Daily Sony Hacking Occurs On Schedule

jjp9999 writes "LulzSec was compromised and a member of the group, Robert Cavanaugh, was arrested by the FBI on June 6. Meanwhile, LulzSec hacked Sony again, this time leaking the Sony Developer Network source code through file sharing websites."

Sounds like they're got inside access

[GodfatherofSoul]

Not a network guy, but if they're repeating these hacks so quickly and with such regularity I imagine their backdoor is still up.

Re:Arrested

[Delgul]

Might be they arrested one of the seven proxies? ;-)

Re:Bad Porn

[Gravatron]

Sony isn't just one company, it's more like a holding group. The different parts rarely seem to talk to each other, and most likely have no centralized network authority. Saying 'Sony was hacked again' isn't really accurate, it's 'a division/company belonging to the sony group was hacked'. I don't believe they have been successful in hitting the same target twice.

Re:Go FBI!

[h4rr4r]

And, hey, maybe they'll put up such a good defence that the jury will refuse to convict them and the balance of power between corporations and common people will be shifted, and that would probably be good too. But it should be done in courts or congress, not by vigilante mobs deciding to lynch a corporation that offended them.

Does it hurt to be that naive?

Sure they are breaking the law, and they are probably bad people, but this is like watching Stalin fight Hitler. No matter who loses we win. In reality since they attacked Sony expect jail sentences, had they gone after a small company the FBI would not even care.

Re:Sounds like they're got inside access

[tripleevenfall]

Well, no, I think this is one of the few times that the "terrorists", so to speak, actually won.

LulzSec said they would do this as revenge for Sony taking legal action against someone for jailbreaking the PS3. LulzSec has successfully cost Sony far, far more than jailbreaking ever would have.

Nope, Safety is a Myth

[IBitOBear]

Just like the TSA hasn't stopped a single act of terror, only passengers have done that; most security measures cannot stop a determined professional.

Safety and Security are largely mythological, the concepts are sold to a public that feels the need to exist with impunity.

In point of fact, it is largely manners that keeps people safe and secure. Most of us do not act on our darker natures because it would be rude.

Sony has demonstrated that they don't care about being well-mannered, and that they honestly believe that technology can keep them safe. They believe in DRM and they believe that they have the right to change a deal they have already made as if they were Darth Vader. They believe in their own Empire and they are willing to use any means necessary to maintain their grasp.

In point of fact, the technological community is simply having a very high immune response to this bad actor in their midst.

If Sony were to just come out, apologize for being douche-bags and promise never to do it again, they attacks would taper off quickly. They don't even have to mean it.

For all that the *IAA have been idiots and evil, they didn't mess with the technologists as a whole, so they have gotten a pass so far. They also don't actually do anything, so they have been impossible to strike.

Sony, as a member of *IAA(s) _and_ as a first person actor in technology via the PS3 etc, _and_ having stepped far across the line with the Hotz thing, has simply taken the first hit of lightning.

Thing is, the community at large has now learned that they _can_ make a company pay. The frontier has been opened. The Streisand Effect is real, and it will, sadly, take the business world a little longer to learn that "The Angry Villagers Rule" is real as well.

The torches are alight and the pitchforks are out and waving.

In the technological circles, the technologists are peasants, but they do feed the nation and they do strike back.

Companies need to rediscover their manners.

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Re:Sounds like they're got inside access

[commandermonkey]

One of the few times? Seriously??

Can you name one "terrorist" attack that hasn't been severly one sided in terms of cost?

• Oklahoma city - for less than $5k there was 82.5Million in investigative cost alone
• 9/11 -4 Planes, Several buildings, more expensive airport security, loss of jobs, etc have been estimated at over 2 trillion. +10 years of expensive war in Afghanistan
• Anthrax Attacks - for the cost of 7 letters we got a clean up that the FBI put over 1billion and the war in Iraq
• Liquid bombers - didn't even happen and we got more security theater and still have restrictions on liquids
• Times square bomber - unsuccessful attack that got politically elites talking about suspending Miranda
• Underwear bomb - Super expensive scanners and more security theater.

Seriously, what "terrorist" attack in the last 10 years were you thinking of that hasn't caused a serous disproportionate response? Why do you think there seem to be more attacks in the last few years? For every couple thousand spent blowing, or attempting to blow, something up we spend hundreds or millions/billions/trillions reacting to it and every few large attacks causes the US to give away more of the "freedom(s)" that the terrorists hate. Over the last decade

the "terrorists", so to speak, [have] won.

New term in dictionary. "Sonyfail" Epic fail

[Anonymous Coward]

Found on urban dictionary.

Sonyfail

When an apparent act of failure is so consistently repeated, of such a grandiosely stupid, and/or of spectacularly epic proportions that no additional adjectives applied to describe it will ever do any further justice, such as the corporate failure by SONYin 2011.
HAHA! SONYFAIL! HAHA!!!

Example: "Man, that managers rant outburst in the meeting was sonyfail"