

Should Sony quit the internet?



Now yet another attack has struck the befuddled company.










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RE: Angry little men
By erple2 on 5/27/2011 1:41:05 AM , Rating: 2
I shudder to say this, but I agree with Reclaimer77. While it's nice and dandy and marvelous to figure out how to "stick it to the man", I am troubled by the swath of innocent destruction that is left in it's wake.

While it may be true that Sony dropped the ball on security, the net result is that there are millions of innocent people who are paying the price. That's unfortunately the pretty crappy part.

Also - civil disobedience last I checked didn't involve kicking the crap out of innocent bystanders. To throw a near-strawman at this, would you support dropping a nuke on, say, Tripoli because you disagreed with the policies of one member of the government there? That's a lot of dead people just to try and take out one or a small group of bad guys.

Do I think that the hackers were pretty clever to do this? Sure, though based on the details of the hack I've learned, it appears that Sony wasn't particularly keen on security. Do I think that taking a bunch of people's information that are in no way associated with Sony (other than they may have purchased a Sony product) is the right way to do it? No. Do I have a better alternative? Also no.

I'm all for sticking it to someone who's a bit high on themselves (stupidity in govt, Sony with it's corporate policies), but don't drag down innocent bystanders in your blaze of glory.

