Today was a very weird day. My friend’s son was reading Gameinformer in the backseat of the car after he was picked up from school by my friend. I was in the passenger seat. The son was reading a monthly featurette that is in the magazine on page 19 called, “the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: news with a sarcastic spin.” He was reading the most recent issue that is currently out right now; issue 218, June 2011. It is the issue with characters from the new “Assassin’s Creed: Revelations” game on the front and back cover. He was shocked to find out the actual cause of the Playstation Network outage. He told me it was a group called, “Anonymous.”
I was shocked to hear that as well, because I actually knew the truth and it was not really that hacker group. He passed me the magazine and asked me to read the “Ugly” section. Here is what I read:
“Hacker collective Anonymous has brought down the entire Playstation Network and its Qriocity music service – and it’s still down at the time of this writing. After an open call to hackers to attack the service because it disagrees with the fact that Sony is legally pursuing anyone who runs their own programs on the now-hackable Playstation 3, PSN went down. In response, Sony says it’s keeping the service turned off until it can implement unspecified security measures.”
This newsbyte was truly ugly in itself. That is exactly what did NOT happen. If anyone pays attention to the official Sony PSN press releases on the Playstation Blog at http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/22/update-on-playstation-network-qriocity-services/ ; one would find out that the massive outage was caused by Sony themselves, NOT hackers! They discovered an intrusion and decided to completely “turn off” everything related to PSN. I don’t think Sony is “legally pursuing anyone who runs their own programs on the now-hackable Playstation 3.” Sony is legally pursuing anyone involved in Playstation Piracy, a.k.a. PP, and they actively pursued the Hardware genius named, Geohotz, the original “jailbreaker” of the PS3. The Geohotz case was settled out of court and disallowed Geohotz from hacking any future or present Sony products and releasing the information. I really do not think Sony is actively searching the internet for would-be home-brewers and bringing them to court. The only thing true in the 3 sentences the author of the article wrote (in which the actual name of the author is so conveniently left out), is the fact that Sony kept the service off to implement improved security measures.
The secret society that is, “Anonymous,” did not make an open call to hackers. They made a list of demands and threats on youtube.com.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVQaazo16Y&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSiK35dCRgM&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JS9lDj6EaY[/youtube]
They didn’t even make any threats to the actual Sony PSN login servers too. They believe that Sony is infringing upon the rights and civil liberties of more than just the people involved in the Geohotz case, but others outside of the case, by collecting tracking information and IP addresses of anyone who visited his site and related videos on youtube.com. If you look at the press release that Anonymous made earlier, when the PSN was down and no one knew why, they actively stated, “For once we didn’t do it” The link can be found here: Anon_News_NOT_US.
Anonymous is a type of group that says what they have done and done what they have said. They are a group of elite hacker geniuses and will not allow disinformation about their group to spread rapidly. For about 3 days, Sony allowed the general sheeple PSN fanboy public to do this very act and allowed them to make prejudicial, stereotyped uninformed decisions and opinions on their own without any valid research. A local GameStop (notice the affiliation with Gameinformer) manager *baaa* was even brainwashed; which was ever shocking! GameStop employees always have the correct information and are always right…*cough cough* *shouts, “bullshit” while sneezing at the same time* The manager told me, “if I saw those hackers, I would straight punch them in the face!” in a geeky, glasses wearing Mr. McFroodle type voice. He must have been reading GameMisInformer!
The problem here is a severe case of bad misinformation. The author pulled trigger before the gun was loaded. He or she jumped on this made up story like ants to pancakes with syrup all over and made the same mistake the GameStop manager did. Then again when you think about, when you have 2 fruits from the same poisoned tree, you will end up with 2 contaminated stories. I understand that the column is supposed to have a “sarcastic spin”, but you still have to tell the truth. Gameinformer is considered a major publication. It is sold at several newsstands, electronic stores, and other venues and is distributed regularly to possibly thousands of people through their subscription plans. I believe that they should have responsibility for what they stated and that this can be a form of libel. If you notice the author purposely forgets to put down the actual date of the writing also. They should at least make a correction for this in their next issue or on their website (you cannot currently access this column on their website, for they purposely keep their magazine and internet content separate) because certainly at this time, the author turned into Peter Pan and thought he was in Never Never Land, because he or she certainly used his imagination to write this story.
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One thing I can not stand about magazine print news when it comes to games, is how they are always late to the party. Stuff that you find out a month beforehand they are just getting out. If anything, people use the internet more to get up to date news. As far as the Anonymous thing, I’m past that now. Really don’t care. E3 is around the corner, more important news is coming out of that.
Dude, how many tags did you add? Jesus! LOL Also, this doesn’t belong in X-rumors or rumors.
he fucking tagged peter pan… LMFAO
Smh… Thor and Tron as well.
They still have a responsibility, even though the news is late. They could have waited to see more about the truth, instead they printed what went on in their imagination. Some of the news in major print magazines can be good though, because they have fatter pockets and have easier, more exclusive access to in depth information about a particular game. I learned about L.A. Noir and it’s new tech almost a year before it came out through reading print mags. This was something that was not on the internet at the time. It’s sort of a Yin Yang balance.
