Anonymous promises security test for Sony. Independent cells are a risk.

Whether or not Anonymous has members that act as a independent cell(s) within the group is not officially known . Although it is not unbelievable. There is actually evidence that suggest it is highly likely.

[Nawert]

Please no.

[MagicGamer]

I can't see a easy way to make this crap go away. Anonymous needs to let Sony go so they can seperate the networks as far as security goes. PSN should not be hit because Anonymous is trying to close their stores.

[lil Titan]

close stores or not this has to be the most well know group of haters ive ever seen, its like there soul purpose is to hate everything thats not to there liking all because they got sued for something they wasn't pose to be doing anyway? or some other stupid reason smh

AND stop putting up Guy Fawkes mask what "anonymous" is doing is in no way noble or honorable

[zag]

I don't think they will hit the PSN or SOE servers I reckon it'll be employee servers, that's probably why they will publish everything they get.

Though in saying that if it's PSN user accounts put up online a lot of people won't be happy, around the world.

And what do a lot of pissed of people do they go a lichen and they will be after these people, forget about the net etc, you'll have people watching for the IPs on their IRC server ringing up the news places for info about the spoke people from anon, it'll never end now.

I hope there's is another attack because this time you can bet a server will have been left open and it'll be logging everything done it won't go anywhere.

Even if they post up torrents it uses the computer mac address and the IP to upload etc in the file.

There's so many ways you can pick up these people now it's not funny.

[Lich120]

While I firmly believe that most (if not all) members of anon are script kiddies (i hate that term but can't really think of a better way to describe them) its apparent whoever is responsible for this was a very talented hacker(s). Duping the unwitting masses of anon into a DoS to cover your hack is not only clever but very well planned given the current political state of affairs.

My point with this is that I have a feeling as people start to get caught its going to be the fools who aided the actual mastermind (not to give a them too much credit) behind the hacks, not the actual core conspirators. Experienced hackers are well aware of the trails they leave behind and will cover their asses. Its the script kiddies that aren't going to know any better. Ya know, high school kids who somehow think DoS attacks that affect gamers / peoples personal lives are cool.

[Millah]

Lol @ all these gaming sites who think that Anonymous as a whole is a small consistant organized group of hackers.

Anonymous IS nothing but groups of "independent cells" that act on their own. When will they realize this? The group they're trying to refer to is "SonyOps" not Anonymous as a whole.

THATS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE ANONYMOUS NAME. There is no collective identity, it's simply "Anonymous". Anyone that wants to use the name can do so as they please, as there is no Anonymous police patrolling the Internet preventing anyone from using it.

[Anarki]

This could be taken in a good way. It could just be a test to see if their newer security is good.

[Pixel_Pusher]

Anonymous there are no other causes you could be out there taking on?

[Redgehammer]

I could almost understand if Anonymous attacked the Government, almost, but Sony? Sony is not sending armed agents to kick down doors in the middle of the night. Sony is an entertainment juggernaut, where is the greater purpose in attacking something that entertains millions of people? Seems like an extreme waste of talent, and energy going after the Sony's of the world. Go after the corrupt governments of the world, or people that prey on children, or anyone for that matter. Sony makes people happy, a sentiment I do not share, but one I can certainly appreciate and relate too. I truly hope for all of you PSN users, that your online passion is sated soon. If fanboyism were more akin to a football rivalry, I would be taking a knee with you, while your teammate was getting his injury looked at.

[Lich120]

Interesting metaphor redge, very well put.

[scotchmouth]

I really liked that last sentence. Well put

[Majinzo]

They should hire L for this job

[Bebedora]

Or N

I dont know if people here know that PSN was running unpatched webserver (apache) and no firewall at all...

No wonder it got hit so hard when attacked. Now that is mindblowing.

[zag]

The web server unpatched and with no firewall doesn't matter much.

because the important data would have been behind a firewall, there more to a network than a webserver.

[Bebedora]

http://www.geek.com/article...

You are probably right there, zag. I just dont know what to think actually was on this server though. Nevertheless, to me security is an important part of any network.

[Lich120]

DoS attacks on web servers is a fairly simple thing since they are inherently open to the public. The actual infiltration would have taken much more than gaining access to a web server. Unless of course the web server was holding very valuable info (which would be ridiculous). I can't actually say since I haven't found much info on what actually happened. However, to save company face one would think their web servers would be running a version of apache that wasn't lousy with holes.

