Sony On The Hunt For All The Hackers

[r505Matt]

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.

Exactly, couldn't have put it better myself. It's as if Sony doesn't know what the internet is. Once something is on the internet, especially something of a damaging nature such as this, it will spread. They act as if by prosecuting hackers, they will stop the flow. They will not.

Update on the story too, "Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or “distributing” the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/sony-lawyers-now-targeting-anyone-who-posts-playstation-3-hack.ars