bonedome wrote:wow when you thought sony couldn't sink any lower, they go and lower the bar once more and lets face it, the serious hackers are going to be behind gawd knows how many proxies and other ip spoofing software especially now, I've never visited geohotz website but am sorely tempted now, I mean sony are gonna have their work cut out digging through a million ip addresses, dicks
I'm Spartacus
Hi Bonedome, I just want to provide something for everyone to think about.
Sony got permission from a Federal Judge to acquire this information.
By default, this means that all Government Agencies from the FBI and others which some know of and others which have never been made public - together with international agencies and governments - have permission to "assist" in whatever means necessary to compile this information in any manner helpful in completing Sony's legal request. The reason "million's of IP addresses" don't matter is simply because of the level of technology governments and corporations can afford to apply towards their definition of "criminal activity". It's easy to rather see this process as a joke, but it isn't a joke. It's very real especially as a lot of information is gathered by websites as they are required to retain essential information providing proof to those ruling agencies that they are not violating the law in those countries. Especially as many of those countries don't care about "privacy" or "individual rights" (China, Korea, Russia, Japan, to mention but a few) but care more about dynamic and financially enriching website traffic, this is a very different thing where the pressure to cooperate or cease to exist as an internet presence - is very real. Keep in mind that in some governments their view of what is just is determined by how their balance books look, and how their national corporations fare, not how they appear within any scale of "human rights" concerns. If you haven't noticed, the issue of jobs or the lack thereof, is a very, very big deal -- which also drives Sony's lawsuit which is also possibly why the Federal Judge made that decision.
I understand that my presentation of the world isn't pretty or pleasant, but it is better to come to understand that being at the wrong side of many governments and many businesses should raise attention to what one is doing to create such annoyance with one's actions. Consider that it doesn't matter anymore whether it is Geohot, WikiLeaks or anyone else; when the value of products - and make no mistake "secrecy" is a product - which is a different way to understand Sony's argument but it fits - protected information/design and money loose their value a lot of people get very peeved. There will always be anarchists who respect nothing or no one, but be rest assured such persons will be ferreted out one way or another - especially as it no longer matters when everyone is losing money because a handful of persons.
Think about it.
