Admin Dev Accounts Breached PSN Returning Tuesday?

[Grimes]

ssj12 said:

Grimes said:

In other words, you have no evidence that any such major security breach has occured. You are only speculating that it might be possible based on a limted understanding of what other people have told you. You have no knowledge of how the user data is stored or what measures are being taking to protect them, but you're saying it's 100% possible for the data to be taken using methods that may or may not even be related to which other systems are implemented.

data storage of all types when it comes to networking falls into databases. There is only so much an HTTPS connection with firewalls, etc can do considering you have to allow bypassing of certain securities in order to have a database write new user information and pull up old data. How do you think personal information is stored on Facebook, the PSN, Steam, web forums, gmail, myspace, etc? databases.

And even if you use separate databases for different functions, like most web forums, they all have to interact in some form. Injecting information into one will instantly affect them all. This is why web forums are so damn easy to screw up. You attack a database on the server, add a bit of odd code, the forums are either annihilated or yours to control. While it takes sometime, you can do it by simply downloading a few files off the internet and following directions.

You don't think Microsoft has enemies or people who would attack them if they could? If it were so easy as you claim, those people would certainly do so. There are no shortage of Microsoft haters in the world. If they could attack so easily, then I have no doubt they would have taken down the system long ago.