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PSN outage: Anonymous is "disappoint", new revival date and More

Posted on Monday, 9 May 2011 by Speed, source: Bloomberg
Speaking with Bloomberg, spokesperson Shigenori Yoshida said that Sony Entertainment expects to have PSN up and running again by May 31st.
Sony is uncertain when it can resume the services, Yoshida said by phone today.

The company is in the process of adopting an improved security system and its plan to restart the services fully by May 31 is unchanged, he said.
Meanwhile, the hacker group Anonymous, as you probably know, is still being blamed for being responsible for the service being down, and they're getting quite annoyed with it. That's why they've issued a new press release, stating four points that make clear that an article by the Financial Times that was recently posted is complete bollocks, and again making the claim that they've got nothing to do with the whole matter.

They follow with a number of things they blame Sony for, some that have been disproven already (read further below), and the following rather clear message:
Outraged about the blatant coverup and shameful misdeeds, other internet hacker groups will apparently proceed with attacks [9] over Sony's mishandling of the matter. These reactions prove that requesting legislation to cover up corporate crimes and the abuse of law is frowned upon by all online communities, not just the Legion of Anonymous. Apparently Sony will have to learn the hard way that corporate malfeasance will not go unpunished. When the dust settles Sony may have more to fear from a massive class action lawsuit by their user base than the brief actions of the Global Hacker Nerd Brigade, Anonymous... Let THE GAMEs begin. :>
One of the things that have already been proven wrong is the "testimony" from lasy weekend by security expert Dr. Gene Spafford who supposedly said that Sony was running their service on an outdated Apache version.

A Beyond3D member (deathindustrial) checked Google's cache and found out that in fact they were running the latest version. He went digging some further and found the original transcript from the testimony which reads as follows:
I have no information about what protections they had in place, although some news reports indicate that Sony was running software that was badly out of date, and had been warned about that risk.
So his words were speculation at best. Question now is: did or didn't Sony know about the rebug exploit? If yes, this is gross negligence. If no, we can classify that as another rumour that can be burried. Without a doubt we'll be hearing more the coming days/weeks.

I really wonder how Sony is going to try to restore their image.
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