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Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony

Posted by samzenpus on from the attack-of-the-month-club dept.

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."

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  1. Sony astroturfers out in force by DCFusor · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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  2. Re:Why DDOS? by pnewhook · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, let the free market decide, not a bunch of teenage vigilantes trying to push their own sense of morality on another company Nazi style. I like Sony product, they work for me so I'll continue to buy them.

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  3. Re:That's preposterous! by AmberBlackCat · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck you.