since wednesday,wtf! i'm going nuts!!!

[WasntMe]

Relax Bro. In the big picture, it's only a little while without online gaming. Annoying? possibly, but it's a free service and it's bound to be down from time to time.

As far as how long it will be down ... I would not waste your time waiting by your PS3 this weekend or even this week.

Ever since GeoHot (same NJ kid who originally jailbroke the iPhone) released the original root code to the public there has been ongoing problems. The worst of which is security of personal user information. Sony is a VERY large and diverse company and thankfully they take our security pretty seriously.
Think about it ...
1. they just had a 3 major title release of which all have online content. (loss of sales)
2. they lose out on music & movie rentals, Netflix kick backs, game upgrades & expansions, etc. .. all PSN related revenue over a mostly world wide extended holiday weekend.
3. potential reputation loss and making customers angry.
Knowing these things they still chose to completely shut down and disable the PSN to protect any potential personal info leaks since they were being hacked and having issues with controlling it.

This is not a simple new spark plug and some duct tape type of fix they need to do. They are actually having to scrap the old PSN and completely rebuild, from the ground code up, a completely new server network to be able to increases the security. This will take time, especially considering this was unscheduled and having to start on a religious holiday weekend that, I'm sure, a lot of people had off.

If I had to guess, 10 to 15 days would be a fairly realistic minimum outage time. It could even take more.

That being said: I hope they take their time with it ... "dot all the I's and cross all the T's" as opposed to rushing to get it done and having more security flaws in the new network.

Honestly, online gaming is not going away and our game discs don't magically disappear ... so when it's back online it's back online. No big deal. In the meantime we should go out and enjoy some fresh air ... plant an outdoor patch and thank Sony for at least caring to protect our info.


If you want to stay up to date with any this and other playstation hacking related news, or just say hi to GeoHot and other "(in)famous" hackers, you can find it here:
https://psx-scene.com/forums/cmps_index.php
https://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/psn-t...ound-up-85343/

Latest Update for PSN/Qriocity Services
Posted by Patrick Seybold // Sr. Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media

We sincerely regret that PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been suspended, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online. Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network infrastructure. Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security.

We thank you for your patience to date and ask for a little more while we move towards completion of this project. We will continue to give you updates as they become available.

[slackx]

what does apples iphone have to do with sonys network...you can't even install the linux source code on any new ps3's because there is no mode for it...so pretty much they already solved that problem with any source code issues.

even so what would be hackable? Just confused at the whole thing educate me

shitty was gna play here soon

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

Guy hacks PS3, Sony gets pissed off and goes after him, Anonymous (4Chan) gets pissed off and attacks the PS network. Go complain on 4Chan about it

thanks wasn't me,this still blows though,call of duty is the only way i have to pass the time since in stuck indoors most of the time(back roblems) and i'm just wanting to to do somthing except look at the walls

[Bobby Stainless]

Books are fun to read.

then go read one yourself. You can watch history channel instead. If we dont learn from history channel then we will be doomed to repeat history channel.

[smokefrogg]

there's something much larger than playing games going on here

sony should never have sold the product with OTHER OS as a major selling point and then all of a sudden decide to wipe it out with a firmware update. do you have any idea how much of a pain in the ass this has made things for folks like certain sysadmins in the air force?

the ps3 was once an affordable building block on the road to creating a true super computer, it was marketed with other os capability which allowed this, sony are the ass hole problem causers here

shit man, this, the root kits they were loading on hundreds of thousands of pcs a few years ago through their drm infested music cds, shutting down folks like liksang.com electronics exporters, i really don't like them at all

sorry man, i'm glad psn is down, i hope it stays down for the count and more of their services go down, i hope their internal networks are compromised and they are severely weakened, i hope they realize through loss of revenue that they are doing it wrong with their legal SUE SUE SUE knee jerk reactions

sony is killing innovation

lol, for a good laugh, read about the aibo robotic dog debacle, sony is a bunch of bully assholes, all of this is warranted and well beyond it's time

"oh their not hurting sony, their hurting the end users!!!" some might say, well shit man, collateral damage, sometimes if you're chopping out tumors you might chop out some good cells along with it. this is much larger than anyone's little video game entertainment nonsense

time for coffee and a bowl *rant!*

[WasntMe]

Originally Posted by slackx

what does apples iphone have to do with sonys network...you can't even install the linux source code on any new ps3's because there is no mode for it...so pretty much they already solved that problem with any source code issues.

even so what would be hackable? Just confused at the whole thing educate me

Hey slackx,
It's not about the linux capabilities it's about the root code and their security capabilities. The root code is the stepping stone need to open up the capabilities of the system. Unfortunately, it also leads to game hacking, piracy and can leave user info vulnerable.
Here is some of the background info you are looking for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz