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Anonymous Denies Sony Claims of Disruption, Credit Info Theft

Posted by timothy on from the singular-or-plural-dammit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, in a letter to Congress, Sony detailed the steps they were taking to resolve the issues that have been plaguing them since the PlayStation Network and SOE online components were hacked, claiming to have found evidence linking the crime to Anonymous. Now, Anonymous has responded."

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  1. No they havent by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now, Anonymous has responded.

    No, one person has responded. As has been touted many many many times by people on Slashdot whenever news organizations do it, there is no central authority, there is no registered list. So yes, while that clique may not have done it, does not mean another clique didn't.

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    1. Re:No they havent by schnell · · Score: 5, Insightful

      they've still done a lot of good work bringing to light corruption and lies our governments feed us.

      I thought this was about Anonymous, not Wikileaks. Anonymous in particular and 4chan in general has not brought to light anything I'm aware of except tentactle porn torrents.

      Or have all Slashbot favorite entities merged into one? We can call it GNU WikiBuntuDroidNonymous. Like "Muad'dib" becoming a killing word, its very name will become a nerd totem of +5 Righteousness and +20 Defense Against Potential Girlfriends.

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  2. Deflection by Trip6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Blame your own incompetence on a well known public entity. A trick as old as the hills.

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    1. Re:Deflection by shish · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And made all the easier by Anonymous' nature -- it only takes one member (or one mole) to say "we did it", and even if all the others say "we didn't", the media can still point at that first voice as an authoritative one...

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  3. Re:Derp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    $ echo "We are legion" > Anonymous.txt

    Should I call the FBI now and get them to investigate an "intrusion perpetrated by Anonymous"?

    Seriously, if you think a text file left behind is proof of anything, I hope you never get called into jury duty.

  4. WHO responded? by melikamp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the response was anonymous, how do we know that the people who responded were the same as those who DDOSed? This, in a nutshell, is the idiocy of treating Anonymous as a group of people, however loosely organized. It would be better to call them what they are in this particular instance: Sony customers who are really pissed off.