In a statement released to Venture Beat, Anonymous has said it wasn’t responsible for the recent attack on the PSN. The hacker group has previously stated that they would resist attacking services which impacted on consumers after a previous DDoS attack led to the network going down briefly and a widespread public backlash from annoyed gamers.
While we are a distributed and decentralized group. Our ‘leadership’ does not condone credit card theft. We are concerned with the erosion of privacy and fair use, the spread of corporate feudalism, the abuse of power and the justifications of executives and leaders who believe themselves immune personally and financially for the actions they undertake in the name of corporations and public office
So it seems that Anonymous would paint themselves as campaigners against corrupt capitalism and champions for civil liberties. That’s an image which is hardly congruent with stealing personal data and credit card information. They also stated that “If a legitimate and honest investigation into credit card theft is conducted, Anonymous will not be found liable” which seems to imply that they feel Sony’s recent statements to the House of Representatives might have unfairly pointed the finger at them.
It would seem highly unlikely that the core Anonymous group is responsible for the PSN-crippling attack and yet, a group which is “distributed and decentralized” will always have peripheral figures claiming affiliation and acting outside of the group’s stated aims. Those are the sort of risks you take when you form a group without any core leadership and allow your name to be used by all.
It’s likely that the file, named “Anonymous”, which Sony have stated that they found on their servers is an act of misdirection, subterfuge or tribute. Whether that stands up is a matter for history to decide but what is clear is that as much as anonymity can help Anonymous’ cause, it may prove difficult for them to deny involvement simply by virtue of the fact that anyone can claim membership.
Source: VentureBeat
sesameseed
I’ll be glad when this whole thing blows over and we can all look forward to the movie!
jayjay119
Considering Anonymous claim themselves as the ‘people acting on behalf of the people’, a Robin Hood for the digital age as it were, I actually do doubt their involvement in this.
rht992
in that case they can hack rich psn accounts and help out poor psn accounts
jayjay119
Yeah…. mine first please!
3shirts
And put his money into mine :)
cam the man
All I want to know is when will PSN be back online.
Dange
*sobs* i just want PSN back up.
Danny-c-2k9
im sick of hearing about it, it isnt funny anymore, just turn the servers on gees…
psychobudgie
I’m fed up to the back teeth with this. Anonymous or ‘the group of 16 year old knobheads’ as I prefer to call them, should be caught, arrested and convicted. They serve nobody other than themselves and are no better than your average virus writer. People that defend them need to buy themselves a clue. The only thing these idiots achieve is the odd screenshot on slashdot or the disruption of your average users day/week/month.
blarty
Yes, we all would like PSN to be backup, but I can cope without it, and I’d rather a couple more days to make more improvements to security than to go around this again in six weeks and have yet another two weeks downtime.
uber-BARBIE
ne ways.what ya think of this guys? fake or real deal? he does seem to have sony contacts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvH82sl6aY0&feature=feedwll
Origami Killer
hackers are hackers, they are sad low lifes, probably abused by their mums, and bought their equipment on their redundancy payout from woolworths, who think its cool of them selves to hack a multi national corporation and steal details, well in fact you are just making your self an even bigger s**t face who will get kicked in the balls by every psn user if they had the chance, i don’t care if Anomonus or however you spell the bloody word didn’t do it as i feel the same about you!! so get a life, get out of your basement, and just stop being a tw@
PS hackers you will always be a virgin
that is how i feel about hackers, now Sony just get PSN back up before i kill somebody
tatoemonkey
I think the stuff around the internet about the psn outage, when the dust has settled, should be put together as a collected works and sold as an incredible cure for insomnia.