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Anonymous attacks on Sony
« on: April 06, 2011, 02:57:42 am »
http://www.anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=787
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/04/04/anonymous-hackers-bring-down-sony-websites/


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TL;DR: Sony abused the legal system, prosecuting numerous people, Anonymous responds with DDoSing
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2011, 03:01:48 am »
I even kind of think it is fair, it was so nonsense of them to sue everyone who was part of this.
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2011, 03:07:11 am »
And Anonymous wins again. Ten dollars says that Sony tries the courts against Anonymous too, something that they'll inevitably fail at.
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2011, 03:07:34 am »
My personal opinion is that it is fair. Sony abused the legal system for their own corporate greed, and committed quite a few viscous violations of privacy, globally.
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2011, 03:08:56 am »
Frankly, I'm tempted to visit both of their sites now, although I don't even own a PS3. Let them have my IP address. It changes daily (literally).
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2011, 03:32:56 am »
Haha nice. Yeah Sony went very overboard, contrary to what that one person in #omnimaga (who left a while ago) claimed.
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2011, 04:13:21 am »
Quote from: Qwerty.55 on April 06, 2011, 03:08:56 am
Frankly, I'm tempted to visit both of their sites now, although I don't even own a PS3. Let them have my IP address. It changes daily (literally).

You visiting it wouldn't affect much, if you wanted to contribute you'd need to run some programs to do it with, which we'd be better off not going into detail about here.

That being said, it -IS- illegal to do such things, regardless of how justified, so keep that in mind.
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2011, 04:21:02 am »
Yeah true. You gotta be careful if you do that. Also you need to be MANY people to do it, especially such large servers.
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2011, 08:06:02 am »
is Ddosing illegal?
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2011, 09:01:29 am »
I think anonymous works well as a sort of internet justice system.  It keeps the people in check that nobody else will.
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2011, 01:35:32 pm »
Lol some of my friends participated from my school :P

Yep, they ran LOIC on one of the school's computers lol.

Also, note that breaking the PS3 is comparable to breaking the iPhone, but Apple didn't cared, unlike Sony.
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2011, 01:45:55 pm »
Quote from: SirCmpwn on April 06, 2011, 09:01:29 am
I think anonymous works well as a sort of internet justice system.  It keeps the people in check that nobody else will.
That said, they're not always fine, though. I'm glad they often act as an Internet justice system, although it's not as fun when someone sends them on your site to spam the shit out of it (like what happened to Omnimaga on Feb 11th and 12th 2008 and #omnimaga on Feb 11th 2008).

Quote from: juju2143 on April 06, 2011, 01:35:32 pm
Lol some of my friends participated from my school :P

Yep, they ran LOIC on one of the school's computers lol.

Also, note that breaking the PS3 is comparable to breaking the iPhone, but Apple didn't cared, unlike Sony.
Doesn't Apple keep updating the iPhone to block jailbreaks, though?
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2011, 01:46:45 pm »
interesting, guess that's what sony gets x.x
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2011, 01:58:18 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on April 06, 2011, 01:45:55 pm
Quote from: juju2143 on April 06, 2011, 01:35:32 pm
Lol some of my friends participated from my school :P

Yep, they ran LOIC on one of the school's computers lol.

Also, note that breaking the PS3 is comparable to breaking the iPhone, but Apple didn't cared, unlike Sony.
Doesn't Apple keep updating the iPhone to block jailbreaks, though?
Well, yes, they fix their OS for jailbreaks each time an OS is released. But I just found jailbreaking cellphones such as the iPhone is excluded from the DCMA, so Apple can't do anything.
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Re: Anonymous attacks on Sony
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2011, 01:59:37 pm »
Quote from: Netham45 on April 06, 2011, 04:13:21 am
Quote from: Qwerty.55 on April 06, 2011, 03:08:56 am
Frankly, I'm tempted to visit both of their sites now, although I don't even own a PS3. Let them have my IP address. It changes daily (literally).

You visiting it wouldn't affect much, if you wanted to contribute you'd need to run some programs to do it with, which we'd be better off not going into detail about here.

That being said, it -IS- illegal to do such things, regardless of how justified, so keep that in mind.

I know, but the whole point of Anonymous (and American voting in general) is that every individual is insignificant and only the sum total is important.
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