23rd April 2011, 12:33 PM
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Sony's official announcement is some hacker or another is responsible. Well, dandy. I mean I'll give them some credit here, it may be a concerted effort. The internet is full of these sorts so I wouldn't put it past some of them to come up with something pretty dastardly. Still, a major company should be able to defeat just about any hack job fairly easily with a combination of solid server backups, cutting off the responsible IP addresses, and... that's it actually. Did they not do a backup? Usually any company that values up-time could deal with this sort of annoyance within hours, not days.
Sony's official announcement is some hacker or another is responsible. Well, dandy. I mean I'll give them some credit here, it may be a concerted effort. The internet is full of these sorts so I wouldn't put it past some of them to come up with something pretty dastardly. Still, a major company should be able to defeat just about any hack job fairly easily with a combination of solid server backups, cutting off the responsible IP addresses, and... that's it actually. Did they not do a backup? Usually any company that values up-time could deal with this sort of annoyance within hours, not days.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)