[Hashashin]

@Bebedora

Servers were patched and firewalls were up. Do some googling to check. It's a rumor that they weren't protected.

[Action GO FIGURE]

They're acting on behalf of the consumers yet they steal from the very same consumers. The irony...

For shame Anon, for shame.

[SonyPS360]

They can never really be one independent entity with so many shit munchers out there who can easily claim to be in it.

[ChrisGTR1]

it would suck if they do manage to hack in again. LOL. i wonder how akward thatll be for sony after having just moved there whole network to this more "secure" site.

[SpaceSquirrel]

They should stop already

[crimsonfox]

they should die already

[Pain]

They should just "insert bad language"..

edit~

[younglj01]

wow bs

[fluffydelusions]

Hope not. If it happens again once psn goes up I think some people may just give up on ps3 altogether. I hope these guys Sony hired know their stuff. I am kind of upset I purchased some games right before psn went down and I can't play the online portion still.

[the_best_player]

don't be an online hore

[LastDance]

cry me a river

[kagon01]

More fear mongering for hits...

[MagicGamer]

that's exactly what was said when that Anonymous promises revenge on Sony article was posted here on N4G by the way. Also posted by the same people. But thanks for your moronic opinion.

[Veeger]

The tone their whole statement is written in suggests delusional teenagers with social problems.

[Dsnyder]

Will these people go back to hacking ebaumsworld or someting?

[Cajun Chicken]

Answer; Hack 4chan.

Seriously, this whole Sony debacle situation is probably the beginning of the end for Anonymous, they can't even act as one any more because one party says 'we didn't do it' and blatantly some hacked into Sony and left a message there.

Anonymous is no longer autonomous.

[mastiffchild]

I still can't believe they thought leaving the "we are legion" tagline was cool in any way. Seldom have I seen anything quite so cringeworthy-it's less credible and "cool" than someone being "thuper thereal" on our asses.

[sikbeta]

Nerds aren't cool man and most of their stuffs are laughable or embarrassing for the common people, typical beaten to death kids in school trying to be tough in the anonymity of the internet and screwing everyone else because they have a miserable life... they better stop doing this hacking crap they do just to feel better themselves, stop screwing people and leave us alone enjoying our hobby like we usually do

[BlackTar187]

yea i know its anon or whatever and its everyone and anyone, but it does show as a very weak group of people with no leadership.

Whats sad is they are forcing the hand of the US and world governments to really put into place stricter laws that there all gonna bitch about when they take place.

kind of retarded like anon.

[zag]

Well if they get put on that terrorist group list.

They will be fucked, because that means anyone found or thought to be in that group has all accounts frozen and then you will be hauled into some court and get majorly screwed.

[coryok]

anonymous has become synonymous with douchebag

[sarshelyam]

...Anonymous, or gamercrypt.com for thoroughly burning my retinas!

[southernbanana]

I guess we can atleast rest assured that Sony's networks will eventually have some of the best security around... Continued attacks can only help them combat attacks more effectively in the future... This is my way of finding a positive in the matter.

[Silly gameAr]

Keep playing around. You'll be caught soon. People swore up and down that graf_chokolo couldn't be found or caught. It's only a matter of time.

[zag]

He is fucked big time

He can now forget about settlements etc as shareholders will want him fucked over now and anyone else screwing there money over.

[ronwil42]

yeah and when they chuck u in prison hope they throw away the key

[evrfighter]

honestly, you think someone with their talents will be left to rot?.

these guys successfully infiltrated and brought down a Sony network. they will be used by the government that catches them. in these times where cyber warfare is becoming more of a reality. you can bank on it.

[aGameDeveloper]

Yeah, must be true, 'cause we saw it in a movie.

/s

[ClimateKaren]

Yes, maybe the government will use cryogenics freeze them in case their talents can be of use in the future. Then they will accidentally get freed one day and Sylvester Stallone will have to catch them. Or maybe we'll put bionic parts on them and let them be super-powered soldiers with the ability to infiltrate digital fortresses in seconds.

Seriously, there are plenty of people out there with their talents who aren't criminals. They're the people hired by Sony right now, and the people working for government agencies. There is no need for the government to resort to criminals. Not every person with good aim goes around shooting people.

[zag]

That rarely happens, and only happens for people who have talent with a certain thing the cops can't figure out.

Otherwise it's put in jail and forget about getting out.

