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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Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: Chrome // 16/06/2011
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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06-22-2011, 08:52 PM
#29
tomisliver
Haxor!
I Agree with him, these people can do anything they want when it comes to computers, i cant even do simple hacks on MW2 sometimes without failing.
BTW nice thread (Y)
BTW nice thread (Y)
06-22-2011, 10:20 PM
#30
Theguy123456
Banned
Originally posted by chocomonkey321
So they support us being able to make our own games and develop things, yet they sue GeoHot even though his firmware didn't allow piracy at all. Oh and they took away OtherOS. Honestly if they wanted to satisfy us, they'd release 3.70 with OtherOS re-enabled and some tools to create your own homebrew games.
LOL i kno it dosn't make sense
06-23-2011, 12:37 AM
#31
Xx-VoiD-xX
Grunt
The thing that gets me though is if they support homebrew stuff and modding, then why have a rootkit on the newest FW...And why ban people when they are found out to have a modded FW? To me it sounds like BS. But i do agree with not supporting Console piracy. I do although support PC Piracy >
lol
Thanks for the post
lolThanks for the post
06-26-2011, 08:22 PM
#33
Khazhar
Keeper
Those hackers may be smart, but that doesn't say I won't (negative + negative = positive? doesn't won't) want to break their faces. If they want to say something against Sony, write a frikkin' letter. They didn't have to put PSN down the time I had my 2 week vacation.. I have never been more bored in my life!
06-26-2011, 09:23 PM
#34
ZMK-iNFiNiTY
Vault dweller
Originally posted by x
Sony's President Gives Hackers Credit
Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: Chrome // 16/06/2011
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:
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.
Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: Chrome // 16/06/2011
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:
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.
Nice to see some kind of respect from sony ? ..Mabey it just there way to act like they care to the puplic eye?? To hope hackers never bring them down again ,since there bully tactics has only created disruption to there whole network ,lol .. Maybe they will think 2x next time they want to sue someone
06-27-2011, 08:13 AM
#35
Fishyboy17
Keeper
hackers are smart they just use they brains for the wrong reasons
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