Sony’s Got Some ‘Splainin’ To Do
If you consider yourself fairly technologically “tuned-in” then I’m sure you’re well aware of last week’s Amazonocalypse (or as I like to call it, “the day the internet died”). Though I am by absolutely no means a man of the techno-scholarly nature, from what I can glean out of the confusing techno-babble is that Amazon cloud services has a direct tie to a surprisingly large number of website servers, and when it went down last week it was like taking out part of a building’s foundation. Except replace the word “building” in that last sentence with “the internet”.
A few days later, however, and everything’s back to sunshine and cat memes…with one notable exception. PSN, the Playstation 3’s online gaming, internet and market service (otherwise known as the lynchpin of their product) is still down. Initially it was believed to have been brought down for the same reasons as the rest of the internet last week, but as of this writing it is still currently down.
But, it’s understandable right? I mean do YOU know how an international server database works? I didn’t think so. And with a program of such complexity you can give them a bit of lee-way when it comes to something out of their control exploding in catastrophic fashion. However, that seems to no longer be the story that’s coming out of the Sony Press pipeline…
As of a recent interview with PC World, Sony reps were blaming the continued service outage on “an external intrusion” into the network, and were currently working as hard as they could to rebuild and strengthen their network’s defenses and insure a repeat offense like this would never occur.
When I hear the words “strengthen our network’s defenses against attack” this is the image that comes to my mind
Oh, but I’m forgetting the best part, with a little tidbit that actually has me sweating and pacing. Sony isn’t certain that the private information of PSN users wasn’t compromised during this “outside intrusion to their network”. If you’ve ever bought something off of PSN, then congratulations! Your credit card information may now be compromised!
Christ, Sony. Je, sus, CHRIST. They’re going to need to do a lot of damage control before this fire’s been put out, and I don’t think Kevin Butler doing another show and dance is going to solve the problem this time.
Though if anyone could see Sony out of these troubled times, it’s The Butler…