Anyone in the USA should be worried about getting life in jail based on the account of people this has.

[Eamon]

The film "Catch me if you can" was based on a true story, right?
The fraud artist was so good the FBI offered him a job.

Meaning it does happen in some situations.

[mrv321]

I think we can all hit the DDoS button.

I mean you don't think the government already has people BETTER than these guys?

[Tired]

I hope they have the anonymous mask permanently welded to their faces...

You like being anonymous...stay that way.

[DelbertGrady]

I hope they succeed so I get to read more of your childish comments.

[mummra08]

duck and cover incoming crap storm attacks on sony will end soon. in the mean time psn users can enjoy the great offline
fetures of there consoles and play great games like mag o sorry i mean portal 2 or mortal kombat who needs online play
least psn users are now safe

[BlackTar187]

is there a point in there or you just really not very good at this internet forum posting kind of thing?

[rockleex]

He's just not very good at life period.

[J@D]

Noooooooo Anonymous is for the wellll gooodddd of the gamers.... there u have ur knights on shining armors. irony isn't?

[Kakasquall]

These guys are really starting to tick me off.

Can't they get over Sony and let the gamers they're "protecting" be?

[xPhearR3dx]

I couldn't think of a better way to test the new code.

[blackburn10]

@ death2smoochie. I am not sure how that is relavent to what we are talking about either. What does that have to do with the PS3 hack? Back on topic. Go ahead jack@$$es keep attacking. The more you do it the more chance they will to find you. Can't believe you could be stupid enough to attack while security firms, FBI and Sony are ready to take down anyone who even puts a foot in to their server unauthorised. Your just adding more charges when you are eventually captured. I hope that your 'test' leads them straight to you. @ Silly gameAr. Yeah every criminal thinks they are unstoppable until they are sitting in a prison cell.

[Tired]

I don't think anyone that was involved with the major attack would be dumb enough to do it so soon.

Maybe get a bunch of vindictive kids to try it...takes the heat off

[Mr Tretton]

Send in the Navy SEALS

[dragon82]

That's not getting old at all.

[Mr Tretton]

Sorry, I haven't been hanging on the internet's every word for the past week.

[dragon82]

Neither have I. But I have seen that exact comment more times than I can count in the last two days.

[THILLREBORN]

All these cats are doing is making it easier for the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security and the two companies Sony hired to track them down. They forget unlike what they say that 40 of there members got snatched up in Feb/Mar time frame. Just wait when these cats get caught everyone will know who they are because this case is global and nationally the cats in congress want to make an example out of these hackers. When the dust settles hackers will know for every crime they commit that they will spend years in prison getting pounded by Bubba.

[BlackTar187]

don't know why you only have 2 bubs.

Bubs to you good post.

[HungPHATx]

Bubbled you up G

[Hashashin]

Bubbles +

[BlackTar187]

why are you guys so sensitive on this forum to report bad language. I mean really bad language grow up

[Led-Zeppelin]

Its like they want the site to be family friendly, when they openly show Mature rated game play at a click of button. Doesn't make sense, its just letters, I don't know how that's offending anybody.

[revengemadmax]

well i've allways known

microsoft are great at software but crap at hardware

sony are great at hardware but awful with software

join together!! and make the playbox 720!

great name btw! i know! so good! oh yeah! i feel that! right there! in there!! oh yeah!

[MagicGamer]

Anonymous needs to let well enough alone!

[Nodoze]

The only thing they are proving is just how juvenile they are. Get over yourselves and get on with something productive.

Pretty sad really. Hacking Sony for a feature that < 1% of the userbase was even taking advantage of.
Thanks for 'representin' Anonymous....what or who you are representing I have no idea. I can tell you it certainly isn't the gamers.

[Christopher]

Only thing this will do is waste the time of others who are trying to find who hacked the system in the first place. Hey, Anon, might want to make sure one of your members didn't suggest this for that reason alone.

[jizzyjones]

If its common knowledge that they are going to do something this weekend, couldn't Sony set some kind of trap and trace it back to those responsible?

[TomInc]

The amount of bad language reports on this post alone illustrates the anger surrounding this whole situation =/ I dont get why it continues, its not benefiting anyone.. even the people Sony "wronged" initially lose out.

