After putting out an open call on Twitter for an interview, VG247 was contacted by a member of hacktivist collective Anonymous, who spoke with the site about the recent PlayStation Network security breach.
Saying that he “cannot speak for Anonymous, or as Anonymous, but I can speak as Anon,” the unnamed person explains his frustration with PSN users’ responses to the action and their lack of appreciation for the real issues behind it.
“Our intention with our initial attacks on the PSN was that of a sit-in, preventing traffic to their service in order to protest their actions. We didn’t want to piss off the consumers as they were the ones whose rights we were campaigning for. Sony were removing true ownership of the console, as well as prosecuting hackers, and we were trying to spread this information to the consumers,” he says.
“Instead of listening or reading what our cause was they just became butthurt. Their annoyance is understandable, but their actions were selfish as they cared more about immediate pleasure receival [sic] than they did about their rights as a consumer (and the rights of the hacker).”
Of course, those same people also cared about their personal and financial data being leaked over the internet, but apparently that’s irrelevant or something.
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