Sony's latest attack on customer freedom

[Squilliam]

dharh said:

Squilliam said:

If your bank screwed up their private key in the way that Sony did which enabled hackers to access your account, you wouldn't blame the hackers you would blame your bank for their lax security. I don't understand why people rail against the hackers when the one who truly screwed up here is Sony. It is the same deal if you all bought a super advanced security system from Sony and someone figured out how to open the front door to your home with a special knock.

On to other news, people have the right to do whatever they want with their system. Sony has the right to secure the system in a way which limits what people can do with their hardware. Sony exercised their rights, other people exercised theirs. We don't live in a society where companies can tell you what you can and cannot do with your own property, that is up to the courts to decide if your actions impact on others in a criminal or civil way.

 

I would blame both, especially if the hackers dumped the mean to do the hack and the info they got. Which is what is going on here when any of the systems get hacked.

SONY is still culpible for having suck security, but so is MS and nintendo. 

SONY screwed up, the hackers are still assholes.

Your second paragraph is completely right. Also the fact that people do not have the right to distribute the methods of hacking said systems.

How does Microsoft's security or claimed lack thereof negatively effect users in a comparable way? The same applies to Nintendo since the majority of the effects are localised to particular Wii's for homebrew or piracy. You can't easily go out and buy an Xbox 360 which is hackable to nearly the same extent because it is restricted to specific older models which haven't been updated. You can buy any PS3 you want and gain the same priveledge Sony has, you can even write software which will work on any PS3 ever created. So this is definately not comparable.

When you say Sony screwed up, you have it partially wrong. They screwed up in proportion to the size of the titans in SOTC. Getting the most important 100 lines of security code wrong and having other security assumptions compound the problem further is extremely problematic. The hackers being assholes doesn't really matter because what is done is done. What you think of what they did doesn't really matter. For better or worse the PS3 is becoming an open system which comes with benefits and problems. PC = PS3 in many respects now.