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Sony CEO Howard Stringer: Month-long Hackathon Merely A 'Hiccup'
from the sony-shouldn't-be-left-in-charge-of-your-metaphors-much-less-your-personal-i dept
As we've all seen over the last thirty days or so, Sony has handled their month-long data breach/pwnage with all the grace and humility that one expects from an out-of-touch megacorporation. Between dismissing the breach as "harmless" and fingering the ever-popular "Anonymous" for all the trouble, Sony has managed to stay at least one step behind their attackers the whole way. To add insult to injurious class action lawsuit, it emerged from the 30-day hackout bruised, bleeding and completely unable to go back online in its own country.
CEO Howard Stringer apparently has come to the conclusion that there's still plenty of room for more foot in Sony's mouth, dismissing the longest outage by any console maker as merely a "hiccup in the road to a network future."
Now, I don't want to presume to speak for everybody, but generally when I have the hiccups (inside or outside of the road), it tends to leave the nearest 77 million people unaffected. Sure, I may get some random advice (drink a glass of water/hold your breath/salt your passwords), but otherwise life goes on and I'm the only one bothered by it. Plus, these hiccup attacks never run more than 10-12 days at the most and only rarely do I lay the blame at the feet of unrelated hacking entities.
Thank you, Howard, for clearing that up. I'll be sure to dismiss any unknown charges to my credit cards as mere "hiccups in the road to financial instability" and when my linked email account becomes a spam-spewing zombie, I'll just hold my breath until it all goes away.
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Don't taunt hackers...
1) Never hit a beehive.
2) Never wave fresh meat in front of a bear.
3) Never say that a hacker attack is "Harmless".
All 3 will get you in a load of hurt.
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Re: Don't taunt hackers...
Don't spit into the wind.
Don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger.
Don't mess around with Tim.
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Merely a hiccup...
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Hiccup attack
http://sony.nyleveia.com/2011/05/17/warning-all-psn-users-your-accounts-are-still-not-safe/
There are a series of updates there relating progress.
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I laughed.
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Back on track...
I laughed at the "salt your passwords" advice.
I'll see how this works the next time someone gets them.
:)
As for Sony's issues: doesn't matter. According to NPD, people are still buying their products.
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Hiccup?
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Uninformed masses. Typical.
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You're goddamn right....
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Friends don't let friends buy Sony
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It would be funny if hackers went in and changed everyones e-mail addresses using the stolen data.
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I just read this it's down again.
Because the information originally compromised was needed to restore access.
I'll repeat this because it truly does suck, but it's damn sickening to see a once FANTASTIC company like this go down in flames from its own stupid mistakes.
I have to admit their products were awesome (and probably still are) but no way in hell will I buy one in exchange for their recent actions, which started with a damn rootkit file.
No way.
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Humility
We are being attacked by some amazingly skilled hackers. We can't touch them. I hope that we can figure out who they are, just so we can give them jobs securing our network. We were a very technologically advanced company in the 80's, but now we are just a bunch of inept empty suits.
Hackers, please don't hurt us!
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http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/outsourcing-sony-design-bravia-201104291133.htm
and has anyone actually looked at the tv part of sony's google tv? its absolutely awful
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"Made In Japan" isn't something I see stamped on anything imported from Japan anymore.
I'm more than used to it. It's like "Made in USA", where the "made" only means "A company, based in the US, imported and taped the box shut".
Not that this is a bad thing.
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"This story's headline is completely inaccurate. What's been taken down is several website login pages that use PSN accounts, such as Qrocity.com."
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/18/psn-logins-exploited-again-sony-takes-sign-in-pages-offlin e/
http://sony.nyleveia.com/2011/05/17/warning-all-psn-users-your-accounts-are-still-not-safe/
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It would be ironic if the people responsible used the credit card information to purchase boatloads of Sony products.
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Stored BASE64 -- Check
Credit card numbers were encrypted -- Check
Seriously:
1. Believe NONE of Sony's claims unless verified by an independent (preferably hostile) third party.
2. Encryption is tricky to get right and incredibly easy to do wrong, even by security professionals.
3. If you know what the encrypted data are supposed to contain (general format and/or specific text), any encryption method could probably be attacked with much less effort and much greater likelihood of success.
4. "But it was encrypted" sounds nice. Replace that with "They stole our safe with everything in it, but don't worry, we think it is a really strong safe with a good lock" and see how that sounds. Especially if it is *your* money and reputation locked in there.
5. The "but it was encrypted" defense is probably just another damage control dodge to avoid specifically notifying millions of customers until the encryption is proven to be weak or worthless.
NMM
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Just [TAB] instead of [ENTER]. An old boss of mine used to use the space bar instead of enter for selecting things too, so he would tab around all over the page until he got to the submit button and then press space....because far too often the enter key doesn't give you the desired response...
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