{"id":11183,"date":"2011-04-08T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"anonymous-gets-personal-with-sony-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11183-anonymous-gets-personal-with-sony-employees","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous gets personal with Sony employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony is at war – and we don’t mean with LG – that’s been resolved<\/a>. We’re also not referring to George Hotz. No, the war we’re talking about is between Sony and a group of anonymous individuals who are so anonymous that they even call themselves Anonymous.<\/p>\n

Anonymous are a group of internet users who have taken it upon themselves to take the fight to Sony for trying to prosecute George Hotz for releasing the security instructions for the PS3 – an act which has allowed millions of people around the world to run unauthorised software on the console, including pirated games and multiplayer hacks.<\/p>\n

Anonymous started by initiating distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks<\/a> against numerous Sony websites – a move which prevented PS3 users from accessing various functions of the PlayStation Network for a brief period. Anonymous responded to the inevitable backlash from gamers by promising that future attacks will not interfere with Sony products or services for end-users.<\/p>\n

Anonymous then promised<\/a> that the DDOS attacks were just the beginning, and that things would be getting worse for Sony soon.<\/p>\n

Well, according to Ars Technica<\/a>, Anonymous is making the attack personal by targeting key Sony employees such as Sony Computer Entertainment boss Jack Tretton. These excerpts were lifted and republished from an Anonymous IRC thread:<\/p>\n

sonyrecon335:<\/strong> Indeed Stalin, I can’t hack–But I know how to manipulate people
<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stalin-chan:<\/strong> hey
<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stalin-chan: <\/strong>thats better than hacking
<\/strong><\/p>\n

D1sc0n3kt:<\/strong> lol sure it is!
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335:<\/strong> I’m going to speak to several companies in the Area,
see if he has ever ordered flowers for his wife etc –
that could lead to a home address.
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335:<\/strong> [Business name redacted] – Foster City, CA, 94404 –
These people have a record of an order placed on February 11th
by a J. Tretton. That’s all I could get.
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335:<\/strong> I’ll give it time, and i’ll get a third party to phone
posing as Tretton.
<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sonyrecon335:<\/strong> Just confirmed the address I have for Tretton with
the previously mentioned Florists – and it matched. We have him
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335:<\/strong> Just ordered a bunch of Pizza’s to be delivered
to Tretton’s house under the name Anon Mous
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335:<\/strong> That’s a little reward to myself for finding the address
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335: <\/strong>About to phone Tretton \ud83d\ude42
<\/strong><\/p>\n

got2b:<\/strong> Haha you’re going to actually do it?
irannaked: got his number?
<\/strong><\/p>\n

got2b:<\/strong> Yeaa : )
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335: <\/strong>for sure
<\/strong><\/p>\n

irannaked:<\/strong> NICE!
<\/strong><\/p>\n

irannaked: <\/strong>ask him why he wants to press charges against geohot
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335: <\/strong>Right, let’s see what he has to say.
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335:<\/strong> ringing him now<\/p>\n

sonyrecon335:<\/strong> Erm the bitch just hung up on me, I assume it was his wife
<\/strong><\/p>\n

sonyrecon335:<\/strong> I asked if Jack was there, she asked who it was
and I said Anonymous<\/p>\n

What do you make of the personal attacks on Sony employees?<\/strong><\/a> << Share your thoughts on the MyGaming forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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