frosty
04-23-2011, 10:00 PM
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We've all heard about them, and some of us used to respect what they did until now. Anonymous, the infamous group of hackers who claim to do their work for good causes, has started a cyber-war with Sony that has succeeded in bringing down the PlayStation Network twice now, with no end in sight to the current outage.
Let's take a look at some of the claims they have made to back up their attack. They said they attacked Sony because it was suing people who were hacking the PS3, such as the iPhone hacker George Hotz. They claim they meant no harm to Sony's PlayStation Network users when they brought it down the first time, and came back out saying that they were going to change their tactics for attacking Sony. This was the first lie. More on that later.
When they did change their approach, which went through a series of useless tactics ranging anywhere between ordering pizzas to Sony exec's houses to failed attempts at organizing worldwide sit in boycotts at Sony stores, they realized they weren't getting far. That, and they were being made out to look like a bunch of immature brats who had no real power and made empty threats to try to look cool. The internet equivalent of leaving a burning bag of poo on someone's doorstep. They were failing, and the gamers who already hated them for bringing PSN down the first time were laughing at them the whole time.
So, they stepped up their attacks. PSN service became sporadic over the coming days, and finally was brought down all together a second time. Sony actually shut the service down from within while trying to find the source of the attacks and a way to deal with them. At first Sony remained tight lipped about the cause, but eventually their developers, like Q Games and Media Molecule, began letting it slip that it was likely caused by an external attack. Eventually Sony decided to admit it, and said service could be out for a couple days.
All along, AnonOps denied any responsibility, which is where lie number two comes into play. Well, more of a contradiction than a lie... Anonymous is not a centralized group of hackers, but instead is made up of many "Anons" that loosely coordinate attacks, but have no real system of authority. As such, one group of "Anons" doesn't have to follow orders given by another. So, while AnonOps may have taken the official stance that they were not responsible, that was only one of their many faces talking. In the end, Anonymous (who officially claimed as a collective that they were not out to hurt the PSN user) is still attacking PSN, regardless of whether one group within Anonymous denies responsibility or not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tm7UKo4IBc&feature=player_embedded#at=117
Then comes lie number 3, where Anonymous claimed that they succeeded with their mission of getting the cases against GeoHot dropped. What they didn't say is the case against Alexander Egorenkov, the other hacker they claimed they were coming to the defense of, is still playing out in Germany. So, this shows that they never actually succeeded in getting their demands met to begin with, and instead were cutting and running because they realized this whole thing had gotten out of their control and splinter hacker groups were still attacking PSN and ruining Anonymous' image.
Lie number four also relates to them claiming success over Sony dropping the case against GeoHot. Their list of demands (only one of which they claim was met) was released on April 5, 2011. Sony's settlement with George Hotz was filed almost a week prior to Anonymous releasing their list of demands from Sony, thus proving even that point a lie.
Sony Computer Entertainment America (“SCEA”) and George Hotz (“Hotz”) today announced the settlement of the lawsuit filed by SCEA against Hotz in federal court in San Francisco, California. The parties reached an agreement in principle on March 31, 2011. As part of the settlement, Hotz consented to a permanent injunction.
In addition, their demand that Sony restore the ability to modify your PS3 operating system was never met, yet they still tried to paint the picture that since Sony settled out of court with GeoHot, they were riding off into the sunset victorious. That they had somehow done the Sony customer a service by taking their ability to play what they paid for away from them. Wait... wasn't this whole thing about Sony taking away abilities that they paid for? Lie number 5.
And of course, the most obvious lie that Anonymous states, over and over again... That information is free. Yet, they remain Anonymous. So, it must only be free unless you want to know who they are... Then their hypocrisy shows it's ugly face once more.
http://static.skattertech.com/media/2011/04/anon_sony1.jpg
We've all heard about them, and some of us used to respect what they did until now. Anonymous, the infamous group of hackers who claim to do their work for good causes, has started a cyber-war with Sony that has succeeded in bringing down the PlayStation Network twice now, with no end in sight to the current outage.
Let's take a look at some of the claims they have made to back up their attack. They said they attacked Sony because it was suing people who were hacking the PS3, such as the iPhone hacker George Hotz. They claim they meant no harm to Sony's PlayStation Network users when they brought it down the first time, and came back out saying that they were going to change their tactics for attacking Sony. This was the first lie. More on that later.
When they did change their approach, which went through a series of useless tactics ranging anywhere between ordering pizzas to Sony exec's houses to failed attempts at organizing worldwide sit in boycotts at Sony stores, they realized they weren't getting far. That, and they were being made out to look like a bunch of immature brats who had no real power and made empty threats to try to look cool. The internet equivalent of leaving a burning bag of poo on someone's doorstep. They were failing, and the gamers who already hated them for bringing PSN down the first time were laughing at them the whole time.
So, they stepped up their attacks. PSN service became sporadic over the coming days, and finally was brought down all together a second time. Sony actually shut the service down from within while trying to find the source of the attacks and a way to deal with them. At first Sony remained tight lipped about the cause, but eventually their developers, like Q Games and Media Molecule, began letting it slip that it was likely caused by an external attack. Eventually Sony decided to admit it, and said service could be out for a couple days.
All along, AnonOps denied any responsibility, which is where lie number two comes into play. Well, more of a contradiction than a lie... Anonymous is not a centralized group of hackers, but instead is made up of many "Anons" that loosely coordinate attacks, but have no real system of authority. As such, one group of "Anons" doesn't have to follow orders given by another. So, while AnonOps may have taken the official stance that they were not responsible, that was only one of their many faces talking. In the end, Anonymous (who officially claimed as a collective that they were not out to hurt the PSN user) is still attacking PSN, regardless of whether one group within Anonymous denies responsibility or not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tm7UKo4IBc&feature=player_embedded#at=117
Then comes lie number 3, where Anonymous claimed that they succeeded with their mission of getting the cases against GeoHot dropped. What they didn't say is the case against Alexander Egorenkov, the other hacker they claimed they were coming to the defense of, is still playing out in Germany. So, this shows that they never actually succeeded in getting their demands met to begin with, and instead were cutting and running because they realized this whole thing had gotten out of their control and splinter hacker groups were still attacking PSN and ruining Anonymous' image.
Lie number four also relates to them claiming success over Sony dropping the case against GeoHot. Their list of demands (only one of which they claim was met) was released on April 5, 2011. Sony's settlement with George Hotz was filed almost a week prior to Anonymous releasing their list of demands from Sony, thus proving even that point a lie.
Sony Computer Entertainment America (“SCEA”) and George Hotz (“Hotz”) today announced the settlement of the lawsuit filed by SCEA against Hotz in federal court in San Francisco, California. The parties reached an agreement in principle on March 31, 2011. As part of the settlement, Hotz consented to a permanent injunction.
In addition, their demand that Sony restore the ability to modify your PS3 operating system was never met, yet they still tried to paint the picture that since Sony settled out of court with GeoHot, they were riding off into the sunset victorious. That they had somehow done the Sony customer a service by taking their ability to play what they paid for away from them. Wait... wasn't this whole thing about Sony taking away abilities that they paid for? Lie number 5.
And of course, the most obvious lie that Anonymous states, over and over again... That information is free. Yet, they remain Anonymous. So, it must only be free unless you want to know who they are... Then their hypocrisy shows it's ugly face once more.
http://static.skattertech.com/media/2011/04/anon_sony1.jpg