Great…. Another PSN-down related article…. These are awesome. –Persistantthug
shaz, do you realize by the very nature of anonymous they can’t claim not being a part of the problem? there is no hierarchy to anonymous, and there is a group within anonymous that did claim responsibility.
i agree with da_dios 100%… its sad and ironic that you titled this article with “Misinformed” because you are clearly either misinformed or trying to misinform others. i believe you really believe what you wrote here but its is just “Misinformed”
Clearly both of you have become the “sheeple” I do so loudly speak against in this article. You guys get fed information and take that as such without any logic behind it. You guys do not see that this is corporate propaganda at its finest. You guys are such Sony fanboys that you take an extra 20 min at the beginning of your last 2 “TECH” podcasts to talk about this gaming crap. Both of you missed the point completely. If you look at the article, I am trying to point out that Gamemisinformer made a wrong statement. Not once in the article did I say anything about Anonymous not being responsible for the initial intrusion. No one knows who is responsible, so I cannot say Anonymous or even Dirty’s grandma is the cause! I laid out the facts on both sides, Anonymous and Sony/Gameinformer. I simply re-stated what they both said. How do you know if there was an actual DDOS attack on PSN itself? There may have been an attack on the playstation site itself (which is separate from the PSN login servers), because I did notice the playstation site was down when I attempted to look at it at the beginning of this fiasco, but I or you guys do NOT have any definitive proof that there was an actual DDOS attack on the playstion site itself. If you listen carefully to the podcast that Tor and I did (http://www.thebitbag.com/2011/04/28/my-name-is-mudd-psn-of-a-down/ ) , the CSR clearly stated that Sony brought their network down. For a major publication to state that it was Anonymous that “brought down” PSN AND Qriocity without any definitive proof or real press relases ( because if you remember Sony purposely played hush hush at the beginning of this for like 3 days without an official press release) is highly irresponsible. “While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves;” there is still no proof it is them. If a DDOS attack occurred, how do you know it wasn’t a single person (a script kiddie maybe) controlling the botnet that caused the Denial Of Service. Botnets can be as large as 500,000 machines or more! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet It can also be possible that a single person can control these machines and give them commands. And how exactly are you “in the “Know” of how the Ops work within anonymous “? Are you part of Anonymous? Do you guys frequent their private IRC chat rooms? What group within Anonymous “did claim responsibility”? How do you know about the “#OPSONY IRC channel”? Should Tor be in fear of a future DDOS attack against the Bitbag? Just because Sony finds a file named “Anonymous” and has the words “We are legion” in it, does NOT make the attack legitimately from them. When IDS machines find intrusions from Chinese IP’s, does that make it mean that the attackers are from China…NO! I know people who have used filenames like “chicknMcnuggets” or “Ritz”! Does that mean that McDonalds or Nabisco is directly involved in those intrusions…NO! Sony should be ashamed of this shite! You guys just drink their KOOL-AID as if Sony was Jim Jones himself and the PSN was freaking JONESTOWN! You guys speak as if that Sony is the victim! Anyone with a PSN account is the true victim here! This is an excellent example of corporate Spin Doctoring. I really hope that one you will be directly affected by this crap, because when you ask for help from Sony, they will give the fat middle finger. Then your naive infatuation with Sony will end. Sony’s middle finger /” |./| | | | | |>~<| | | /'| |/'.. /~| | | | | =[@]= | | | | | | | | ~ ~ ~ ~ |` ) | / / / _____ / |–//''`–| | (( +==)) | |–_|_//–| OPEN UP YOUR EARS, JACKASS! Open up your mind as well. Condescending attitudes will prevent you from growing your brain. We are here to make sure that Bitbaggers do not become sheeple. Learning is something that occurs forever and no one person can know everything. We must teach and learn from each other as well as ourselves.
I should call you two Gamestop Employees or GE. No…you guys should be called the GE managers!
How do you put a secret society in jail? You can’t look at someone and immediately tell that they are a hacker. Same goes with any other group. Can you look at a man and tell if he is a freemason or not? No.
Well Sony already knows that it was one person who was responsible for the intrusion into their network. You can’t arrest everyone in Anonymous (sadly) but it would be nice if they got the son of a whore that did. If I remember correctly you had just gotten a PS3 when this bullshit happened. I don’t see why you are defending these assholes.
Well Sony already knows that it was one person who was responsible for the intrusion into their network. You can’t arrest everyone in Anonymous (sadly) but it would be nice if they got the son of a whore that did. If I remember correctly you had just gotten a PS3 when this bullshit happened. I don’t see why you are defending these assholes.
I don’t see why anyone would catch a titty fit, button line no one is right here. Its all speculation. If you go by the word of Anon then they didn’t do it. If you go by the conspiracy theory then you believe they infect had something to do with it. Intresting but not really worth a argument since there is no real way to prove either point factually.