[DonnieDarko]

The psn is screwed. As soon as it comes up there are gonna be hackers itching to see if they have what it takes to breach it again. It'll be a challenge they'll relish simply because they know the publicity they'll get and a sense of bragging rights amongst hackers that even with the freshly patched up psn they could still infiltrate it.

[ClimateKaren]

I might agree with you if it wasn't for the huge legal retaliation these attackers are facing right now. If they get caught, I think a hacker in the future with a point to prove would pick somewhere else to breach & brag.

[Ninjamonkey82]

Im at a point where theres no words left for what i feel about these idiots.

[Rettom]

NOBODY CARES ANONYMOUS! YOU FAIL!! You are unable to hack again. I trust Sony when they said their security is top-notch.

[mrcapcom]

run for the hills hackers there is no chance you are getting back in.

[blackburn10]

The saddest part about this is it shows that people like this learn technical skills seemingly at the cost of common sense. It has come to a point where they seem to have forgotten who they are fighting for. Now they are interfering with people's personal life and aggravating gamers. They are risking being sent to prison for a battle that no one asked them to fight. They stooped to blackmail, cyberterrorism, sabotage and identity theft.

And to make things worse these people attack Sony as if it is a single entity. They never think about the jobs that could be lost because of this or the developers who are losing money off of this or the headaches you are giving to the people cleaning up your mess. And for what? Video games? OtherOS? Some stupid 'Sony is evil' campaign. Don't pretend anymore, any of you hackers, that you are doing this for us. Stop the lies. Your doing this for yourselves. Stop pretending you are on a rightous quest and everything you do is justified.

[Romudeth]

I know it's too much to ask but can people please stop giving these Anonymous idiots more publicity? I want them to suffer for what they've done to Sony and it's fanbase as much as anyone but I am sick of seeing their BS posted on a daily basis.

[jay2]

You're a bunch of perfectic T***er's who are just peeing of lagitamate PS3 users.

[Bell Boy]

Hey hackers gamers don't want you, get out of command center(basement) and go play blindfolded in heavy traffic

[kuroukage]

Blacklisting this site. Whoever wrote this is clearly a moron.

[Bell Boy]

lol just noticed I have been seriously hacked of bubbles since this farce started.... It's official N4G is now a hacker supporting site!!

Moderators seriously!!...there can't be any

Seems if you call out thieving scum and their supporters on here your doomed...shame I've been here years but it is currently a total joke site....

Tin helmet on bubble rape incoming

[dmonee]

so much for not going after the "gamers", like they said before the attack.

[dmonee]

And this is also why it is inevitable that the FCC will eventually take control of the internet in America. You know what that means. It means that "Uncle Sam" will be able to control the content that you view and the things you can do with the internet. Hackers are officially the outlaws of the WWW. (Wild Wild West) of the 21st century. Nice going!

[johnmark1982]

just go away you stinking hackers no one cares

[IGAMEHARD]

if it truly wasnt anonymous... they should utilize their skills and become the fourth team in helping sony find the psn hacker...

[th3_d3an]

god so sick of this story already congrats anon all youve accomplished is being a more annoying story than bret favre and lebron james from last summer! honestly hope each and everyone of your members get hit by a speeding semi.

[Scyrus]

r u serious anonymous can u just let us people play, ugggh, wat if sony takes it down for another month so they can make it stronger, seriously bad hackers need to lose their hands so they can stop using the computer

[Ser]

Get bent, griefers.

[Achemki]

Still at it after they said they were done? You mean they lied? Buh buh, how is that possible? Could they have lied about other things too? I'm shocked! /s

On a sidenote, what's with the dorky catchphrases? Who the #$% can say "we are legion" that much with a straight face? Quoting the Exorcist with some "never forgive/never forget" country lyrics makes you teh badd@ss1? Legion of what, Legion of Doom? Hawk and Animal are hackers? "Uhhhh what a rush" ROFL! Treehouse terrorists *facepalm*.

[DavidBanner]

Thank you guys for the attack this makes the brand even stronger ,these things get legislation passed and its free press and brand recognition. The brand will forever be printed in our minds.

