Re: [Audyssey] A Sighted view on "Bridging the Gap".

[Yohandy]

You make a great point. The biggest company can fall to such an attack. Take 
Sony for instance. it was hacked about a month ago, and it's still 
recovering. as of this writing, the log-in pages are still under 
maintanence. This wasn't a simple attack either. All users with PSN accounts 
were victimized. our info was stolen, and not even Sony knows how bad it 
really was. to make things even worse, many users use the same passwords on 
many different services. so their entire identity could've been compromized. 
We're talking here of a playerbase of millions. Imagine millions of 
creditcards in the hands of a hacker or group of hackers? Every single PSN 
user with a credit card was offered a free year of All Clear ID Plus free of 
charge. Sony's reputation is now being questioned by many, including 
congress. But what people don't realize is that any company can fall to such 
an attack. Happened to Nintendo a few weeks ago, although not much damage 
was done. And if these cyber terrorissts want to go after Microsoft as well, 
not many can stop them. I know I probably come across as paranoid, but be 
careful with your info guys. Even banks, and the FBI have been hacked in the 
past. Nothing's safe when it comes to online threats. best we can do is to 
be on top of things, and use different passwords for all our accounts. Just 
last night for example, netflix went down. everyone kept getting a cannot 
display webpage error. we still don't know what's going on. Since netflix 
essentially increased prices about a week ago, everyone thinks it was a 
rebellious attack by anonymous or some other vigelanty group. All I know is 
they'd better compensate paying customers or they'll risk losing many of us. 
Blockbuster's already made their move to sway us lol. I got a 1 month free 
trial, 2 discs at a time activated this morning haha. They fight, we save. 
sounds good to me!


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