Not a Sony fangirl, not a 360 fangirl, anything can get hacked, period. I've had my identity stolen, but it had squat to do with any gaming account.
To the people saying that Live could be breached like Sony.
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No. Anything can be hacked given time and motivation, and motivation is the only thing hackers lack, if Microsoft ever pisses off the right people, this could happen to them.SlasherX said:
Looks like you're refusing to take the high road, which is a bad thing when trying to make your point sound more valid that someone else's.RanD00M said:
Same as above, just with more irony.alrekr said:
I'm sorry but i can't help but to reply to a post like yours.Kune35 said:
You must have no idea of sony's security saying it lacks basic stuff like a firewall.. how is it they mentioned they were going to implement an extra firewall now that the otherS had been breached? You seem to not even think twice about what you posted, but it's okay. Just wanted to point out that Sony, dispite what people are saying, was not all that incompetent. They did go around bragging about their security but they should've known any system would get hacked.
OT: Both systems have good security, Sony was just the one to fall first.
No system invented in this year will not be hacked in the next 10 years. By then we will have so many tools at our disposal that people learning code would maybe be able to hack our times XBL for testing.
Get out newfa-... newfriend, your attempts to troll will not work here. 0/10disturbed_one said:Y U MAD BRO?
It seems to me like you're some sort of an Xbox fan. But have you noticed that Sony is also a big corporation. Money doesn't matter really, it's who hackers are annoyed with, or if there is some sort of long term goal for them. Maybe it was Microsoft who paid hackers to do that(because I seriously doubt anyone in m$ would know how to do that). There is a lot we don't know, corporate espionage and stuff like that. Who knows what's really happening behind the scenes, and who can profit from the whole situation. And maybe it's just those guys from /b/...
I disagree. Anything can be hacked, it's just a matter of Sony pissing off the right person or someone wanting to prove something- who knows. I agree that Xbox is probably more secure. But then again, holy shit, Sony was running PSN on outdated Apache versions and kept customer/client info on plain txt files. It's less of a matter that it's amazing that someone pulled this off but that Sony was careless and was probably asking to be hacked or some kind of logic.
If someone wanted to be a dick and bring down XBL, I do think it could be done- it just wouldn't be as easy
If someone wanted to be a dick and bring down XBL, I do think it could be done- it just wouldn't be as easy
This mindset is why the PSN was hacked.SlasherX said:
Microsoft's assets were roughly $86 billion as of 2010, Sony's assets were roughly $136 billion as of 2009.
First, the personal wealth of Bill Gates has nothing to do with the finances of Microsoft. Second, Gates stepped down as primary manager of Microsoft in 2006, handing his duties as Chief Strategy Officer over to Craig Mundie, and his position as Chief Software Architect to Ray Ozzie, the transition for which was finalized in 2008. He hasn't been CEO since 2000, where he handed that over to Steve Ballmer.
Unless you worked within Sony, you weren't hearing that their servers were insecure until after the hack had occurred (at which point you could just assume they were insecure).
Do you know how many personnel are dedicated to serving XBL / PSN? Any idea? General number? Anything. Do you have any even tangential proof of this, or is it just an assumption on your part?
PS: I don't own a PS3. I'm xbox-only.
If sony were really that insecure, they'd have been hacked before. They were some REALLY good hackers.
While the 2000 incident is pretty solid evidence, the hacked points incident does not support your statement. As the article you linked said, Microsoft was on to them within hours. While there were millions of dollars of losses, it obviously did not sink the company.ShakesZX said:
There is no such thing as a foolproof security system (Except for TNT boobytraps in Minecraft). So instead of being just the least vulnerable, it comes down to the person who's least vulerable (Live), quickest to respond (Live), and most competent (After the PSN incident, this goes to Live), is the one who one day rules the world.
Sony's 2009 financial records statment:Ceroxis said:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/08q4_sony.pdf
Microsoft similarly publishes their annual financial statement, as per US law.
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar10/
[edit] Removed redundant redundancy.
That's a ridiculous statement, because anything can be hacked with enough patience, and finding the right loopholes.SlasherX said:
Also, Microsoft's track record is hardly brilliant. The frequency with which patches are released for windows which start with the words 'A security vulnerability was found in [insert microsoft product name here] that allows a hacker to take remote control of a compromised system" is far too frequent to believe microsoft is invulnerable to hacking.
Chances are there are more than enough security holes in Xbox live for a determined hacker to be able to compromise the system, but hopefully Microsoft's overall security setup isn't as naive as Sony's seemed to be.
General Custard
Napoleon
The Titanic
The Third Reich
Really I could go on and on. My point is that history is full of people and things that were supposedly unstoppable. People who were subsequently proven wrong. The only lesson we can glean for all of this is that regardless either through shitty luck or pissing off enough of the right people or a combination off both, you will eventually go down.
I think the most telling thing of all is how Microsoft isn't running it's mouth off. I have yet to read a press release from them stating that this could never happen to them. You know why that is? Its cause they aren't stupid they understand the gravity of the situation and the long lasting effect it will have on the industry as a whole.
No one is coming out of this unscathed.
Napoleon
The Titanic
The Third Reich
Really I could go on and on. My point is that history is full of people and things that were supposedly unstoppable. People who were subsequently proven wrong. The only lesson we can glean for all of this is that regardless either through shitty luck or pissing off enough of the right people or a combination off both, you will eventually go down.
I think the most telling thing of all is how Microsoft isn't running it's mouth off. I have yet to read a press release from them stating that this could never happen to them. You know why that is? Its cause they aren't stupid they understand the gravity of the situation and the long lasting effect it will have on the industry as a whole.
No one is coming out of this unscathed.