My father used to keep the PIN number for his credit card on a Post-it note inside his wallet. The note was yellow and adorned by just four numbers. Apparently Sony’s Internet based security isn’t a great deal better as they’ve allowed evil paedophile (or just friendly normal) hacker folk to waltz in and gather up the information of the young and vulnerable children frequenting PlayStation Network.
Just one week ago those children had smiles upon their faces, enjoying the online environment PlayStation Network created. Sony then took the service down, and that smile turned into a frown. I wrote that rhyme earlier whilst creating a clever little ditty about PlayStation Network. I only wrote two lines.
Wait, the service went down one week ago, why am I only just being told that my information may be in the hands of a paedophile could well be a thought you’re thinking. You’d be right to be thinking that, so I hope you are, if you were not you’re an idiot.
Sony would probably say the reason for this is because one week ago they couldn’t be sure personal data had been lost. I’m sure at that point they were hoping that’s the case, turns out losing your users information doesn’t sound very good at the best of times. One week later though, it would now appear they probably should have given people a heads up instead of looking like a colossal bunch of ironing boards for refusing to warn their customers.
Never mind though, as people panic and begin changing passwords to every website they’ve ever created an account on, I’m going to declare I’ve never been the victim of fraud and instead just sit here all nonchalant. Until it all goes horribly wrong, then I’ll run around panicking and have no idea what to do.
Running around and panicking would of course be the least useful thing to do, you can’t use a computer while performing those tasks.