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I'm really surprised nobody's taken matters into their own hands regarding these 'hackers,' since the government seems toothless or doesn't care (and neither MS or Sony seem to care all that much, either). Unless these guys are truly impossible to trace, of course, I'm not gonna even pretend to know half of what this techno-terrorism garbage means.



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arcaneguyver said:
I'm really surprised nobody's taken matters into their own hands regarding these 'hackers,' since the government seems toothless or doesn't care (and neither MS or Sony seem to care all that much, either). Unless these guys are truly impossible to trace, of course, I'm not gonna even pretend to know half of what this techno-terrorism garbage means.


One lizard squad member revealed himself and had an interview with a news reporter recently. The reporter basically proved how nothing that he did helped anyone and actually only ruined holidays for some. After he stumbled back for a second he caught himself and stood firm that what he was doing was right.



Xbox One is working fine for me. I guess this is only a PSN thing. 3 days without online gaming seems harsh to be honest. Is PSN up yet?



I guess this is allot like the Nazi's in WW2 then?

"We invaded the polish because the polish were not investing enough into the military defenses and we wanted to encourage them to improve them to defend against invaders like us"

Lizard squad are causing harm primarily to gamers like us for attention and not to improve our situation.

They are also NOT hackers in any sense of the word, their own twitter was hacked and taken offline at one point. DDOS is not hacking, DDOS is like someone going into the lobby of a building and making a scene getting in everyone's way.



This is the Game of Thrones

Where you either win

or you DIE

Nothing was hacked though.



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Fucking morons. They wanted to show "the companies’ inability to protect their consumers". Yeah right. That's why they attack the services themselves on one of the busiest days of the year? Couldn't they have informed Sony and MS some other way?

They're just a bunch of basement losers who feel empowered by this. But they don't realise they're fucking losers.



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NavyNut said:
Nintendo was too cute to attack.

Maybe they have Cloudflare protection!



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fps_d0minat0r said:
I hate vandalism so I will smash car windows until vandalism becomes an impossible event.

/sarcasm.


good plan.. :p



LudicrousSpeed said:
Apparently PSN is slightly harder to take down and infinitely harder to get back online.

Tech people too busy screaming AAAAAAAAAA in each others faces



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kowenicki said:
Shinobi-san said:
To all those saying ddos is not a legitimate hack, you are wrong.

There are multiple methods to go about ddos, some of which include exploiting security flaws and what many of you think are legitimate hacking.

Fact of the matter is, these service were almost completely shut down for days, a standard ddos attack as you are all probably thinking of it, is not what happened here as those can easily be mitigated or at least partially mitigated.


live was down for hours not days. It wasn't a hack.

"It was down for hours" =/= "it wasn't a hack"