[TheRot]

nobody can kill anon

[SpLinT]

Anon better not slip up and get caught. Or else 1 out of a few millions gamers is gonna find them and murder them. That is, unless they arent sent to prison for 20 years. Either way, they wont go unpunished this time. We arent the Westboro Bapist Church . We are more aggressive and have no problem with violent acts. Theyre houses will be burned, their tires slashed (if they even have cars, computers destroyed, etc. We wont be ordering pizzas to their houses. Probably bombs

[Dice01]

Weird, a few weeks ago people were talking so much shit about anon, saying they were pathetic kids that couldn't do shit...this is why I keep my mouth closed, because look where we are now. Two weeks in with psn down and they can probably keep going _-_ I'm getting a gaming pc. Still love my ps3 tho but this is ridiculous. For the most part I think majority of you people that were making assumptions here on n4g about anons being a group of pathetic nerds that couldnt do a damn thing to sony are a bunch of morons. Honestly, screw anons for this bs, but also, screw you morons that were saying anons couldn't be the ones behind this.

This world will always be filled with idiots that make assumptions without actually thinking more into the situation at hand. While all of you morons on n4g sit here and talk shit about anons pointlessly while taking no action or doing anything to actually help sony, I will be keeping my mouth closed until the situation is resolved. Because at the end of the day, calling these people fucking nerds, and pathetic losers and all this other bs cant do anything but fuel the situation everyones already in. Have fun being idiots.

Good luck Sony ^_^.

[Breadisgood]

I'm an Xbox guy myself and don't really like the PS3 too much but these guys are just assholes. Do they not realise how many people they are affecting with this bs? The sad thing is they probably do and just don't care.

I hope you guys get back up and running smoothly soon and hopefully Sony's security will hold up.

[Treyb3yond]

I think it's fair to say that anon have totally wiped themselves out with this little stunt. Not only are they the most hated group on the internet, they have world wide law enforcement searching for them, they have various members hiding and finger pointing at "rouge members" and denying any involvement.

Trust me when I say this will not end well for anon at all. In fact it's already a total disaster for them.

[cpt_kaos]

Yep now that the little kiddies have big brother on there asses they start pointing fingers at each other.

[winlonghorn]

I say it is time for the gamer community to come together, raise $1 million and use it as a bounty on the heads of these pathetic f***s!!

[rezzah]

Here's their chance to secretly instill some virus to take our information while Sony doesn't know!

=O

(Btw I'm not being sarcastic)

[SwampCroc]

Use the power to hack on something more important.... Like say maybe an image of Osama Bin Laden(dead).... why don't you waste your time hacking, trying to expose something like that.... something the world has the right to know...

damn simpletons... ruining it for everyone... they have already been damaged enough by the events in Japan... and now your just throwing it at them over and over...

idiots man.. idiots. wake up "Hackers".... life is more important than SONY.... they give us a way to escape this dull society with the games they make on the PS3... same with any system... they make the games so we can have an outlet from the real world...

use the skills you've spent countless hours refining on something that makes sense... I'm tired of seeing articles about Hackers.... I'm tired of getting "Failed Log-On" Messages.... whatever you think you are going to do to this company doesn't matter in the scheme of things....

use some logic Mr and/or Mrs Hackers.... you're affecting millions for the reasons of what??? Saying you're doing it for "The People"??? I'm pretty sure the people have spoke... and they're telling you to step off....

[theflyindutchman]

seal team six > anonymous

[Dayngls]

OMG "independent cells"?? do these idiots have any idea how ridiculously stupid they sound? its just a bunch of friendless nerd virgins with nothin better to do.

Guy Fawkes fought against political corruption, and he was killed as a result of fighting for his cause. not something silly like an imaginary war against a video game console. dont like sonys products then dont buy or use them.

[theflyindutchman]

We are anonymous We are legion We say we are gamers We have no girl We are virgin We are pathetic We are now held at guantanamo bay We will never see freedom We are going to commit suicide. don't expect us anymore.

Thats the news i want to read

[debian_zac]

While I supported the idea of having linux on a ps3 (not for piracy reasons, I just like tinkering with technology :P), i have to say anon while most of the things they have done have been good, this #opsony stuff really backfired on them. what also seems troubling is that everyone seems to forget about all the wrong things sony(as a coporation) has done against the consumer, like threating to sue abio hobbyist for making custom code for their "pets" or their root kit issue.

Neither party has done purely good things for "the people",

However i trust the modding community to give me more freedom than some corporation.

Now for those who disagree, please tell me why so i can understand the other side of the argument.

[MonopolyRSV]

If they are gonna target someone, why don't they target Microsoft instead?

[Kahvipannu]

I dunno.. Maybe there is no reason enough? Or MS Live is harder to crack.. Hopefully Sony gets theyr services upgraded, that this kind of things won't happen again in the future.

