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dreamsharkIt did not occur to me that by choosing to use a PS3 to connect my TV to streaming Netflix that I would be multiplying my network connectivity failures. I guess I thought that the PS3 was giving me a simple pass-through to my ISP. But no, you have to connect to the PS3 network first and they handle (badly) the connection to the Netflix network. So even in the best of times, Netflix connectivity is a little iffy. Sometimes it takes a couple of minutes to make the connection, and sometimes it just can't connect at all, even though the PS3 network and the Netflix network are both individually reachable.
But this! I had no idea that the Playstation Network was this badly administered! Not only did they let themselves get so badly hacked that they had to shut the entire multinational network down for over a week - now they are saying that the hackers may have somehow gotten access to account passwords? WTF?? Who keeps account passwords lying around in clear text??? I thought passwords were only stored in encrypted form!
So now I have to start double-checking the credit card account that I associated with my PSN account, I have to change my clever and memorable password. And I still have no streaming Netflix. Grrrrr.
But this! I had no idea that the Playstation Network was this badly administered! Not only did they let themselves get so badly hacked that they had to shut the entire multinational network down for over a week - now they are saying that the hackers may have somehow gotten access to account passwords? WTF?? Who keeps account passwords lying around in clear text??? I thought passwords were only stored in encrypted form!
So now I have to start double-checking the credit card account that I associated with my PSN account, I have to change my clever and memorable password. And I still have no streaming Netflix. Grrrrr.
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Date: 2011-04-27 05:18 pm (UTC)(I haven't tried it myself yet.)
In addition to all the other angry-making aspects of this downtime, though, I can't link my PSN and Steam accounts so I can install Portal 2 on my computer (the PS3 version comes with a free Steam key for it, but the key doesn't work until you've linked your accounts). Frustrating!
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Date: 2011-04-27 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-27 05:41 pm (UTC)eta: Roku has HD boxes now for $100; I considered getting a new Roku for the Winter Holidays. http://www.roku.com/roku-products
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Date: 2011-04-27 06:04 pm (UTC)Aha! It's a conspiracy!
Date: 2011-04-27 06:07 pm (UTC)But on a serious note, it is a bit frustrating. I'm willing to bet it has nothing to do with the hackers being blamed and is probably a part of the ubiquitous monitoring of services that is going on in the world right now; censored/closed websites, cellphone tracking, cops being allowed to upload your cellphone data for a traffic stop, the take down of analog television/radio signals to make people buy a box that monitors what they watch, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony was being made to be a part of this world policing system. This is likely already going on with x-box and nintendo. The PS3 has been stated as being difficult to program for, so an account voyeur code may be more difficult to squeeze into the system. IMHO
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Date: 2011-04-27 07:22 pm (UTC)So far as the encryption issue goes, of course they should be encrypted, but it could be that they WERE stored encrypted and the attackers sniffed the passwords off the wire every time the playstations connect. They could have been weakly encrypted and cracked. They could have been strongly encrypted and had weak internal key management. Odds are that we will never know... so all we can do is make sure that we don't share passwords.