A Brief Defence Of Sony

Ok, save the lynch mob until you've read the whole thing ok...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Sony at all. Losing 75 million users data to a hacker is just amateurish, especially if they had to get in external 'experts' to hold their hands and figure out what happened.

Second, it couldn't have happened to a nicer company, after the debacle with George Hotz and the PS3 hack they kind of deserved to get their arses handed to them on a plate. It's just a shame it was at the cost of 75 million innocents.

But my personal rants are not what this is about.

My gripe is with all these people going 'OMFG, I can't believe Sony stored our names and addresses unencrypted'... To be honest, with a breach on this scale you can have the best encryption algorithm in the world, but if they have access to your servers (I seriously doubt this was a case of SQL injection) chances are they also have access to your encryption keys. And as everyone knows access to your encryption keys = screwed...

Kind of makes me glad I'm a sad, pathetic Wii owner...

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