{"id":11155,"date":"2011-04-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-04-29T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T07:28:22","slug":"anonymous-hackers-issue-demands-to-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11155-anonymous-hackers-issue-demands-to-sony","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous hackers issue demands to Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drama has been unfolding this week in the form of the <a title=\"Anonymous hacking outfit targeting Sony\" href=\"columns\/11121-Sony-combats-DDoS-attacks-Anonymous-hackers-falter.html\" target=\"_self\">Anonymous hacking outfit targeting Sony<\/a> in retribution for their legal pursuit of PS3 hackers George \u2018GeoHot\u2019 Hotz and Alexander \u2018graf_chokolo\u2019 Egorenkov.<\/p>\n<p>The first strike of their offensive was to use Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against Sony websites, and even affecting the PSN. Sony soon responded by employing the services of anti-DDoS specialists Prolexic \u2013 a move which has mitigated the impact of the assault.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anonymous issues demands<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having made clear that their threats are not just idle, Anonymous has stated that the DDoS offensive was merely an introductory wake up call for Sony, and they should expect things to escalate if their demands are not met. Anonymous\u2019 demands were issued through what has become a trademark video release statement of intent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sony must allow for end-user modification of the PS3, as was available prior to the 3.21 firmware update.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sony must end any attempts to bring legal action to alter a product they own.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sony must not pursue legal action against any collected IP address.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What do you make of Anonymous's demands?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/12387-Hackers-promise-payback-against-Sony\"><strong>What do you make of Anonymous&#8217;s demands?<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Share your thoughts on the MyGaming forum<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"480\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2Tm7UKo4IBc?version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2Tm7UKo4IBc?version=3\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does anonymous want to get out of their hacking offensive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}