all these assholes could just stop storing everything in cleartext, and the problem would just go away without needing to involve bureaucrats.

This breach is due to the transition from the capable staff at SOE to the new security retards at SNEI. In fact, Shannon Lietz and her entire group should be fired. It has nothing to do with the industries inability to adapt. If that were true, then massive platforms at companies like and google would fail regularly, but they don't. The server architectures and application deployments are practically the same. Bottom line - Sony is an exception, and they are an exceptional fuck up.

So..... they didn't have any internal firewalls prior to this relatively small acquisition?

has college graduation been the equivalent of "training" ? I don't know a single doctor who, even after acquiring their MD would suggest that they are "trained" in a given specialty.

and this place sucks a seriously huge bag of dicks. Wait, they only monitor facebook right?

Seems kinda short sighted to only limit him to talking about PS3 when Sony is so far down the road on the development of a new platform (ie 4)

This will never happen, if only for the reason that the Australians are afraid that we'll start comparing them to the Chinese.

Infoworld story doesn't load on my iPhone. Guess it's a flash site. Classic.

Funny... our government and military installations have arguably the longest history of being extremely bad at information security. We also have the nasty habit of leaking information. Screenshots to follow within 12 months guaranteed.