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Posted on Monday, April 25 @ 16:01:22 Eastern by


"Now, you can believe Sony's PR team which has kept you completely in the dark, or you can see the list of events above and come to your own conclusion."

According to the quote above by poster on Reddit named chesh420, who seems to be a moderator at PSX-Scene.com, the reason for the now five-day shutdown of the Playstation Network is due to an exploit of custom firmware known as Rebug. It essentially gives users the ability to turn a retail console into more or less a dev or debug console (like the ones we have to play PS3 titles before they are released).

Apparently, modders found out that Rebug can be used to allow modded PS3s to hook up to the PlayStation Network through a proxy server and some URL manipulation, as well as send fake credit card information to the network since Sony inherently trusts the dev-specific PSN to be safe. Of course, what happened then is rampant piracy, which Sony always freaks out about and has thus begun to rebuild all of its servers to prevent this runaround.

chesh420 bases this speculation on the fact that Rebug was released March 31, that hacking guides were posted on April 7, that PSN went down April 20, and that a recent patch for the dev PS3s has been released.

Notorious group Anonymous claims that they are not behind this attack.

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  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Apr 25th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
    I feel cheated....
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  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Apr 25th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
    Saw this earlier. Seems like the reason PSN would go down.... All seems why it would stay down. Also sums up the "external intrusion."
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  • nihm
    nihm
    Joined: Jan 2011
    Posted: Apr 25th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
    It's still speculation but it's made from what I think is pretty sound logic. Hopefully Sony will have the PSN up by Tuesday night so I can get the Shift 2 DLC. I doubt it'll be that soon though.
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  • salamandrew
    salamandrew
    Joined: Dec 2010
    Posted: Apr 25th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
    5 day shutdown is still pretty bush league. They are really killing their numbers with all the new nintendo news and lower xbox hate. Seems like alot of bullshit and panicking for something that could have been done with if they just payed attention and stop being little *****es. Sorry for the language
    0 0
  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2
    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Apr 25th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
    See the forum for my speculation.
    0 0
  • Ace55
    Ace55
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: May 13th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
    i hope they get it back online soon.
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