New PSN attack is more bigger but it wouldn’t hurt the members – Unknown

[Dodece]

On one hand you have people claiming it is all an exaggeration, but there seems to be a lot of downplaying all these events, and even some weak justification. The truth is that others behaving badly doesn't diminish culpability. People are known to murder one another. Doesn't mean I should get a slap on the wrist for deciding to do the same. The social media argument is equally lame. Yes there are a lot of people that are lax with their privacy. That doesn't mean there aren't people that took their privacy seriously. I for one do not buy into social media. I prefer to keep the complete freedom of expression the net offers.

Ironically a lot of these arguments revolve around the fact that the hackers had scruples, and were acting politically rather then criminally. They showed restraint, and some here thinks that it made the attack less bad. While true in the real world. It was a very real threat. Breaking into a house and holding someone at gun point is still pretty horrible even if the criminal doesn't steal anything or harm anyone.

What kind of irks me is the willingness to ignore that these attacks are about more then the first attack. Even though that is the primary concern for everyone on these forums. Since the first breach the hackers have established volume while retaining effectiveness. As I have pointed out twenty attacks, and the hackers are still outing millions of accounts. So it isn't just that Sony is getting hacked a lot. Defacement and spamming of sites is one thing, but they are still getting hacked in the worst kind of way. The hackers are stealing information in bulk.

Don't believe the hype denial of service attacks are many times less problematic then networks being breached. The majority of non Sony related attacks have been denial of service attacks. While the vast majority of Sony attacks have been breaches. Even though the media lumps all such attacks together. That doesn't mean they are on the same field.