a movie just for the hell of it and put it on you tube. First I will torture it in a microwave, connect a car battery to it and fry it's brains (Electric Chair) then smash it into pieces with a hammer and set it on fire.
Well if I decide to buy one, I own it. The you tube video would go viral!
All cows eat grass!
... would be if everyone bought PS3s and didn't buy any commercial games - instead used them to run Linux - Mame - Stella - bzflag - XBill - etc.
Early in PS3's life, game developers were avoiding development on the PS3 due to it's low game to console sales ratio compared to the other platforms out there. If everyone bought PS3s to play non-$ony games, $ony will have a much harder time getting developers to develop new games for the PS4 - the only way $ony can regain control of the crypto rights limitation system as they screwed the pooch big time with this one.
Someone PLEASE release a Games focused Linux distro for the PS3 that is as simple as imaging a thumb drive or burning a CD/DVD iso and rebooting the console. This would do way more damage to $ony's bottom line than any temporary DDOS attack.
Even more fun - include BasiliskII, DosBox and Wine/Bochs so that it can run thousands of old Mac and M$DOS games and even newer M$ games. That way you can make the PS3/Linux platform much more desirable than the PS3/PSN $ony locked down one. Make it easy to use and stable enough and it could steal a chunk of business from some other large evil corporation.
Oh, and even more fun, also include open office, email tools, firefox, to replace desktop PCs, and also throw in a bunch of media player tools.
$ony wins the desktop box wars with hardware they subsidize but you fully control.
Much worse than a DDOS, and mostly legal. ;^)
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fuck sony. don't buy sony. don't let friends buy sony. sony are shit.
***sigh***
While I don't agree with Sony's practices, and well, they have no idea of how negatively their tactics impact their sales. However, as Sony is not the only company impacted by this. Yesterday was the first time in over a month that I powered up my PS3 to download and install Socom 4 Beta, and well, I was lucky enough to download and install it, I was done after that as I could no longer connect to their network.
So, while I can see why they think it's a great idea by bringing attention to these issues, they really are no different then (and forgive me, but it really is the same) the Tea Party. Young idealistic people who think that they can change the world by running head first at the establishment and thinking it will change. It is counter-productive, and tends to cause the established group to over-compensate.
Meanwhile, scam artists are still running major scams on Craigslist and in e-mail. Nobody has flooded out their sites with crap; this is because these people are criminals that want attention, not vigilante superheroes making the world a better place.
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Anonymous vs Sony leaves me no one to root for.
They're like two assholes, farting at each other.
Sell it. Do not use or keep the PS3. If there is a flood of used PS3s on the market, nobody that wants one will need to pay Sony money for a new one anymore.
Granted, Sony was already selling the consoles under their cost (where's the federal dumping sanction?), knowing that anyone that owns a PS3, used or not, may buy other Sony products such as games. OtherOS was a promised selling feature, but now they brick PS3s so you can only run their purchased games.
If you own a PS3, then you are a Sony customer; a group also known as potential lawsuit defendants. It's probably better to just destroy the damned device rather than let it report your IP address back to Sony or encourage anyone else to pay another cent for Sony product for it.
Just bringing down the web page is useless. Bring down the game servers and Sony WILL have a problem or a least a few angry customers.