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Posted on Thursday, May 5 @ 10:34:12 Eastern by


In Sony's lengthy response to Congress, the company provided supposed evidence that Anonymous was responsible for hacking into Sony Online Entertainment's servers. They claim that one of the files on the server was named "Anonymous" with the phrase "We Are Legion."

But Anonymous, via a press release, explains that Sony is full of it:

Anonymous has never been known to have engaged in credit card theft. Public support is not gained by stealing credit card info and personal identities. We are trying to fight criminal activities by corporations and governments, not steal credit cards.

I'm not sure if Anonymous is the best practitioner of "gaining public support", but who can we believe at this point? This could be a flat-out fabrication by Sony, or this could just be more Anonymous shenanigans.

Actually, I believe that this mysterious "Anonymous" file is a red herring planted by third-party hackers as a convenient decoy. I don't even think Anonymous would be dumb enough to leave an electronic paper trail as obvious as that.

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  • Masterwabbit
    Masterwabbit
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: May 5th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
    Sony lying to Congress?

    Congress? Under Oath (or so I think)?

    As if they weren't in enough trouble already. If that were true, HOOO boy, bring on the popcorn and watch the fireworks.
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  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: May 5th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
    I still do NOT want to get involves in this. Too much trouble from either sony fanboys or anonymous people. But hey, i love some good brawl... *shares popcorn with Masterwabbit*

    Though i do admit i agree with Nick here, that all this doesn't sound like anonymous motive to steal credit cards. I mean, they are not Hollywood villains, just a bunch of star trek nerds living in their mom's basement complaining about sonic games. I think it's sony trying to pass the blame to someone everyone hates... which will make anonymous retaliate again. Ooooooh boy....
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  • Nick_Tan
    Nick_Tan
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: May 5th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
    @Masterwabbit: Again, it would be precarious for Sony to lie to Congress about anything. I think they're just reporting what they have discovered. The question is whether the evidence they found is legitimate.
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  • warmaster670
    warmaster670
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: May 5th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
    its completely plausible neither is lying, i know given recent events if i were to hack sony i would leave behind "evidence" that another group performed the task.
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  • usaglory
    usaglory
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: May 5th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
    Maybe Sony should hire Anonymous to track down the people that brought down their network since apparently their own techies are not doing their job.
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