Post: Sony's President Gives Hackers Credit
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06-16-2011, 01:48 AM
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x iJB x
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Sony along with the entire PlayStation Community, may not agree with the fact that the PlayStation Network has been targeted by a few hacking groups. But the face of the company, Shuhei Yoshida, the president of SCE Worldwire Studios refers to hackers as geniuses.
In an interview with Shuhei, he began to praise hackers. Despite the fact that they are responsible for PSN going down for roughly a month, and gaining access to 77 million account details. Along with discussing the topic of hacking, Shuhei said:
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As far as those activities go, they’re smart, they’re very very smart, they’re some kind of geniuses. We have no idea how or who they are going to attack, so we should always be prepared…but I have confidence in our network team.
Shuhei also stated that hardware and software that has been recently added to the PSN. Along with it, there has been more people added to monitor the network. Also, it's nice to see he's taking a step back, and looking at the issues. He says that he agrees the company should have done more in the first place to protect the network before the PSN was down and out.
The whole George Hotz drama may be over, but it's definitely one experience that Sony will not be forgetting any time soon.
If there's anything that they'd want people to realize from that experience, though, is that Sony as a company is not completely against hacking. Nay, in fact, they support it. Just that, it's not the kind of hacking that people would normally think of when the H word is uttered.
Said Jack Tretton in an interview with New York Times when asked if "Sony wants to deter customers from modifying the PlayStation 3,":
"No, there's a real misnomer there, we embrace independent game development; if you call that hacking, then we embrace that. We give people tools that let them create new experiences. What I don't think we are in support of is someone trying to hack our device to pirate software and possibly collapse the platform."
Sony has been involved in a whirlwind of hackery drama this year, first with PS3 hacker George Hotz, which eventually ended in a settlement, and then with the highly publicized PSN security breach.
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06-16-2011, 09:02 AM
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-Skyline
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I don't really call breaking into someone's house and confiscating his research in getting a feature back, which the PS3 originally had, "praising hackers", more like Genocide.
There are no tools available from Sony for everyday people to use in creating their own Software either.
Why lie Mr President? :megusta:
There are no tools available from Sony for everyday people to use in creating their own Software either.
Why lie Mr President? :megusta:
06-16-2011, 07:55 PM
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darrendubstep
Haxor!
But I still pay for these products I should be able to do what I want with it !!!!
06-22-2011, 08:20 PM
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lndifferent
Do a barrel roll!
At least they scared them into upping security. Nice read though.
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