Anti-Sony Hackers Attacking Employee Families
In a statement published to open-posting site AnonNews, the group accuses Sony of censorship, violating privacy rights, abusing the legal system, and one further rather childishly described metaphorical offense.
"Now you will experience the wrath of Anonymous," threatens the group. "We are Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."
They're not messing around, or at least they claim they're not. It's tough to say whether they've in fact messed with much of anything, but PlayStation LifeStyle claimed yesterday that the group had targeted sites Sony.com and PlayStation.com with denial of service attacks, and that the sites were up but "extremely slow." Other sites essentially piggybacked on that story.
No one's yet verified the extent of the attacks, much less qualified their "success," but yesterday Sony's official Q&A Twitter account noted the PlayStation Network was "undergoing sporadic maintenance" and that "access to the PSN [might] be interrupted throughout the day."
Does that explain my own issues signing into Netflix last night? Who knows, but I had the same problem signing in Sunday night, too--well before any of this was underway. The ghost of hacktivism past, or just the echo chamber?
I support, in principle, the idea that jailbreaking a device like the PlayStation 3 is and ought to remain legal, but the stunts above just seem wrongheaded and juvenile, conflating activism with vandalism, and free speech with sabotage.
It get worse: An even more militantly anti-Sony Anonymous offshoot calling itself "SonyRecon" says it's targeting Sony individuals, unearthing employee personal details, then posting them in public spaces. Some may even be sleuthing for information about employees' children: At one point, a hacker complained "No one found ANY info on Stringers [sic] kids?” (in reference to Howard Stringer, president and CEO of Sony Corporation).
That's more than disturbing, it's reprehensible--a clear example of how not to win friends and influence others, and how to undermine your argument by engaging in cyber-depravity.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/224267/antisony_hackers_attacking_employee_families_and_children.html
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bananapie62Posted:
this is so gay
i do support anonomas to some extent, but only where it affects the people working for sony. i do not support affecting how ppl can get online and i do not support on how they are posting their family's personal info in public places
im expecting them to get sued and thrown in jail
hell i hope when they get thrown in jail, they get stuck with some big fat hary guy so they experiance the worst part of prison evey time they try to sleep/take a crap
revenge FTW
i do support anonomas to some extent, but only where it affects the people working for sony. i do not support affecting how ppl can get online and i do not support on how they are posting their family's personal info in public places
im expecting them to get sued and thrown in jail
hell i hope when they get thrown in jail, they get stuck with some big fat hary guy so they experiance the worst part of prison evey time they try to sleep/take a crap
revenge FTW
RedDotMurdererPosted:
i support these "anonymous" hackers..what they are doing is possibly the BEST idea ever...they support geohot and so do i ....sony definetely went WAAAY to far with geohot..he isnt the only hacker in the world...**** sony
royceunion7Posted:
this is why i bought a xbox. just becuase sony is bad as **** and dont know when to stop jerking off before they end up cumming blood
shooterjoshPosted:
badboy2020 They are taking this to far, they are trying to post personal info on people that are not involved in this lawsuit at all. They are just people that work for the company. Do I think they should be punished for what they did? Yeah sure, but not likes this. I think they have hurt themselves enough. With them being charged with the same exact charges as geohot, and then they are getting into legal issues with the company that produces their blu-ray drives. They tried to play with fire and they burnt themselves. This notorious hacker group is being stupid. Does two wrongs make a right? no not at all, they should keep there business out were its not suppose to be.
but it would be 3 seeing what they did to wanikoko
badboy2020Posted:
They are taking this to far, they are trying to post personal info on people that are not involved in this lawsuit at all. They are just people that work for the company. Do I think they should be punished for what they did? Yeah sure, but not likes this. I think they have hurt themselves enough. With them being charged with the same exact charges as geohot, and then they are getting into legal issues with the company that produces their blu-ray drives. They tried to play with fire and they burnt themselves. This notorious hacker group is being stupid. Does two wrongs make a right? no not at all, they should keep there business out were its not suppose to be.
NetflixPosted:
[Does that explain my own issues signing into Netflix last night?]
AHAHAHA! Netflix strikes once again!
AHAHAHA! Netflix strikes once again!
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