What people blaming Geohotz and the "hackers" seem to be missing...

[vlad321]

Vetteman94 said:

While I dont blame the hackers for this crap, although someone obviously got into Sony's servers and took some information.  I am not going to blame Geohot and all those other morons for this.

But what i dont get is placing the blame squarely on Sony for this. Sure there security wasnt the greatest and should have been better for the PSN servers.  But they werent the ones who broke into it and took information.   It would be like blaming a bank for a robbery that happened on a their vault that wasnt completely secure and ignoring the robbers who actually did it. Just because it wasnt completely secure doesnt make it right that they did this. In the end its still the fault of the hacker who broke into the PSN service and took information that wasnt his.

The second lecture in Information Security they beat into a student's ignorant head that "IF THEY GET A HOLD OF HARDWARE, ASSUME IT IS HACKED." Sony dared to hope and dream that the PS3 will not be hacked, and proceeded to plan around that. I am sorry, but if a corporation doesn't follow what a stupid junior in college has been taught, then they deserve all the blame plus an extra 50 lashing for sheer idiocy.