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At 6/12/11 11:14 PM, TheKlown wrote:
anonymous has been making verbal threats towards sony(I think thats illegal on its own merit)

Seriously? Seriously, kid? You think talking is illegal? What country are you from? Singapore?

At 6/12/11 07:38 PM, WeHaveFreshCookies wrote: I like how Sony just decided to blame anonymous, and everybody just rolled with it. I don't think anonymous did it. It doesn't line up with their ideals.

Definitely agree with this. Especially since Sony kept flipping back and forth between saying it wasn't Anonymous, and then suddenly it was when it turned out to be a good scapegoat.

Honestly, I think it's more likely to be small-time underground hackers, using Anonymous as a means to shift the blame. Stealing Credit Card numbers isn't generally Anonymous' style; website defacement and DDoSing is more what they do.

At 6/13/11 10:13 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote: Stealing Credit Card numbers isn't generally Anonymous' style; website defacement and DDoSing is more what they do.

Anonymous can be anyone and everyone. It's not some super secret club of hackers that the media seems to think it is.

They're mostly associated with DDoS attacks because DDoS attacks are easy as shit. When a 15 year old social reject logs on to 4chan, learns how to download a DDoS program, and then reads about something that pisses off the angsty social reject population, they suddenly find their calling.

I think the reason Sony blamed Anonymous was because they found something like "we r legin hrurhur - anonymous" in a file after they got hacked. The fact of the matter is, PSN was horribly, horribly designed. Whoever thought one encryption code was enough to secure vast amounts of personal information is a complete idiot.

Anonymous or not, Sony was lazy as fuck and deserved this.

At 6/10/11 09:46 PM, Matt wrote: BRB gonna hack the pentagon to make all the traffic lights turn green so I can drive around really fast but I gotta remember to burn my computer after I finish up that hack or I might get a speeding ticket.

Hahaha
On topic, it's nice to know that those people got their just deserts.

At 6/13/11 11:18 AM, Rallard wrote:

At 6/13/11 10:13 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote:

Anonymous or not, Sony was lazy as fuck and deserved this.

Putting aside who did what, I disagree entirely with this statement. SONY might have deserved a wake-up call about their laziness with security. But this attack hurt the USERS of Sony, which in turn, hurt Sony. That's another reason why I would argue that Anon is completely innocent here. Anonymous wouldn't hurt the users. They go after the company, to protect the users. That's their mindset, anyway. I wont argue if it's wrong or right, good or bad, or whatever. The point is, the attack hurt Sony by hurting the users. And THAT wasn't called for at all.

At 6/12/11 04:34 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: they will probbably get 10 years at the least and plus european prison? thats like a super 8 motel.

so true...

It pisses me off that they're calling the hacker group "Anonymous" when it was Lulzsec all along. Lulzsec was a malicious hacker group that hacked for fun and the lulz. Anonymous was completely uninvolved with the hacks.

Just because an anonymous internet group of hackers maliciously hacked numerous things for seemingly no reason does not mean that Anonymous did it. God, guys, get it right.