drowboy said:
No one is arguing that Sony dropped the ball, but if you go to the website they have promised that they are giving complimentary Identity Protection services and help to psn members as compensation in the from of free Playstation plus/qrocity services for 1 month plus however long the network is down. This is them saying OK we're sorry, now we'll fix it and here's something for the inconvenience. As long as them admit guilt and cover for any losses due to this issue I feel that they should be forgiven for their mistakes.
Oh, sure, it's nice that they promise to better themselves, abd they shouldn't be sued from here to no tomorrow for being the victim of a crime, but, and that's what bugs me, the gearbox guy seems to want all the people to forgive Sony and put no blame at their feet. At least that's how it comes across to me.
And I believe their promise to better themselves in terms of data security when they have implemented said better security and have had a complete audit of the system by independent experts that go on record and say: "This time, they've done everything possible."
After all, they promised to keep your data secure when you first gave it to them, so another promise of "yeah, this time, for real" does not hold much water, for me at least.
And as for the gearbox guys motives: Gearbox has games on the PS3, right? Ones that use PSN? (I really don't know...) So if that's true, well, he's loosing sales for every customer that drops off Sonys monolith, so there's one motivation.
Another one is liability shift for DRM-caused catastrophes. After all, when the next DRM fiasco hits, one can always blame someone else and point to the Sony case and say: "Hey, we're the victim here. If everything went as we wished it, our system would have been perfect."
Granted, that works only for f***ups that weren't self-inflicted, but still.
See the flak Capcom is currently getting for their Always-On-DRM in the aftermath of the PSN desaster.
Also:
Daveman said:
So Sony baked you a lovely pie and left it on the windowsill to cool. Then some hackers come and steal the pie. Then your natural response is to bitchslap Sony for leaving the pie on the windowsill. You don't care about the fact that somebody stole your pie because you don't know who did it so it's hard to blame them, so you just take all your rage out on Sony.
Well, if all of your neighbors' pies got stolen during the last weeks, you'd get RIGHTLY blamed for not at least have an eye on the pie, wouldn't you?
In a perfect world, noone would steal, so nothing would have to be guarded. But it's more than common knowledge that we don't live in such a world, and a lapse in security coming from the same guys that have a fear of theft that is borderline paranoid at times is rather hypocritical, isn't it?
The Same Guy said:
But yeah, sure Sony has pissed off some people and sure their security wasn't perfect but surely you guys remember that story of that one British guy who hacked the fucking PENTAGON for kicks, hardly anything is impenetrable. It's annoying but tbh they're suffering just as much as you are and they've already agreed to reimburse anyone whose financial details are used. What more do you want from them?
And that's exactly what I mean. One single guy can hack the pentagon. And this is commonly known. Then WHY hasn't Sony protected the data better? Granted, nothing is safe, but one can at least make the best effort to approximate absolute safety that is possible. Which Sony clearly did not do.
(Quick aside: I damn sure hope someone other than Sony is the next victim, with comparable circumstances, so it doesn't seem that I harp on Sony that much. But being an IT professional it bugs me every day when I see security sacrificed for money. And it happens all too often...)
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