Originally Posted by
Freyar
Doesn't matter. Point is that this is an external problem caused by people who are doing things they shouldn't be doing. This then turned into a bomb threat made on Smedley's (SOE) flight which now has him stuck in Arizona.
It doesn't matter if Sony's "using something bad" for DDOS mitigation, the fact is that it shouldn't be needed. It sucks for us, but that's all groups that do this kind of thing really want, to annoy the hell out of us.
Since the month-long outage during Sony's security breach in 2011, Sony's become the whipping boy for all sorts of stupid shenanigans. DDOS isn't hacking, it's just flooding and the worst part about it is that despite Blizzard, Riot, Grinding Gear Games, and other studios and/or platforms getting hit by this, Sony still gets the biggest amount of attention from all sides.