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fordy on 02 May 2011
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the_wizard_man said:
fordy said:
the_wizard_man said:

financial insitutions it's alot more pressing then a gaming company, and all you really told me with that is that Sony isn't the premire of secruity (which I already knew) and you don't know what the industry standard is either, you seem biased because you work for a company that does have a higher industry standard then Sony's industry and it's your job to make sure they have top of the line secruity and any company that doesn't you call negliligent when it might not be realistic for other industries to do so 


What? I'm biased towards security? Shouldn't everyone be? There is no excuse for lax security, especially for one with a revenue as big as Sony.

Security is not a finite resource that has to be shared. There was nothing stopping Sony upgrading to 2.2.17 because my company may have done it, that argument is completely ludicrous.

So tell me, what was so unrealistic of Sony to NOT keep their services up to date? I'd really like to hear this. The company holds sensitive data for millions of users, their assets are one of the largest in the world, yet updating an Apache server is way to damn much to ask for from them!

"Shouldn't everyone be?" With that we enter the freedom vs security argument, and martial law and stuff, everyone would be safer if we were inside before it gets dark, but that isn't realistic for adults but it is for kids, see what I'm getting at 

Uh, no. Where does freedom vs security come into this? Sony aren't keeping data hostage from users. They willingly put their information on there in confidence that Sony had the security to keep it locked away. there's no "exceptions" here. Nobody is whining that the added security wouldn't allow them to do something.

 

They were fine 10 months after they didn't upgrade and if they didn't piss off hackers they'd probably have been fine until they upgraded, and psn is a free service, if you pour too much money into a service you don't charge for the service itself can collapse and thats not good for your customers, and like I said before if you don't know what the indsutry standards are you shouldn't call them negligent, especially when all they lost on the psn servers was stuff most people put on facebook and are on 100 other different sites with next to no security some of them random people are allowed to see the info 

So this is what the defense has come to? "But....everybody else is doing it!" Does that mean it's still right? Of course not! And I'm not speaking from a professional point of view on this one, I'm speaking on the point of a consumer, one that is not a mindless drone who responds with "Yes Sony. you're right, Sony. We're sorry for being bad customers, Sony. We'll do better next time"