I think, at this point you either have to be insanely loyal or pretty clueless to still use PSN. Yet, Sony was saying yesterday that only a small percentage of users are deleting their accounts. What gives?
As a tangent to the article itself, is "THENEXTWEB" a scraper site or content farm?<p>Who the hell ends an article with this sentence?<p><pre><code> If a multi-billion dollar company like Sony can have the
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Do they not have editors? Do they not check what they post after it's posted?
Reseting passwords using email addresses and birthdays.<p>Admittedly, given the information that Sony knows about you, what else could they use to reset passwords that the bad guys don't have?<p>Edit: Wait, reading more of the articles, this exploit doesn't send a password reset email, or similar, to the users; and just allows them to enter a new password? That's ... convenient, but at an enormous cost. I retract my confusion.
Somewhat ironic: PSN HQ is in Redwood Shores, also home to a few high-profile security companies like Qualys, Imperva, and Checkpoint.<p>You'd think that after two successful hacking incidents, the execs would have brought in top-notch security people to get the house in order. (Maybe they thought they did.)
Will someone pull these assholes aside, slap them a couple of times and remind them that they're messing stuff up for the rest of us? Call of Duty multiplayer be damned, every time this happens they're giving those knee-jerk, reactionary geniuses in Washington more rope to hang us all with when it comes to the Internet.