PS3 hacked. Again.
Sony's PS3 has been hacked/cracked. Again. Is anyone keeping track?
This time it's the encryption keys, which is nice. Although I can't pretend that I understand much of it, it's probably not all that it's cracked up to be. Geddit?!
Anyhow, this was interesting:
In better news for Sony, a US judge has thrown out a mass lawsuit brought by users of the PlayStation Network, following a huge security breach in May 2011 which saw the user information of 69 million customers exposed. The suit accused Sony of failing to adequately protect information and exposing users to identity theft. Judge Battaglia from the US District Court of Southern California pointed to a clause in the user agreement which noted that "there was no such thing as perfect security" and said that the disclaimers meant there were no grounds for the lawsuits.
We all know that there's no such thing as perfect security. I guess the question that plaintiffs may raise is whether Sony were negligent in storing passwords in the way that they did.