You can cancel your "psn is coming back up this weekend party" cuz it ain't

[Stefan.De.Machtige]

NJ5 said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

Ultr said:

Grimes said:

The infrastructure of the system must have been pretty deficient if they are unable to fix it after so long. Three weeks in the IT world is like a lifetime. Can you imagine if google went offline for this long, they would be crucified.

a friend told me that 2 weeks for rebuilding such a system is impossible, they really want everything to be secure

The normal procedure would be to place backups and update, not rebuilding. Rebuilding really means that parts of the system were flawed from the beginning.

Yeah... maybe install some firewalls as well.

The problem is, if they're adding firewalls that can break some assumptions on the network code in the console firmware and servers.

Worst case they may have to retest all online games to make sure they all work (if they don't then it's another cycle of fixing things, making sure the system is still secure with the fixes, and re-testing).

I assumed they would "update" the existing firewalls. Normally they should have some before this.

Your worst case could even be worse is they put back PSN with damaged or faulty accounts. Then the sh*tstorm could become a hurricane...

Sony has a difficult decision to make:

Either they bring back PSN now and risk a potential succesfull attack - puls some bad PR about still to be made fixes.

Or they bring back PSN when it's all tested out and very secure. No online for another 2/3 weeks looks real bad in the IT world. When you show yourself as an high-end hardware company, you want to project competence in everthing.

I don't envy them. This thing could cost them a entire quarter profit.