PSN getting attacked by hackers

I swear this bs with geohut and hackers that support him is getting on my last nerve.

Geohot is a fag and attacking something that's gonna affect gamers is retarded.

All of my respect for geohot was alreday gone, when he bailed.

good thing I haven't been online these couple of days.

Aren't they just ddosing PSN?

Thats basically F5ing on big scale.

Do people have a grudge against sony or something?
It gets lonely on top so i cant blame them.
there are more greedy companies out there rather then sony.

*Sigh*, not cool Anonymous.

If the info about family is true. They have stepped over the line.

You do realize Anonymous is not a single group right? In fact, they're not a group of all. They're just a name. Anyone can claim to be in it and use it however they feel like it. That's the idea behind it. The same group of people that are doing this may not be the same people who attacked the Westboro Church's website. Everyone assumes that just because these guys are "hackers" that they're the same group of people. Anon is just a name.

Whatever the hell they're doing or planning to do is dumb. Wage a war on Sony? That's bullshit in every sense. It's funny how that they're doing all this in support of Geohot. When Geohot was the one trying to "help" gamers (I am not saying I support his actions at all, I am quite neutral on it). All they're actually doing now is causing a shitload of trouble for people who don't deserve it. Targeting employees of Sony is as dumb as it gets. Do they really think that those low-level guys have any say in this? I honestly wonder what their rationale behind it is. All they're trying to do is become infamous, as a group that did something "cool."

Look out Sony! you shall be inconvenienced for a short time and may have to reset your server. RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!

Those damn Anon kids forgot that they are using a product that was made by Sony. Seriously where does this world falling to... some underage emos rage because some dude broke a licensed product and the company who made it is trying it's best to remove that flaw starting with the host himself....really? Or have i understood something the wrong way?

I agree that this was a foolish move made by Anon, not mentioning that they are targeting the wrong people inside Sony as well.

Then again, it's not like I can't understand where they come from; if you have bought a PS3, then you own it, and it should be nobody but your own goddamn business what you do with it. Dling and playing games on a jailed PS3 is one thing, but it's not the jailbreak that should be illegal.

The only reason I support Geohot is because if you buy something, YOU own it. No one else should be able to tell you how to use it.

Also, Anonymous =/= Geohot and the other jailbreakers. All sides have their extremists, Hackers and jailbreakers just happen to have the worst of them.

Yup, sony fighting for the cause that corporation wants, when you buy something you're renting it! Even food that you just ate and is in stomach.

U wanna corporations sue you for the hotdogs and pizzas you're eating? No? Well. You just proven that $ony is a bunch of.. i dont know what word to use.

Even when you're innocent, and using other os for perfectly legit purposes but naw, sony gonna remove ur ability to use that feature for lulz and laziness.

Well, it looks like they've stopped since their attacks were affecting PSN users.

Geohot's hacking skills are way better than mine will ever be, but he always seems to act like a douche in his blog posts.

Sure, I'd like to use the device I purchased the way I want, without restrictions or locks. Geohot knew that jailbreaking the PS3 meant anything could happen.

By enabling that, an obvious side effect of having no restrictions is that users can now play "backup copies" and cheat in multiplayer games and other crap.

I could care less about people playing "backups," but there's always a certain amount of people who screw everyone else by taking it too far and hacking/cheating in multiplayer.

ok here's what happened

Geohot was mad Anon group got mad cause Geohot is a fellow hacker then Anon challenged Sony for the rights of what geohot was doing then they accidently took down psn they said they didn't wanna affect the sony customers so they halted their attack

the end

The difference is that food is a product of a different type of business. Many gaming corporations are already choosing other consoles because the PS3's production costs are too expensive. One of the main reasons gaming companies choose it is that because it's supposed to be safe, if someone hacks into it successfully and is able to make a firmware that allows users to play free games it would really tarnish the company's reputation and lose what ever credibility it has left.

As much as I like the idea of being able to play my ps2 games in my ps3 I would say that Geohotz didn't think for everyone's best welfare when he hacked into the ps3 and blatantly distributed it. What I would've done if I were him was to approach Sony and tell them specifically on how I broke into the unit which may help them cut down on production costs without letting go on the other features. What he did was a double edged sword which not only tarnishes the console's already flawed reputation but also takes away future epic games from innocent gamers.

So basically how i see the picture is:
Microsoft gets their way using the $ method
And Sony gets their way using the flawlessness of their safety measures which is pretty much scrapped by now.
And the outcome is: Gaming companies can pretty much put a cross on PS3 and just target 360's audience, after all the difference at this point is....PS3 game production costs 2 times 360's production which is kinda.....

We can start selling our consoles already lol before they cost - digits lol.

http://kotaku.com/#!5790814/playstation-hacker-geohot-settles-with-sony-computer-entertainment-america

Well it looks like it might be over~

Lawl, so in the end, what happened was... Nothing.