well i just bought a pair of XB700's and they are some seriously good headphones

so i love sony regardless

But they leaked your music preferences because you bought the headphones... Sony told me you like deadmau5...

but hey, you knew that already!

Sony isn't being persecuted due to nationality. They are a major domestic employer. They pay taxes, and they create jobs. Beyond that Sony is a large media conglomerate with not insubstantial financal resources. That makes them a uninviting target for politicians. What you have here are people that are doing their jobs. Sony lost personal information of millions of Americans. Their breach is being investigated by two federal agencies. They have the NSA there for crying out loud. It should go without saying this is a world leading intelligence agency. They are supposed to be stealing information. Not investigating a corporate theft. 

Sony is just to big, or more specifically has too much data to be ignored. Millions of stolen identities has the potential to do as much damage as a dirty bomb. This breach had, and frankly probably still has the potential to do a lot of damage to the domestic economy. Even if identity theft doesn't occur it will still have negative side effects. The abundance of fraud alerts that this generated are sure to create even more red tape in lending institutions. Slower lending equates to a slower recovery.

No it isn't unreasonable for public officials to want answers, because the welfare of the nation is involved. Public resources are being used, millions of constituents are involved, and technically it was a terrorist act. Sony weren't the only victims so were their customers. You know the people that vote for public officials to safeguard their well being. Give me a break they deserve answers. We deserve answers. Sony should be giving them. It is irresponsible to not do this, and it doesn't serve the public good. Sony having a need to cover up a failure does not exceed the need for public safety.

Would you give a pass to the airline industry after 9/11? So why would you give a pass to Sony? What happened to Sony was a terrorist act. For all those who have a problem with the hackers, and harp endlessly about how they should be the ones held in contempt. Guess what the only way hackers are going to be stopped is for the failures to be examined publicly. Where governments can enact legislation to guarantee higher standards, and where other companies can examine where Sony screwed up so they will not repeat the same mistakes themselves.

I am getting kind of tired of the logic of impotence. That somehow the hackers shall always be victorious. That they are unstoppable, and that they can destroy any company on a whim. That is complete bullshit. They can be stopped, and they can be thwarted. Somehow the demonization has turned these guys into supernatural beings to some on these forums. They are flesh and blood, and hackers get caught all of the time. Yeah they need to be legion, because a lot of them get yanked from circulation.

Sony wasn't felled by Satan. They got sloppy, and some hackers took advantage of that. Want proof that the hackers were not god like beings that they could do anything they wanted. Some of them tripped the burglar alarm. Sony may not have known exactly who had broke in to their network, but they did detect what happened, and locked out the network to external access. This was not a perfect crime. The hackers would have probably liked to have had more time to work their way deeper into the system. So technically the attack was a draw. The hackers stole some things, but they didn't get away with everything.

The only way things like this are going to be stopped in the future is for what is learned to be shared with everyone. If the only people that learn from this are Sony themselves. That would be a complete defeat. Stringers comments make me kind of sad, because it shows how low the standards are for companies such as his, but also how much a failure the laws are. It is painfully obvious that there needs to be more laws to ensure that companies are required to inform, and that there be criminal penalties for not informing. That there must be a time table that they must meet, and that the industry needs some way to document where failures occur. So that all companies can be informed as soon as possible. Sony probably weren't the only ones with these particular holes in their security. This information void only favors the hackers which are probably looking for companies with the exact same setup.