[rage0hh]

i just want find one of the geeky fucks and video my self beating the life out of one of them and post it on their stupid website to warn them, i will find them
>.<

[smartgurl]

Anonymous is not a group so much as an ideology that some hackers align themselves with. Since they seem to act independently to begin with, that's what makes Anon so unpredictable.

[bobtheimpaler]

an ideology. not knowledge or reason. They're still stupid. And fickle- they could be doing more for say, Assange or Manning. But they aren't in the headlines so...

[smartgurl]

If everyone did everything with knowledge or reason, the world would be a much better place.

It's okay to believe in an ideal, as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights and privacy of others. That's why Anonymous' goals are so skewed: The foundation of their belief focuses on targeting others, instead of protecting what they believe in through peaceful means.

[bobtheimpaler]

Dear Anonymous.

You clearly don't understand how the world works. You don't have a particularly sophisticated view of the law or what a company is. You aren't qualified to call Sony corrupt or the system broken. Your position is based on ideology- not knowledge or reason.

Analytically deconstruct a company from a legal, economic, financial, accounting, logistic perspective. You'll find little if any evil- mostly just arrangements that make sense in light of those considerations. The system rightly protects the rights of those who put time, effort, money and risk into making gadgets like the ps3- employees, shareholders and creditors. For their contributions, they have interests -and legal rights. The price of a console doesn't buy consumers rights that override all that.

Sony never promised that the PS3 was going to be an open platform. They were never obligated by law to do so. You may imagine that we have the right to do whatever we want with whatever we buy- not quite. On software, the EULA- you aren't sold the intellectual properties embodied in software- just licensed to use it. We have Microsoft to thank for that particular innovation. On a lot of hardware, there is the DMCA and various equivalents. Circumventing anti-piracy measures for example, is illegal. It may not apply everywhere, but in New Jersey, it most certainly does! We have bodies such as the MPAA and RIAA to thank for that. You probably don't like DRM either- it is there to get content owners on board. Publishers want it.

People were trying to exploit the linux functionality long before it was taken away. Sony are just protecting various stakeholder interests and acting within the law. You don't like them collecting information on others for suspected illegal activity? A court granted them access to visitor logs.

Read up on contract law, the various intellectual property laws, the EULA and that asterisk that says "features and specifications" subject to change. You'll find no one has cheated you. Sony are playing by the rules. Ethics are different- normative. Wishful even.

Attacking the interests of customers? Publishing names and addresses of the children of Sony employees? What do you hope people will do with that? When authorities describe hackers as terrorists, it is normally easy to dismiss such comments as hyperbole. But your actions are no different to attacking anyone that supports a regime you don't like. You don't represent honest, law abiding consumers- they hate you right now. You aren't defending rights anybody else actually has. You are nobody's heroes. Just naive children living in a techno thought-ghetto on a normative plane of existence.

Don't like the law, the way IP laws interact with others, or how interests are balanced? Approach lawmakers. No good reason to single Sony out. Study some business and/or law. Knowledge on technology encompasses toys and infrastructure but little on how/why the world works.

[Mikeyy]

Will somebody take one for the team and kill these fuckers? I mean the FBI and Homeland security are hunting for them already, im sure they will just give you a cookie and let you go.

I will be one pissed SOB if PSN comes back up, ANON attempts to "TEST SECURITY" Claiming it's for the Consumers protection, then SONY takes it all down for another 3 weeks. Eat my ass anon.

[GrumpyVeteran]

Eh, as far as I know anyone can coin the 'anon' name, anon isn't some proper organisation that has a meeting once per month to discuss stuff, anon is pretty much just random hackers who on occasion coordinate some attack.

[Blues Cowboy]

That's right. "Anonymous" is a concept, not a club - and essentially an ideal that anyone can claim to following.

And yet, everyone's treating them like an evil organisation!

[HeroPsychoDreamer]

How about someone hack the hackers and steal their passwords and credit card info. And maybe some pictures of these faceless cowards.

[earbus]

Id be more worried about japan having enough power to run the servers as they just shut a second nuclear plant the poor country is on its knees going to take years to recover perhaps 20 or so.

