One of three things happened this weekend: Would-be Sony hackers got cold feet, said hackers were bungling incompetents, or CNET’s rush to publish a rumor about another Sony hack attack that didn't materialize was just what it looked like: amplification for anonymous Internet Relay Chat wolf-crying. Lesson learned? Drop by a hacker chat room, posture and swagger, then “tip off” a news source. Presto! Instant gossip churn.
False alarms aside, I’m reading this morning that Sony’s PlayStation Network could be down until the end of May, which—given the start of the outage on April 21—would bring the downtime total to nearly six weeks. Not for the entire network, or at least I assume not given Sony's updates, though biz-watcher MCV’s suggests as much with link bait headline: “PSN likely down for six weeks.” The story references a Bloomberg brief that ran yesterday in which Sony said plans to restart the service fully by May 31 were “unchanged.”
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/227412/
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False alarms aside, I’m reading this morning that Sony’s PlayStation Network could be down until the end of May, which—given the start of the outage on April 21—would bring the downtime total to nearly six weeks. Not for the entire network, or at least I assume not given Sony's updates, though biz-watcher MCV’s suggests as much with link bait headline: “PSN likely down for six weeks.” The story references a Bloomberg brief that ran yesterday in which Sony said plans to restart the service fully by May 31 were “unchanged.”
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/227412/
