PSN is down

[Seoulstar]

This just better not make me miss the Lightning event..

[Kurosaki1369]

So what's the deal? The PS Network is down until only god knows when?
This totally sucks, didnt this happen a year or two ago and the PSN was down for like a month or something like that!? If that´s the case, that a group of idiot geeks shut the network down, Sony security is crap and i demand some sort of compensation! >

[aerolol]

Yes Sony is really crappy and they have admitted just half an hour ago that there are issues with PS4 and that they are looking into it.

Supposedly.

This is so disgusting. I regret having bought my PS4 and PS Vita.

F***ing Sony doesnt deserve my money.

[Baneus]

I love how the non-tech muppets in here think Sony could do anything about this by simply throwing money at it. The point where the bottle neck is occurring is not in or near Sonys network. The "partners" they talk about when posting about work being done to fix this are the backbone ISP providers. If you're going to get mad at any one - don't. The people behind this would like nothing more than for you to get mad at them. Be like Applejacked, just ignore them or make fun of them (or both), but be a chill bro while you're doing it

[DefendPopPunk]

I love how the non-tech muppets in here think Sony could do anything about this by simply throwing money at it. The point where the bottle neck is occurring is not in or near Sonys network. The "partners" they talk about when posting about work being done to fix this are the backbone ISP providers. If you're going to get mad at any one - don't. The people behind this would like nothing more than for you to get mad at them. Be like Applejacked, just ignore them or make fun of them (or both), but be a chill bro while you're doing it

Some of the fault could lie with sony, though. The person who hacked them said he was able to do so because they allow modded ps4s running custom firmware to log in to PSN. The same group has tried unsuccessfully to do the same to MS's servers but XBL hasn't been reported as having the kind of service outages that PSN users are experiencing. Food for thought.

[WellFooled]

Some of the fault could lie with sony, though. The person who hacked them said he was able to do so because they allow modded ps4s running custom firmware to log in to PSN. The same group has tried unsuccessfully to do the same to MS's servers but XBL hasn't been reported as having the kind of service outages that PSN users are experiencing. Food for thought.

You might be right, but as with anything else, there's no reason for people to be jerks about it. To demand perfection is to demand the impossible.

[DefendPopPunk]

You might be right, but as with anything else, there's no reason for people to be jerks about it. To demand perfection is to demand the impossible.

Agreed about the being a jerk part. It does kind of irk me though that a huge company like Sony, given their track record with handling attacks from hackers, still seems to be less proactive and more reactive when it comes to protecting their servers.

[aerolol]

I love how the non-tech muppets in here think Sony could do anything about this by simply throwing money at it. The point where the bottle neck is occurring is not in or near Sonys network. The "partners" they talk about when posting about work being done to fix this are the backbone ISP providers. If you're going to get mad at any one - don't. The people behind this would like nothing more than for you to get mad at them. Be like Applejacked, just ignore them or make fun of them (or both), but be a chill bro while you're doing it

you seem like the non-tech one
18 hours is MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME to fix anything done by wanna-be hackers.
Any random small company with an IT team (or maybe even just an IT guy) should be able to fix this in less than 8 hours.
Sony is one of the biggest companies in the world and has hardware with embed software that requires their network fully working in order to have the hardware being minimally functional.
There is no excuse for the b/s of " ow it's not on sony network ". They should have been prepared for that DDOS. If not, they should have been prepared to RECOVER from that.
As it stands, neither is the case, which is way I regret having spent money on Sony crappy products.

[WellFooled]

Agreed about the being a jerk part. It does kind of irk me though that a huge company like Sony, given their track record with handling attacks from hackers, still seems to be less proactive and more reactive when it comes to protecting their servers.

We don't know what's going on behind the scenes though. I'm sure what measures they use stop lots of attacks, we just only hear about it when one gets through. Its like being in the lawn care business and mowing a yard of grass, but you miss one and that's the one that the client chooses to notice and not the hundreds of thousands that you perfectly cut.

[SirianGage]

The same ppl that DDOS'ed PSN have been talking about DDOS'ing SE just an FYI. It was stated in one of their threads on twitter.

I really really am hoping that this A) does not happen, and B) that SE is ready in case something like this does happen