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Yesterday, Sony PlayStation suffered from technical errors causing sporadic down time for users attempting to access the website. Or so the manufacture would like you to believe. In response to growing legal action against George “GeoHot” Hotz — the man who jail broke the console in January — the site is actually the target of a group of individuals called Anonymous or Anon. Anonymous chose to engage in digital warfare against Sony after the company started hunting down individuals for “possessing and sharing information, and continue to target those who seek this information.”
Back in August, we published a piece that showed a user bypassing the PlayStation 3’s security protocols allowing him to play InFamous from a USB flash drive. The implication being that the seemingly impenetrable console would soon be jail broken. On January 6, 2011, GeoHot — already famous for unlocking the iPhone — created his own video of the system running homebrew applications on custom firmware v3.55 without the need of any accessories. The PlayStation 3 was officially unlocked. Sony was not amused and started an onslaught of legal actions against GeoHot and other hackers in an attempt to shut the project down.
However, Anonymous — a group of internet programmers or terrorists (depending on who you ask) — believes people who purchase a PlayStation 3 have the right to use the device anyway they see fit including modifying the operating system. The group argues that Sony’s legal action against GeoHot and Alexander is “an unforgivable offense against free speech.” They will do everything in their power to remind Sony that “information is free.” Thus, Operation Payback has begun to roll out with continued distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) on the PlayStation website. These attacks flood the upload and download services of a website making it completely inaccessible. Anonymous believes if Sony chooses to prevent the access of an individual’s private property Sony needs to know how that feels.
Although little is known of Anon or Operation Payback’s next move, it is clear that these attacks are not going to be a one-time thing. They are adamant about protecting people’s rights, and if Sony continues their assault on freedom of speech and information, they will attack with the full force of the internet.
Links: Sony PlayStation | AnonNews
We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
’cause none of us is as cruel as all of us. expect us. always.
a bunch of 12 year olds, eh? Don’t underestimate them.
Why would you think for even a second that Anonymous is a bunch of 12 year olds?
I think he’s probably reflecting on the fact that the main stream media often claims that they are young teenagers. I would not be surprised if many were quite young, but it honestly does not matter. Anon has managed to get the full attention of these large companies, which is pretty impressive.
they’re 12 what is this
Rightfuly so; this could have all been avoided if they’d just kept ‘install other os’ function. DO NOT UPDATE YOUR PS3
It’s a sad time. It was neat when you could play PS2 games on the PS3 and when you could load up Linux. Even if you did not do so, it was great that the hardware was open to more potential. I still have the original PS3 and I hope it does not fail. Unfortunately, I can’t play online without updating.
Even Google is doing the same thing. Android is entirely known for Open Source. Now they are trying to keep the new version of Android 3.0 Honeycomb locked up. Hope these trends end soon.
Hahaha. That wasn’t Anonymous…I would know. Just look at my name.
We are Charlie Sheen.
When these groups attack the playstation network and store, I consider it an attack on me! I want to play my games online. These guys are just a bunch of hypocrites. If they’re trying to help us (the community) then why the hell can’t I get on the playstation network after all this. I feel like they’re screwing me over right now. I hope they all go to jail so I can play online again!
The fact that you can’t use the playstation network at the moment shouldn’t be important. You should be more worried about the trend Sony is trying to set that it’s ok to sell you something, and then quite literally steal it back. The idea that you are in fact not allowed to make your own games/other software unless you pay sony huge licensing fees and that you are not allowed to modify something that you own and paid for.
I think you need to get your priorities straight and think about the bigger picture, if people don’t fight companies that act like this, they will continue to strip away your rights in order to profit. Myself I won’t be going anywhere near any Sony product again, Any company that would steal from me to make a quick buck is not a company I will be doing business with.
Man your a hippie nutter tell me where you live so I can slice you up nice and slow it would make me soooo happy :)
Are you a Sony bot, or a tea partyer?
Big corporations are behaving like Gods as we continue to feed their egos by giving up our rights. One way to reduce their power is to stop buying their products.
We are very sorry for being idiots and apologize to Sony and its fans as for us we will slice our hands off to prove our honour to Sony.
And what about the ppl who actually like the damn thing and like to interect and work with it. Now, i cant cause some lunatic decided HE wanted to have it HIS way… Nice! Looks to me that they blame Sony for something they are themself doing.
I hope this sheds some light on your accusation
http://pastehtml.com/view/1eejiqj.html
hackers are such babies. Most of them will probably wind up working for corporations one day when they’re older. Ha