Yeah, it would have been so easy to have a redundant back-up for the hardware of the entire global network, but with the updated security measures already pre-installed before the attack on the unsecured network even began!
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PSN got hacked...and is still down.
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That's not even what I was talking about. I was referring to a generalised update process - the one they were denying was possible without days of downtime, and that every other online service doesn't seem to have the same problems with for that very reason. Live's infrastructure gets big updates all the time, it doesn't mean they have to take the whole thing down, update it, then bring it back online again. They have the updated server-side stuff ready to go and just flick the switch. Down time only occurs when something goes wrong or some aspect of the update process makes it unavoidable.
I don't really understand why any large service has major outages for maintenance unless there are massive security flaws that they want to avoid until the whole system is updated. It seems to me that Steam ought to be able to take one node down, fix a bunch of issues, and then replicate it to each server so that only two servers are down at any given time and everything else is up. They could even make it so that if your content server is down for some reason, it automatically bumps you over to a different content server.
PSN not having an upgrade path is all kinds of horrible. Even the small company I worked at last year had redundant backups for upgrading.
PSN not having an upgrade path is all kinds of horrible. Even the small company I worked at last year had redundant backups for upgrading.
Apparently in the last ten days, twice as many Ps3s have been traded into stores than the entire of last month.
Half of them have been traded in for 360s.
Half of them have been traded in for 360s.
Instead of trade the thing in, here are 3 things they could have done.
1. Put in fake information(I did this)
2. Use prepaid cards(I will probably start doing this)
3. Use a fake email address to register
They can't play online and there is really no telling when they will be able to. On the other hand, 360 has many of the same games and CAN be played online as we speak.
Not PSN related, but it is still about these Anon jerkoffs
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Hacktivist-Anonymous-Eidos-montreal-Deus-Ex-Blackhatcat,news-11191.html
Why do people support these degenerates again?
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Hacktivist-Anonymous-Eidos-montreal-Deus-Ex-Blackhatcat,news-11191.html
Why do people support these degenerates again?
The thing with Anonymous is, there is no fixed group you can evaluate if they are in line with your morals or not.
Anonymous did the DDOS on the PSN.
Anonymous did the hilarious Scientology protests.
And yet you will run into problems figuring out if there's even a single person who took part in both.
It honestly doesn't matter, to be honest. It's absolutely ridiculous that these companies have such bad security, such terrible policies and procedures when it comes to this stuff. Regardless of who executed the attack on Sony or Eidos, you can't just blame someone else. Their network was insecure and caused the problem. It is 100% their fault, if not 110%.
The one commenter hit the nail on the head...any developer who puts their source code on the same server/network as their public web page is just begging to get hacked.
I'd have to agree, that is pretty damned stupid.
Edit: As an example, at work, all of our source and assets is on an internal network - it's not even accessible via the web...
Edit: As an example, at work, all of our source and assets is on an internal network - it's not even accessible via the web...
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