Sony On The Hunt For All The Hackers

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Darc Requiem said:

Cypher1980 said:

Darc Requiem said:

Why do I get the feeling that this will only embolden hackers to focus on Sony platforms even more?

Precisely.

Posturing like this will only give hackers a form of justification for their actions.

Why oh why do SONY behave like such monumental dicks all the time.

May as well just paint a frickin target on their chests.

I'm not sure. They are wasting money poking the beehive with a stick. They'd be better served to use the funds to make their future platforms more secure. Hackers aren't a rival corporation, they are individuals spread across the globe. If Sony's lucky they may snag a half dozen or so, get no money from them because they don't have it, and piss off the thousands of hackers they didn't catch.

Yea, but its not about catching them all, as that is never feasible.  The same deal could be said about banks for example.  Somebody robs a bank, and the bank wants their damn money back.  Because they will never catch all of the people who robbed their bank, they are being told to instead to just spend their money on improving the security of the bank.  Somebody will still manage to be able to rob the bank somehow, and steal their money.  But once again, they will just be pushed to improve their security again.  So rather than going out and fixing at least some of the issues with the property being stolen from them, they should just keep trying to improve a future console, so it will be more secure?  (Even though somebody will likely figure out how to hack that as well).

Just because the legal system isn't able to punish every single person who breaks laws is no reason why we shouldn't go after at least some of the people that we managed to catch breaking the law.