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PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the bad-childhoods dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The hacking crew was not kidding about their Christmas DDoS attacks on Xbox & PSN. This morning the group started warmup attacks on the EA network, taking it down for 3 hours. The attacks were severe enough to take down the network completely, and EA issued apologies on its Twitter account. Phantom Squad is now carrying out DDoS attacks on PSN. Users started reporting outages in small areas around the world.

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  1. Time to turn the screws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is just another episode that demonstrates beyond all reasonable doubts that general purpose computers are not for the public anymore. There are too many services dependent on the internet now, and with the Internet of Things security will become a paramount issue.

    We must ban ordinary citizens from possessing general purpose computers. It's as simple as that. I understand many cannot have the scope to grasp this, but it's only logical: we're not in the '80s anymore. Nobody needs a programmable computer. We can all work and have our leisure time with locked-down devices. One dejected individual with a general purpose computer is like a madman with a gun: it's not acceptable. Programmers and developers will have to be registered with the authorities and work with reputable firms, and have their machines audited remotely so that we can be sure they won't devise any illegal software. Ban general purpose computers now.