Hacker group 'Anonymous' sets sights on Sony
- 04 April, 2011 09:46
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Source: http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/opsony.html
A press release attributed to looseknit cyberactivist group Anonymous has targeted Sony in response to the corporation's legal action against hacker George Hotz (GeoHot) and Alexander Egorenkov (Graf_Chokolo).
Sony has sued developers, including GeoHot and Graf_Chokolo, for successfully jailbreaking the PlayStation 3's firmware and releasing the console's root keys.
A communiqué posted at AnonOps Communications states:
"Congratulations, Sony. You have now received the undivided attention of Anonymous. Your recent legal action against our fellow hackers, GeoHot and Graf_Chokolo, has not only alarmed us, it has been deemed wholly unforgivable. You have abused the judicial system in an attempt to censor information on how your products work. You have victimized your own customers merely for possessing and sharing information, and continue to target every person who seeks this information... Now you will experience the wrath of Anonymous. You saw a hornets nest, and stuck your penises in it."
The release was also posted at AnonNews.
The decentralised nature of Anonymous means it is often difficult to tell how much support an individual "operation" will have until it happens.
Hackers associated with the group have been involved in high profile attacks on security firm HBGary and companies including PayPal and Amazon after they withdrew services from whistleblowing website Wikileaks.
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Comments
Sony Jim
Alexander (Graf_Chokolo) is a decent person who is not doing anything but reinstating the Open source Linux O/S to PS3. He is working hard for no financial gain. He has not pirated anything, he is not a terrorist, he is not a murderer - yet Sony wishes to demonise him.
When large Corporations like Sony with no history for decency try to hurt the public in the way that they have, I believe that it is absolute right and proper to announce open season on Sony Corporation.
For a list of crimes go to Facebook and find the page "Sony Disclosure".
Neej
Blame the freeloading freetards copying software or US legislation pertaining to circumventing copyright IE. DMCA. - not Sony. They're just trying to keep their console locked down.
Even though Hotz and Co. have stated that they wish to have no part in enabling piracy on the PS3 (and, who knows, may not support piracy whatsoever although this is unlikely) the fact remains that the early work by Hotz that predated the full pwning of the PS3 caused the OtherOS (Linux) functionality to be removed - because Sony could see well enough that the attack took advantage of the OtherOS functionality in large part.
So when the more recent attacks happened and the console was busted open (metaphorically speaking) of course Sony is going to do anything they can within the relevant legal framework of the DMCA.
If pirating of software didn't exist then none of this would have happened. If piracy existed but the ridiculous US DMCA legislation wasn't enacted then Sony would have no choice but to suck it up as legally they wouldnt have a leg to stand on.
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