News PlayStation Network outage to last indefinitely

This is a wakeup-call for the customers of wrong-doing corporations actually.

 

I wondered what was going on. I couldn't log in a few days ago, and figured the "undergoing maintenance" message was just a temporary thing. When I couldn't log in last night I started to wonder what was taking so long.

It's a shame, as now I'll never know where my mad drumming skillz rank in Rockband 3. Hmmph. On a serious note, will this affect PS3 game updates as well, or are those delivered through a different system? We've yet to play Lego: Indiana Jones because the 2 player mode is broken. We've been hoping for an update because right now the game is collecting dust.

 

It's Not Anon don't just say random things like that it's the whole reason the group has such a bad name because of idiots blaming everything cyber related on them.

 

Funny how in the USA it's legal to jailbreak an iPhone, but not a PS3.

 

So what, we just shouldn't buy products from companies which have actually done something when someone doesn't follow their terms & conditions? (not that anyone reads them anyway, but they're still there)

And this is more like a "you've done nothing wrong, but something you had no control over means that I'm going to stop you from playing games online" kind-of-thing.

 

Exactly his point, if I was buying a product from a company with this attitude I'd be reconsidering my next purchase from them.

Frankly I'm quite disgusted that Sony and other companies are allowed to tell people how they must use their products.

 

It's delivered through the same system, no updates 'til we can get back online I'm afraid.

As far as I've heard, it was a variation of a DOS attack that also crippled the server somehow, and Anon has said this time it wasn't them.

 

[smug mode] This affects me in no way at all. I do not own a ps3. [/smug mode]

I will say though; Sony are a victim of their own sucess. 75million users? That's alot of records to check who's have been tampered with, if any.

 

Some disgruntled employee's last day. "I wonder if this works" Types: format C:/

 

It's not the fact that he broke the T&C and they did something about it, its the way they carried out their action. They got the courts to give them lots of information including IP addresses of people who had visited his site, and also his paypal account details, which is a breach of privacy in my (and many others) opinion. This is where the problem is, not in them going after him, though that is also a problem due to the way they advertised the ps3 at first it seems a bit hypocritcal.

 

I have a PS3 and I'm torn on the GeoHot thing, whether this has something to do Anonymous or not (Also didn't both sides settle out of court ?)

On one side, yes I understand that you could/should have access to the hardware and be able to install home brew.
On the other, look what has happened - modded firmware allows free downloads. So Geo's version would have finished by allowing hacked copies of games - was this his intention, no, would that be the main reason people would hack their PS3? - Yes

But yes I also have PC for gaming needs, so I'm not too fussed about the PSN !

 

Glad I found this article. I was wondering what had happened. Thanks for the heads up.

 

it'd be funny if everyone's stats were wiped..

I would cancel my cc used since this was a hack.. no reason to end up with a surprise

 

I'll jump on that band wagon when a company like Koch Industries gets targeted. Not some online service ran by a company trying to establish legal grounds for moving their case to California (the reason why Sony sought the IPs in the case against George).

When he jailbroke the iPhone I don't recall him handing out the security key behind the entire DRM of the system to everyone.

[tinfoil hat]
Probably a bit of a stretch but didn't Amazon's Cloud service go down right around the same time Sony took PSN offline to address the breach? I recall Sony did enable cloud based storage of save files on the PS3 about 2 patches ago. [/tinfoil hat]

Sucks the service is down. Hasn't really impacted me though. Freed up some much needed time for Dragon Age II/Rift on my PC.

 

IMO Sony should also be punished by the full force of the law for the bait-and-switch that was advertising OtherOS as a system feature and then removing it from customers without any other reasonable alternative.

But Sony is a large corporation, so there is no chance...

 

Payback against Sony, right...

Explain that to the 12 year old kid who's been dying to play Portal 2 with his friends.

Congratulations assholes.

 

You'd think a huge corporation like Sony would have a backup they could just turn on.

 

You don't shut the entire network down unless some serious breach was detected. Hopefully nobody's account info like credit cards or adress information was stolen.

How old are you, twelve? Idiot.

 

Tinfoil at theory is that they are using "an external attack" as an excuse to finish some work that needed to be done to upgrade the system anyway / to fix a botched job at it.

Not very likely, more likely is that they have shut the network down to try to fix the exploit, though why its taking the this long... Incompetence is a word that springs to mind...

 

Will be interesting to see what was the actual cause once the system is back up and running, though if people have done this intentionly will proably be in court soon enough, enoying 75m users is never a good thing.