Good, buy a gaming pc instead ;D

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.

But after all the initial hype has died down, the banks and FAA are advising people of no need to cancel cards and that all data stored was correctly encrypted?

Fraud on this scale would be very easy to track down. I doubt the Chinese or Russians would want make 70 million transactions of 10 quid each in online stores and have them delivered to 70 million different addresses.

Making large transactions on those scales would surely be impossible to hide?

And selling the information to so many different sources would be equally difficult?

When the network is back I will change my passwords and monitor my credit card bill. I'm certainly not scrapping all my credit cards and waiting weeks for new ones, based on conspiracy theories.

Hopefully not famous last words!

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"Sony said it expects to have some services back up by next Tuesday, though it added it will only restore operations if it is confident that the network is secure."

Aye, HEARD IT, MATE!

Information is a commodity, peoples info has probably been traded all around the world 10 times over by now. They can make an awful lot off just that, there are entire markets setup just for selling phishing kits and various scams and such, there was a nice report on the bbc site a year or two back about these kind of markets.

There is also a mix up between what Sony is saying about encryption + CVV codes, because quite a few bits of proof showing sony did take the CVV's, if they did and that encryption is broken then people are screwed. Sony isn't saying how their info was encrypted for all we know their version of encryption is a passworded zip file.

I would still be very cautious over the card info, at the least monitoring them.

I would still be very cautious over the card info, at the least monitoring them.

Agreed there. And there's still the password issue. If it wasn't so serious it would be funny to watch what happens when 70 million users try to change it during Tuesday.

That's if they manage it by then. I'm not too hopeful to be honest.

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I suspect sony will rush the return of PSN, which will cause tons of instability down the line. I'd be cautious of its return.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/29/sony_playsta...

Edited to add:.
...And it just shows you yet another reason why I do not allow even my PC to auto-update etc.

*Guesty shows that even if you ARE paranoid, that it doesn't mean that they are not going to get you...

Edited by Guest_Again (Today at 12:03:15)

Edited by deleted (Sat 30-Apr-11 12:07:00)

In reply to a post by FireFalcon:

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 was joking about the bank holiday thing

Wish I could afford one :/