Detective Work Reveals PSN Servers Up To Date

[Profcrab]

thismeintiel said:

Profcrab said:

A poster on a website does brief research that consitutes looking up the version of a the web server operating Sony's webpage and this consitutes any sort of real proof that the servers that were breached were up to date and had the appopriate security?  The information seems just as unreliable.  Excuse me if I don't call the esteemed data security services of deathindustrial.

Sony has a black eye over this.  There was a breach and personal data was lost.  That was bad.  The informed customers 6 days after they discovered the breach.  That is worse.  A credit card database was cofirmed stolen.  That is even worse.  To top it off, the online system that went down is still down 18 days later.  BAMM!  That is a black eye that is going to sting for a few years.  Fixing this mess and repairing the damage is going to cost Sony alot of money over the course of those years.

It isn't about wanting to see Sony fall.  When we hear the details of how and why this breach occured, we can discuss the degree to which Sony was negligent before the breach.  The results of the breach, however, are bad enough.  At this point, the hole has been dug and Sony is in it.

As Trollian said, the professor's claim was just as, if not more, unreliable.  And I have to laugh at the few years comment.  It will take only a few months after the PSN goes back up for this to be out of the vast majority's minds.  It's already started to slip out of people's minds because of the news of Bin Laden's death. 

The online service being down this long that has several ramifications. First, customer's will be hesitent to store credit card numbers on the service.  This means lost PSN sales.  This leads to the second point.  No one is going to want to make PSN exclusive games.  Anyone who has, has just seen a month of revenue go down the tubes.  If you were one of those developers, would you think of staying exclusive in the future?  Sure, Sony can lower their licensing fee and provide incentives, but after the nature of this intrusion, it is likely that PSN sales will be slugish when it does come back up.  So, expect that the developers are going to go multiplatform.

Third, this is going to affect the popularity and overall sales fo recently released online centered games.  That is lost revenue.

How is it starting to slip out of people's minds?  The service is still down.  What will stick in people's minds is.  "Don't give credit card info to Sony." and "Sony's onine service is unreliable."  Now, after the service is back up, those concerns may not really be valid, but they will stick with the PS3 for the rest of this generation just like the RRoD sticks with Microsoft even though new systems fixed the issue.  All of this translates into lost sales and major money that Sony has to invest to fix the PR nightmare.  Microsoft didn't even get dragged in front of Congress to explain the issue.  The media put a giant flashlight on this issue because they love to show big companies screwing up.  This is going to stick with people when they are looking to drop several hundred on a game system.

When all is said and done, this will have cost Sony big money.