[jukins]

lol they did it, they didnt do it, we're not responsible for rogue members, everyone is anon, sony lies, we will attack again. lol i hope these guys keep it up. eventually they'll get the focused attention they want. all its takes is the wrong person to get caught who happens to know to much about certain ppl threaten with big time in a dangerous place they talking. only a matter of time

[Blues Cowboy]

Guys, SERIOUSLY, stop deluding yourselves about what Anonymous actually is.

Anonymous is not an organisation. It's not a club. It's just the concept of affecting societal change through hacking - and thus, anyone can claim to be "anonymous." They're not like SPECTRE out of James Bond, for Christ's sake!

Continually labelling "anonymous" as a legion of bogeyman is clouding the issue. The FBI and Sony's data security firms are looking for individuals, not a shadowy evil cabal.

"Anon Ops" is what most of you mean when you say "Anonymous" in this context. This is a smaller (though still organisationally unstable) group of hackers who come up with ideas and disseminate the information to (essentially) random people via IRC and email. Anon Ops were behind the earlier PSN intrusion that was aborted due to negative feedback. They've denied responsibility.

Sorry for the rambling. What I'm trying to say is that we need to focus on individuals with motive, not a fictional organisation that, in practice, is just a disconnected group of unaffiliated hackers.

[Droid Control]

I'm actually ok with the PS3 getting hacked again.

At first i was in denial, then I became angry, now I'm ready to accept that my PS3 will never be hacker free ever again.

I think only a PS4 could stop hackers with secured, closed-network built-in hardware.

[e-p-ayeaH]

If PSN gets hacked again im sorry sony but ill have to do something about it.

[saoco]

SONY,

if you release any information that leads to their location, i promise i'll do the rest.

[Neurotoxin]

On second thoughts i wont write that comment....

[supertails15]

psn user: Why's he running, Dad?
kaz: Because we have to chase him.
psn user: He didn't do anything wrong.
kaz: Because he's the hero PlayStation deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. Anon.

[MechaGear]

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The GUNPOWDER, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why GUNPOWDER treason
Should ever be forgot.

[Cosmo811]

Assholes. Don't they realise nobody agrees with them?

[SuperSaiyan4]

Anonymous! Its really good that they are offering to test Sony's security for free :-) Such a shame usually a company would have to pay for that :-P

[llMurcielagoll]

I guess I am going to have to take out my payment info as soon as PSN is up, and gonna put it back in just to buy stuff and take it out again. May work worth the try.

[Zontar]

what is their goal now? i thought they just wanted to help that geohotz guy and thats been over for 3 weeks.

[Der_Kommandant]

Microsoft has been behind this all along, acting behind the curtains

[violents]

i don't know how this thread keeps going to "Is sony evil or not"? bottom line is sony was protecting theyre copywrited materials, which is well within they're legal rights. The Other OS feature was allowing people to pirate games and the only thing they could do to stop it was take it away. so if you want to be mad at anyone find your friend that was pirating games and punch him in the balls for ruining psn, cause thats how it started. since then it has all been the "Anonomous" group interfering with the average consumers life, all the while claiming to be out fighting for the rights of the average man. Well if you want to fight for my rights..DON'T ASSHOLES. i can do that for myself if i feel that slighted by sony. I did not ask for your help and i dont want it. And now its all coming out that it was all some big ruse so that some jerkoff could try and steal the 40 bucks left in my bank account. HUNT THESE PPL DOWN AND DRAG THEM INTO THE STREET TO BE BEATEN LIKE DOGS.

[JMyers]

Independent cells are a risk? Every cell is independent. There is no formal structure or single goal, even though they all act as if they behave as one collective.

They're random and rouge cyber criminals, even though they claim not to be. I hope they are caught (at least some) and made an example of.

[rrapidron]

I play Everquest and have for 10 yrs-While I admit Sonys service is pathetic and there is practically no ingame help on the pvp server I have a lot of money and time invested in it ( monthly fee-buying expantions ect)
Anon is doing this because they can,its as simple as that!
Here in the states the FBI will track these guys down in time.
Even though I am 60 yrs old I was gaming before a lot of you were even born and enjoy gaming immensely.
Anon if any of you read this post consider this-I get a pretty big kick out of what your are doing and love your videos (yes I watched v for vendetta) but if you are gonna attack people or entities why shut down my favorite game?
Why not use your skills to hunt down child molesters and the like and ruin them !

[magus]

Stop fucking with peoples shit you fucking bastard. I hope you slip up and tell us who you are so i can "anonymously" fuck you up and any one helping you.

