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Just feel bad for the gamers who have been robbed and/or affected. *hangs head*.

Could have been worse:

In reference to www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13231307:

Sony has revealed that credit card details held on its PlayStation Network were stored in securely encrypted files.

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In reply to a post by Guest_Again:

Just feel bad for the gamers who have been robbed and/or affected. *hangs head*.

Could have been worse:

In reference to www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13231307:

Sony has revealed that credit card details held on its PlayStation Network were stored in securely encrypted files.

I assume they are referring to this reasoning then...

Essentially, this amounts to a storm in a teacup. If you just want to use your PS3 to play games and buy stuff on the PlayStation Store and have never installed a custom firmware then your credit card details are as safe and secure as they are when you shop online on your PC.

If you want to use custom firmware and tinker with your PS3 then you shouldn't put your credit card details into your system, but then you're unlikely to anyway.

And if the hacker/s were protesting about the action Sony are planning for users who have jacked their PS3's, then surely they should have nothing to worry about either?

They were just making a point don't you know?


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So they say...

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by Guest_Again:

Just feel bad for the gamers who have been robbed and/or affected. *hangs head*.

Could have been worse:

In reference to www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13231307:

Sony has revealed that credit card details held on its PlayStation Network were stored in securely encrypted files.

It was just mentioned on Watchdog too.

I'm not going to buy a 360

They really have brought this upon themselves, the sheer arrogance and heavy handed approach to users who wanted to use other Os, the pompous statements the uncrackable machine. They were just one big target. Sony rattled the nest and got stung!

On the other hand look at Microsoft, quietly except the cracking of kinnect to the point of embracing people who can. Also they dealt with Piracy the right way.

I don�t condone Piracy there is no excuse and is driven by greed, however once we buy a product, surely we are able do what we like, as long we don�t do the pre-mentioned or cause any losses to others.

Edited by NilSatisOptimum (Fri 29-Apr-11 13:15:54)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13819...

Right at the bottom

They would have brought it back on Monday but it's a bank holiday

........however once we buy a product, surely we are able do what we like, as long we don�t do the pre-mentioned or cause any losses to others.

That's fair enough, but also probably very much the point. You should be able to do exactly as you please with it, as long as you accept the warranty implications that all manufacturers normally hit you with.

To be fair to Sony that is a very difficult thing to police effectively, but still no excuse for the draconian measures they were attempting to take that started this whole rigmarole in the first place.

Looking at instructions on a website on how to break the rules is not the same as actually going through with it. The backlash was probably inevitable.

Sony are primarily working from japan (where firmwares come from) and US (where infrastructure and back end is mostly setup), SCEE's limitedly involved, they just look after their part of the online services. I doubt bank holiday has anything to do with it.

I don't believe that that custom firmware had anything to do with it, sure if its claims are true it allowed downloading of PSN content without payment, thats not the same as someone ransacking their infrastructure to the extent they don't know what else was downloaded/accessed.

It doesn't add up, what was done to sony was done by EXPERIENCED people, i would tip more towards russians/chinese with financial motive in mind.