Sony Hacked Again - Competency Questioned
April 20th, 2011, the day the nightmare began for Sony, and it's still ongoing.
However, millions of PlayStation users have started to realize, it's not a game anymore. Suddenly, the question has gone from "When can I play my game again" to "What has happened to my personal information?".
The Sony PlayStation Network and Qriocity music streaming service have been shut down since the 20th of April, when the breach was detected. Hackers stole personal details belonging to 77 million users including names, addresses, email addresses, birth dates and passwords.
Increasingly, Sony has been coming under fire for competency, and even outright negligence with regards to their handling and safekeeping of user's private information. For example, when Mr. Bruce Schneier, chief security technology officer at BT (British Telecom) and a world expert on cryptography, was asked if Sony should have known better, he said “definitely”.
While it is easy to point fingers and blame Sony, there is an equally important point that it seems everyone is missing entirely.
I don't hear anyone blaming the hacker(s) for bringing down the service and inconveniencing millions of fellow generation game players in the first place.
PlayStation Network users are angry and frustrated at Sony for having the network down for so long,. Why can't they realize it wouldn't have been down at all if hackers hadn't ruined it for them.
Certainly, Sony should have done things differently, that is an absolute, indisputable fact, but that doesn't excuse the hacker(s) actions and give them a green light.
Let's look at this a moment. Literally, one or more individuals took it upon themselves to knowingly break into a system to take things, personal information and details for their own personal gain, and no one is putting up a fuss against the hacker(s). Where is the logic in that?
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