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Re: SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised

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Post by JackWebbHeller »

praeclarum wrote: post #39
wbhart wrote: post #29

The thing that struck me first about this was the fact that it is in impeccable English, yet written as a kid would write. Something smells funny about that. What is to stop a competitor of Sony from trying to take them down under the guise of disenfranchised youth.

Funny, I didn't notice until you mentioned that. It is nicely written, and apostrophe use seems all right. :-) Not sure if I buy the "as a kid would write" bit, but it is surprising to see this. Maybe the hacker just took 10 mins and proofread his own text?

Or maybe we shouldn't stereotype, and assume these people - like you and I - can use proper grammar without even having to spend 10 minutes proofreading?

Re: SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised

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Post by spydum »

ary wrote: post #12
kevindication wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagree on absurdity. I'm certain that if you focused enough eyes on any company with as much surface area exposed to the internet you'd poke just as many holes.

Given how much bad publicity and legal exposure costs a corporation of Sony's size I'd say that getting their affairs in order across the board should have been a bigger priority. As it is wildly unreasonable not to have taken a good hard look at every piece of infrastructure after the fist major breach I'd say absurd describes this situation pretty well.

Even if they had hired all of the top ranked security firms the first day PSN was hacked, they would still be open to attacks like this. The amount of public properties Sony hosts internationally is huge -- it would take a long time securing it all.

Re: SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised

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Post by spydum »

marcamillion wrote: post #45

Seems Sony really has kicked up the swarm with that GeoHot clamp down. I am fairly certain that there are some executive meetings that are seriously questioning whether or not that initial action was wise. I never thought this type of extortion could work, but Hot Damn. This is an effective campaign. Talk about relentless! Edit: This is really a losing battle for Sony. They are too big, there are too many vulnerabili…

I didn't see anything being attributed to anonymous here.. just some hackers looking to hop on the bandwagon, stumbling across a very simple vulnerability in one of the many Sony properties.

Re: SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised

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Post by rbanffy »

spydum wrote: post #54
marcamillion wrote: post #45

Seems Sony really has kicked up the swarm with that GeoHot clamp down. I am fairly certain that there are some executive meetings that are seriously questioning whether or not that initial action was wise. I never thought this type of extortion could work, but Hot Damn. This is an effective campaign. Talk about relentless! Edit: This is really a losing battle for Sony. They are too big, there are too many vulnerabili…

I didn't see anything being attributed to anonymous here.. just some hackers looking to hop on the bandwagon, stumbling across a very simple vulnerability in one of the many Sony properties.

But I am quite sure Sony's board knows very well what event started all this.

Re: SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised

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Post by Wickk »

tsuraan wrote: post #20
Joakim wrote: post #14

It is just sad that all these hackers think they're doing everybody a favor by attacking "evil corporations" like Sony. But while they may be right in exposing Sony's lousy security, meanwhile they hurt one million people by releasing their information out into the public in a way that can never be taken back. Unless you think hurting one company you deem bad outweighs hurting a million innocent private citizens, the…

Every Sony customer is an inadvertent supporter of Sony's abuses, and most of them don't care about Sony's morality, they just love the products. If hackers make being a Sony customer unpleasant, then they may be able to hurt Sony's bottom line. It seems far more likely to work than an online petition or boycott...

>If hackers make being a Sony customer unpleasant

Unpleasant is the word your choosing to use? Having my credit card information that links to my bank account, and the only bank account I have, and then having that fucked with is more than unpleasant. I'm thankful when the PSN network was compromised I wasn't one of those people with the claims of large sums of money being circulated out of the bank. ( Yes I know, could easily be coincidental evidence. Not the point. )

By all means the cause is more than plausible with Sony's abysmal track record. The methods are absurd and obnoxious, but by all means keep hiding behind this tired old excuse that the end result is to hurt Sony. The people you're trying to help will have no sympathy when you're caught and sentenced.

Re: SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised

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Post by Splines »

kbatten wrote: post #47
9999 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The public is already predisposed to believing any hacking claims targeted at Sony at the moment. I wouldn't exactly frame their actions as reckless or lacking in logic either. How about malicious? I am particularly put off by this line: "This is disgraceful and insecure: they were asking for it." I get it, they have poor security, as a customer, this makes me really angry. But the general tone there is kind of simil…

This seems more comparable to a bunch of people finally ganging up to beat the shit out of a bully who had a history of treating weaker individuals badly.

More like the bully has someone smaller in a headlock and you light both of them on fire.

Re: SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised

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Post by rbanffy »

I have seen lots of web work for Sony-sized companies being awarded to design-heavy advertising agencies with incompetent backend developers when such work should be undertaken by people skilled in making the plumbing of public-facing, secure and scalable websites. This is the kind of mistake only a junior makes that should never pass the most complacent code-review process.

Like an old friend of mine used to say, "you pay peanuts, you buy monkeys"

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