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* Sony blamed the massive Playstation Network outage of April 2011 on a \
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* Sony blamed the massive Playstation Network outage of April 2011 on a \\\"external intrusion.\\\" How did this happen? Sony was running a version of Apache with known vulnerabilities for two months.
** It gets worse: \\\'\\\'\\\'Eighty million\\\'\\\'\\\' names, addresses, birthdates and hashed passwords were stolen, it seems the PSN servers stored them all in plain text. They transmitted credit card details using HTTP GET (that is, directly in the url). Unencrypted.
** [=StarForce=] doesn\\\'t have a very good track record when it comes to DRM in the first place: When people were complaining about how shoddy it was, how easy it was to bypass, and how very many [=OSes=] it had destroyed, one [=StarForce=] employee responded that the product prevented piracy \\\'\\\'by providing a link to a torrent for Galactic Civilizations 2\\\'\\\', a game that doesn\\\'t have any DRM measures in place. Video game media quite accurately pointed out that [=StarForce=] was running a protection racket: protect your games with our DRM, or we\\\'ll point people to pirated copies of your game (the employee in question was reprimanded and the company disavowed his actions, but it did not help the company\\\'s standing at that particular time).
** It gets worse: \\\'\\\'\\\'Eighty million\\\'\\\'\\\' names, addresses, birthdates and hashed passwords were stolen, it seems the PSN servers stored them all in plain text. They transmitted credit card details using HTTP GET (that is, directly in the url). Unencrypted.
** [=StarForce=] doesn\\\'t have a very good track record when it comes to DRM in the first place: When people were complaining about how shoddy it was, how easy it was to bypass, and how very many [=OSes=] it had destroyed, one [=StarForce=] employee responded that the product prevented piracy \\\'\\\'by providing a link to a torrent for Galactic Civilizations 2\\\'\\\', a game that doesn\\\'t have any DRM measures in place. Video game media quite accurately pointed out that [=StarForce=] was running a protection racket: protect your games with our DRM, or we\\\'ll point people to pirated copies of your game (the employee in question was reprimanded and the company disavowed his actions, but it did not help the company\\\'s standing at that particular time).
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These are not programming errors, they\'re just stupidity so I moved them.
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These are not programming errors, they\\\'re just stupidity so I moved them here. Feel free to put em back if you disagree.
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* Sony blamed the massive Playstation Network outage of April 2011 on a \
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* Sony blamed the massive Playstation Network outage of April 2011 on a \\\"external intrusion.\\\" How did this happen? Sony was running a version of Apache with known vulnerabilities for two months.
** It gets worse: \\\'\\\'\\\'Eighty million\\\'\\\'\\\' names, addresses, birthdates and hashed passwords were stolen, it seems the PSN servers stored them all in plain text. They transmitted credit card details using HTTP GET (that is, directly in the url). Unencrypted.
** It gets worse: \\\'\\\'\\\'Eighty million\\\'\\\'\\\' names, addresses, birthdates and hashed passwords were stolen, it seems the PSN servers stored them all in plain text. They transmitted credit card details using HTTP GET (that is, directly in the url). Unencrypted.