[BlueEye]

OH REALLY!? NO! Anonymous isn't a group, its a name a name anyone can go under. The hacker/s who hacked Sony and PSN was maybe "part" of Anonymous and associated with other "members" but decided to hack it himself/themselves or Anonymous was set up.

Either way we can all find the trail of the culprit leads to George Hotz ass, back up a bit and Anonymous reeks of it back up again and....EVERY FUCKING CAPABLE HACKER IS DOING SHIT!

[BLAKHOODe]

Your point has been made Anonymous.. you're good at what you do. But what do you expect is going to happen? Do you really think Sony or anyone is going to give in to your demands? NOT GONNA HAPPEN! EVER! No matter how hard you push.. It will NEVER, EVER HAPPEN! And the more you keep pushing Sony with these hacks, eventually, you're going to screw up and GET BUSTED. That WILL happen! Criminals ALWAYS screw up sooner or later. And yes, you are CRIMINALS. We're reading about PSN's downtime here on N4G now, but one day SOONER than later, PSN will be back online and we'll be reading N4G about how bankrupted Anonymous likes getting butt-raped in JAIL!

[unicron7]

Wow, these asshats are still up to shit? Someone arrest them already. Hey Anon, nobody is on your side. You've managed to piss off millions upon millions of USERS over the course of two weeks. Congrats, you are idiots.

[dkgshiz]

How about these losers get day jobs?

[JeepGamer]

Apparently they're just not done vindicating Sony's pursuit of hackers yet.

Everything was fine. We had OtherOS, we had PSN, we had everything anybody wanted and everyone was happy.

But they couldn't let it be. They had to 'prove' something, particularly when the PS3 confounded them for so long, and what did we finally get once the PS3 was finally cracked?

It's been all downhill ever since.

'Let no one say and say it to yours shame, that all was beauty here until you came.'

[Enigma_2099]

... and they want us to believe they had NOTHING to do with the hacking? You're doing it wrong.

The way to stop trouble is not to cause more trouble. And just suppose they ARE innocent... what's stopping the GUILTY party from causing even more trouble during this little test? And how hard are you going to whine when the finger gets pointed at you again?!?!

Someone had a great idea once... if you're SO 1337, why not help find the REAL people responsible... if it really isn't you, that is...

@steverhude

"i don't know how this thread keeps going to "Is sony evil or not"? bottom line is sony was protecting theyre copywrited materials, which is well within they're legal rights. The Other OS feature was allowing people to pirate games and the only thing they could do to stop it was take it away."

Bad grammar aside, why are there so many people that just ignore this fact? HIS STATEMENT IS FULL OF TYPOS AND IT'S STILL BASIC COMMON SENSE!!!

@350ZRunner

Oh hai... welcome to the Sony Love-in. Did you get your hand stamped?

[SteveSmith]

Why do mods keep flagging good comments? Calling Anonymous scum is not trolling, immature or offensive, they really deserve it!

[hazelamy]

either they're scared, or they have a few sympathisers on staff.

or monotonous* have people reporting anybody who criticises them.
though that would be really petty, which is why i think that's the most likely explanation.

*see below

[hazelamy]

they try to paint themselves as freedom fighter, or some modern day robin hood and his merry men.
but they're proving those claims are as fictional as the movie they got their image from, mind you at least the movie was mildly entertaining.
along with proving what total hypocrites and liars they are they're also starting to sound bloody boring.

from now on as far as i'm concerned, anonymous no longer exists, they've been replaced by monotonous.

you wouldn't do anything to hurt innocent parties? semms you have no intention of sticking to that claim.

you didn't hack the psn, who knows, you're claiming you will hack it, so, you're clearly showing a willingness to perform the act, so who's to say you haven't already done it.

whatever good this group may or may not have done in the past, you're showing you're either, A: terrorists, b: thieves, or C: a bunch of children with a few tools downloaded off the internet and a delusional sense of your own importance.

if your plan was to show sony up as the evil corporation you claim they are, you're doing a pretty fucking pathetic job of it, because right now, compared to you guys they suddenly look a whole lot fucking better.

if you did hack the psn, i'd keep an ear open, is that noise outside your house a neighbour's pet, or the police?
you think they won't find you?
you think they don't have ways of tracking hackers?

one last piece of advice, arms up in the air is the universal signal for "don't shoot, i give up".
i have a feeling it might come in handy soon enough.