PSN Down, Microsoft is happy.

[copthesaint]

PSN has been down for a while now, features of PSN were first disabled this last Wednesday, and all Im thinking is: 'This must be Microsoft's hackers ****** with PSN' . How else would it just happen to be on the long weekend lol. So much for COD or MODWF or KZ3 lol... Yes I am blaming Microsoft for this . Thoughts?

[ProgrammingFun]

I believe that it would be those loyal to GeoHot, conveying their anger to Sony by crippling the primary means that they use to convince ppl not to jailbreak. The Anonymous hacking group already claimed responsibility for the attack...and they are fans of the jailbreak world.

But to conclude....this is just another reason why PC gaming is the best

[mirhagk]

ProgrammingFun @ Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:32 pm wrote:

But to conclude....this is just another reason why PC gaming is the best

Except hackers flood to PC games, network manipulation is easy there, and client side code can be altered to reload faster etc, very easily. Even small things, were people hack and give themselves a map with everyone on it. Also while the mouse may be superior to the thumbstick, the thumbstick is definetly superior to WASD.

Sorry lol just wanted to troll about controls.
But seriously, if you see this stuff with closed systems, where users cannot easily download and install software, and where networking data is hidden and super encrypted, imagine how easy it is to hack PC games.

And I lol at these hackers taking PSN down, like that is an accomplishment and a half. (I wonder what sony will do to apologize, I know microsoft gave out free live for a month to people who complained cuz their live went down for 24 hours or w/e)

[ProgrammingFun]

mirhagk @ Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:09 pm wrote:

Except hackers flood to PC games, network manipulation is easy there, and client side code can be altered to reload faster etc, very easily. Even small things, were people hack and give themselves a map with everyone on it.

That is why there are services such as PunkBuster, Steam, etc... Although client code can be hacked, it can also be easily detected...

mirhagk @ Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:09 pm wrote:

Also while the mouse may be superior to the thumbstick, the thumbstick is definetly superior to WASD.

Meh, there is always Shift/Ctrl among other things...
And guess what other controllers PC has:

Xbox 360 Controller (Official)
Microsoft Kinect (Official)
PS3 Controller (unOfficial?)
PS Move (Official)

...I don't see any console with that many possible controllers...and all of them are 3rd gen!

mirhagk @ Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:09 pm wrote:

And I lol at these hackers taking PSN down, like that is an accomplishment and a half. (I wonder what sony will do to apologize, I know microsoft gave out free live for a month to people who complained cuz their live went down for 24 hours or w/e)

Accomplishment Unlocked!
I'm guessing one of the following:

A free PlayStation Mini that was slated to become free anyways
Free PS Plus membership for a month (maybe year?)
An Apology (maybe with something else?)

[mirhagk]

What is PS plus, sorry I don't use PS3. Oh and when did kinect become official, apparently I've been living under a rock for like a year

[ProgrammingFun]

PlayStaion Plus: http://us.playstation.com/psn/playstation-plus/

Kinect (and there are always hacks too ): http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/13/microsoft-details-kinect-sdk-for-windows-pc-promises-robust-sk/

[mirhagk]

Okay it's not out yet tho, cuz I want to be there first day, using the awesome new technology, def gonna try to code a program to navigate the web using kinect.

Can someone email me if it ever gets released? mirhagk@gmail.com

[ProgrammingFun]

Apparently, Win8 will have Kinect integrated because hackers found its dlls in a leaked version of the OS.
I'll email u if I remember...or maybe I might just post it in the shoutbox

[Helldemon80]

ProgrammingFun @ Sun 24 Apr, 2011 4:32 pm wrote:

The Anonymous hacking group already claimed responsibility for the attack...and they are fans of the jailbreak world.
But to conclude....this is just another reason why PC gaming is the best

Anonymous didn't claim responsibility for the attack....they actually claimed the complete opposite. This is actually from their channel on YouTube and I found an article from them saying the same thing.

http://bit.ly/gqV2Hm

Btw It's been down for a long time because their fixing the infrastructure right now.

LOL, but It's quite hilarious to watch people squirm when they have nothing to do now. On a good note, I don't have a PS3, I have an Xbox. But It was really nice outside (at least for me) for the past days so there was really no need to whine for some people.....(even if the weather wasn't good, you still can do other things).

[mirhagk]

But the thing is that the more you learn about programming, the more allergic you get to the sun. Those who have learned functional languages, or something like brainf*** live in constant fear of the big yellow beast.

[ProgrammingFun]

Helldemon80 @ Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:31 pm wrote:

Anonymous didn't claim responsibility for the attack....they actually claimed the complete opposite. This is actually from their channel on YouTube and I found an article from them saying the same thing.

I was talking about the first, it was after 2 attacks that SONY finally decided to try and fix something:

Engadget @ http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/23/playstation-network-outage-blamed-on-external-intrusion-conti/ wrote:

The current downtime for PSN is the second of its kind this month, with the Anonymous group of online crusaders claiming responsibility for the first. Sony now intends to keep both PSN and its Qriocity music streaming service offline until it can pinpoint the vulnerability that has been exploited and put a stop to it.

EDIT: Sony doesn't even know it private information was stolen...yet

[copthesaint]

ProgrammingFun @ Mon Apr 25, 2011 wrote:

EDIT: Sony doesn't even know it private information was stolen...yet

They are sure. There is a mod out right now that allows you to 'apparently' make yourself kinda like a tester to the psn. everything on psn network could be downloaded for free and charged to a fake credit card. This mod also lets you exploit all net features. They are fixing psn because of hackers. Im not sure if this is the only thing they are working on though.

EDIT: btw Portal 2 > all games right now. AND portal > ps3 PS3: 1, 360: 0. jk

[rdrake]

Official update: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/26/update-on-playstation-network-and-qriocity/

This little gem sticks out:

LOL wrote:

lthough we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.

They weren't kidding, it really does do everything.

[Helldemon80]

Hahaha, although they said that credit card information "may been stolen", for some people it already was, as there have been people on PSN claiming unauthorized transactions on their credit cards. So if your on PSN....

WATCH OUT

[ProgrammingFun]

Another fail...further proving that PC > All Consoles

Gizmodo @ http://gizmodo.com/#!5796151/now-microsoft-is-issuing-security-warnings wrote:

Sony has a little trouble with its online security, and now Microsoft is issuing warnings about people running "phishing" scams over Xbox Live.