Friday, April 29, 2011

Gamers fuming over Playstation hack

On tuesday the company, Sony Computer Entertainment released that one of their online systems has been hacked into and the personal information of as many as 70 million people may have been stolen. The Sony Playstation Network, used by Sony's Playstation 3 for many online capabilities has been down for over 7 days now and many gamers are angry that Sony did not release this information sooner. Sony claims that they notified the community as soon as they could but apparently for many people that was not soon enough. While it is uncertain if any credit card information was stolen Sony says that they cannot rule out the likelihood of this and they advise anyone who had entered in their credit card information to keep track of their bank statements for illegal activity. Sony expects that their services will continue to be down for as long another week.


5 W's
Who: Hackers, Gamers, Sony staff
What: Personal information
When: April 17-19 and April 26
Where: Worldwide
Why: Someone wanted to hack Sony to steal information

Journalism?
This article cannot be considered journalism. While it is extremely helpful for the 70 million people who use the Playstation 3 system for gaming or watching movies, it is essentially worthless for everyone else. Also, this does not teach  people anything about themselves other than that there are plenty of people looking to scam others. The article fails to make us more self governing. The only journalistic attribute found here is that it informs the rest of the world of dangers such as scamming.

CBTs
In this situation it is very easy to see the CBT of sin. The person or group who has invaded the privacy of so many people shows how depraved man is without the help of God. As a result God has had to create things such as laws to help restrain us from doing wrong to each other and in this case stealing. I hope to see that the people who have hacked Sony are caught but that they are treated justly for their actions.

Read the full article here.

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