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    SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    halkun wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
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    Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

    I'm pretty sure that's Che

    That's Snake Pliskin.

    Oh shit, they're thinking of covering people for the cost of reissuing their credit cards.

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    halkunhalkun Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    you are right. I get Che and Maddox mixed up and it's been years since I've seen EFNY

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    V FactionV Faction Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Free PSN+ for a month.

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The initial phase of the rollout will include, but is not limited to, the following:

    Restoration of Online game-play across the PlayStation®3 (PS3) and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) systems
    -This includes titles requiring online verification and downloaded games
    Access to Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity for PS3/PSP for existing subscribers
    Access to account management and password reset
    Access to download un-expired Movie Rentals on PS3, PSP and MediaGo
    PlayStation®Home
    Friends List
    Chat Functionality
    The new security measures implemented include, but are not limited to, the following:

    Added automated software monitoring and configuration management to help defend against new attacks
    Enhanced levels of data protection and encryption
    Enhanced ability to detect software intrusions within the network, unauthorized access and unusual activity patterns
    Implementation of additional firewalls

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    SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    "Aiming to restore full services" within "this month".

    Now they're talking about anonymous, and that they released information about the families of top SCE officials onto the internet.

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    chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    ...Hoho, time to start blaming up Anon a bit, too. REDIRECT THAT BLAME SONY.

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    V FactionV Faction Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Bringing up anonymous?

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So no hint what the free download might be?

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    halkunhalkun Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    You mean they are going to require a username and password to access the Dev Network. That's pretty boss! :/

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    SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Questions from the audience?

    This oughtta be good.

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    TurboGuardTurboGuard Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    ...Hoho, time to start blaming up Anon a bit, too. REDIRECT THAT BLAME SONY.

    Wow, really?

    I swear some of you people...

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    chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Well they did bring them up, which just seems silly.

    I feel like the information given so far is nothing more tangible than whats been in the FAQs for a few days now.

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    SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    "By the end of a week time we would like to restart our services in order".

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    BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    This is retarded... i dont want Calling all Cars and i sure as shit dont want PSN+

    God i hope they get some unfiltered questions.

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    The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Wait, what? We're actually getting CaC now?

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    chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    They didnt specify the 'free content and entertainment', its supposedly 'region tailored' though. Who knows. I expect the worst.

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    SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The reason the FBI has gotten involved is because SNEI is headquartered in the United States.

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So when does the free month start because PS+ without having the store for most of that period could be rather pointless.

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    CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    What is a Calling All Cars? Can I eat it? Is it a thing?

    I dunno guys.

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    korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Did Sony just admit that they knew about the vulnerability of the servers that got attacked?

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    so when are we gonna get our PS3s in a big pile and burn them

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    chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    You wouldn't want to eat it. It's pretty shitty. Unless you're a fly.

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    chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    korodullin wrote: »
    Did Sony just admit that they knew about the vulnerability of the servers that got attacked?

    They said it's a 'known' vulnerability, as in IT documented security firms know it exists, but not that they knew it was there.

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    SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    korodullin wrote: »
    Did Sony just admit that they knew about the vulnerability of the servers that got attacked?

    I'm not sure if by "known vulnerability" they meant they knew of a vulnerability in the PSN, or if the method used by the hacker was a known one.

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    V FactionV Faction Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    korodullin wrote: »
    Did Sony just admit that they knew about the vulnerability of the servers that got attacked?

    They're making it sound like SNEI to blame, being unware of it.

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    BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Im sorry, why exactly does a company as large as sony not have their own security division?

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    MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'd like to get all righteously indignant over the fact that it's just a free month of PSN+ and some shitty download.

    But then honestly, short of un-losing my fucking personal information, there's literally nothing Sony could do that would satisfy me.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Didn't they switch over to SNEI from SOE like, a week or two before this happened

    I remember that being a minor story, and having to agree to a new ToS

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    SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So I guess the reason they took so long to tell everyone what had happened was because they wanted to make sure they told everyone exactly what had happened, and it took a long time to figure out exactly what had happened.

    That makes sense, I guess.

    Haha,

    Q.) So if the credit card info wasn't taken/the motive wasn't money, why did someone hack your shit?

    A.) We don't fucking know.

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    CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Maddoc wrote: »
    I'd like to get all righteously indignant over the fact that it's just a free month of PSN+ and some shitty download.

    But then honestly, short of un-losing my fucking personal information, there's literally nothing Sony could do that would satisfy me.

    That's pretty much how I see it too. I already had to explain to my mom, whose credit card I use as a convenience for online purchases, why PSN is no longer a reliable avenue for my leisure money and why she now has to get the card changed. Handing me a shitty game thing and a month free of a service I had absolutely no interest in to begin with just insults me at this point. It feels cheap.

    I just want my goddamn Uncharted 2 Lab Weekend damnit.

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    V FactionV Faction Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Didn't they switch over to SNEI from SOE like, a week or two before this happened

    I remember that being a minor story, and having to agree to a new ToS

    They mentioned in the report that it was done at the start of April. So quite soon.

    Oof, being asked as to why someone would want to hack 'em. Throwin' the hardballs.

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Couscous wrote: »
    So when does the free month start because PS+ without having the store for most of that period could be rather pointless.

    The free month started the day it all went down.

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    Two Headed BoyTwo Headed Boy Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Translating Japanese must be hard as shit, because I have never ever ever heard a good on-the-spot translator.

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    OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So I guess the reason they took so long to tell everyone what had happened was because they wanted to make sure they told everyone exactly what had happened, and it took a long time to figure out exactly what had happened.

    That makes sense, I guess.

    The first thing you do is tell people what might have happened so they can take precautions. You don't wait 6 days and then tell them. It's not a time to try and save face, it's a time to try and limit any potential damages caused by letting the victims know they've been victimized even if you don't quite understand the hows and whys yet.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    instead of them picking out the games to give away how about they just put some credit in our wallets

    if I can get a free Arcana Heart 3 out of this whole mess so much the better

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Translating Japanese must be hard as shit, because I have never ever ever heard a good on-the-spot translator.

    I think it mostly has to do with sentence structure being different enough that you have to wait for them to finish part of the sentence to translate it properly.

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    Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Translating Japanese must be hard as shit, because I have never ever ever heard a good on-the-spot translator.

    IMO, a major part of the problem comes from the fact that if you're saying "The boy went to school", in Japanese, it's basically "The boy school to went."

    edit: what Cous said.

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    MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Yeah that sounds like bullshit PR speak.

    They didn't wait so that they could give everyone the details of how their shit was stolen, that's insane reasoning.
    They waited because they hoped further investigation would somehow prove that nothing was stolen and then they could avoid a PR disaster entirely by just not saying anything about the intrusion.

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    BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So to get our "free month" of psn+ do we have to sign up with our credit card?

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So why weren't the passwords encrypted?

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