Sony hacked..again
Twice in just a month? Not only was PSN down for so long, but the playstation store just not get back up and running and not without a lot of problems and unreleased content (I want my CoD maps!). I'm starting to have a hard time defending you Sony. I'm pissed that this happened after you hired three security firms to boost your security but you didn't bother to change information from jut plain text files. Now lulzsec has date of birth, gender, phone, postal address, full name, and email of over 1,000,000 Sony users. The real trouble comes when the people who use their sony password for many other sites and I recommend everyone who has done this to change your password on anything important to something more secure.
When I read the article though I saw that the motivations for these attacks amounted to nothing more than cyber-terrorism. The trouble started when Sony filed a lawsuit against a hacker with the handle geohot for allowing users to use the LInux install option to play homebrew applications and game backups on their ps3. This made enemies with a group of hackers who that in addition to the Sony hacks have confessed to hacking pbs earlier this week to censor an interview they felt was too negative about wikileaks. I don't care what someone did to you, thats censoring freedom of speech and that really angers me. People have started donating 'bitcoins', an anonymous money system that you can use to buy anything online from drugs to making untraceable donations.
Bottom line its cyber terrorism and no system is completely secure and it could happen to anyone if they wanted to try hard enough. I'm not going to be selling my ps3 anytime soon, but still sony. TWICE! Come on!
Tl;dr: Sony just got services running again and more data has been stolen by a group of hackers avenging a lawsuit. I'm pissed at everyone involved
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