I think what this whole Anonymous situation is saying is that you don't need to be an elite hacker to break into a website with top secret information on it. All you really need is a set of instructions a lemur could follow.

It doesn't matter that Anonymous isn't sophisticated, what matters is that they're effective.

No. No he wasn't. Not by a long shot. In fact, the idea is so foreign to the truth that I can't even fathom what could possibly make you think that.

Enjoy your life sir, I'm not getting into this argument with you.

Ronald Reagan + George W Bush.

He didn't say which or in what order but those are the two.

JD's sausages also cause other people to die on his terms too.

Seriously, I was about to write that I doubt highly that CEOs and corrupt government officials are the ones coding the firewalls and preventing SQL injections.

And yet, they keep breaking into the private and customer information for banks, global corporations, governments, etc. etc.!

I'm awfully grateful for lulzsec revealing to the world that all it takes is a group of incompetent, misinformed and illiterate fools to cause billions of dollars worth of damage, destroy the credibility and security of world governments and established institutions and reveal the private information for millions of individuals.

I can't wait to see what competent, informed and literate fools with government backing can do to countries and companies when they decide that destroying a country's economy is more effective then paying billions of dollars to blow shit up.

Take away the precious welfare entitlement programs, some people will die of hunger, die from lack of medical care or lose their homes. Take away the American Military's budget, the imperialism will end and some people will live because there won't be hellfire missiles landing on their house instead of a terrorist enclave. 2001-2008, the debt ceiling was lifted 14 times. 3 years into the first term of Barack Obama, they want to lift it once while finding ways to reduce the spending deficit. I call bullshit on false equivalency.

I'm interested in getting in on this. I have to change my damn credit card now and my company is charging me $5. That's as much as a PSone game which I purchased and now is a liability.

That's right because you can blame them for being under an external attack. One that Microsoft is COMPLETELY immune from. If this however, turns out to be an attempt to revamp security as a method to prevent console modding, I will be the first one with the torch and pitchfork.

Fair enough, dumb was the wrong word. Sorry. Woefully willing to shell out cash for features which Sony can't reproduce because Microsoft doesn't want to give up its cash cow, is better verbage.

Not the person who has been using PSN free of charge since 2008. Namely, me.

All of which amount to 50 dollars of value before they allow you to buy anything. I hope you enjoy it. I'm enjoying my PS3 exclusive games which work sans PSN just fine.

Naturally, everyone was pleased when Microsoft reimbursed their users for the downtime of their service which they paid for. Right?

You're right. I forgot all about that. Totally worth 50 dollars a year for the privilege for paying more for those games.

That's absolutely batshit retarded. PSN is a robust user network which has had extremely low problems in the past and has the entire finances of SCEA behind it. The only thing Xbox LIVE gives you over PSN is cross game voice chat and users dumb enough to pay 50 a year for the service. That's like saying that VISA didn't have enough finances behind it to avoid ANONYMOUS's attacks.