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Hackers Attack Nintendo, But Company Claims Data Safe
Dr Herbert West writes with this from the Wall Street Journal: "Nintendo said Sunday that a server for its US unit's website had been hacked into but that no company or customer information was compromised.
The hacker group Lulzsec, which allegedly was behind other breaches of Sony websites earlier this week, claimed responsibility. Lulzsec posted a server configuration file as proof of its involvement yet said it wasn't targeting Nintendo. 'We just got a config file and made it clear that we didn't mean any harm,' the group said this morning via its Twitter.' Nintendo had already fixed it anyway. The attack comes as Nintendo this week launches its new online service for its 3DS hand-held game machine."
Much like Anonymous and their "decision" to not bring down Amazon around christmas time this was probably another case of trying, failing, then claiming they never tried.
tl;dr: lulzsec == fail.
Why attack Sony? Everything Sony did to tick off these "hackers" was the same thing any self-preserving company would have done. Are they mad that GeoHot settled out of court? Boo-freaking-hoo.
You think the Frontline Wikileaks episode was the sole reason? Sorry, pal, but PBS has done way more than that to harm the causes of freedom in the world, and the Wikileaks episode isn't the only government propaganda their guilty of spewing.
Also, you appear to have bought the propaganda hook line and sinker. Assange is a hero and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying, pure and simple. There is no "other side" to the story, any more than there's an "other side" to the belief that the Earth orbits the Sun.