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Weekend Confirmed Episode 58
by Garnett Lee, Apr 29, 2011 11:00am PDTThis week Christian Spicer joins Jeff and Garnett on the show and they waste no time getting into the games. Well, okay, there might be a little NBA and NHL playoffs talk but then it's right on to Rage, Portal 2, Dragon Age 2 (Jeff finished it with 65 hours on the clock), and more. Of course, the big news of user data getting stolen from the PlayStation Network gets plenty of discussion as does the confirmation from Nintendo that a new console will indeed debut at E3. When Finishing Moves wraps it all up, the time has flown by.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 58: 04/29/2011
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- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 1: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:32:40
- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 2: Start: 00:33:14 End: 01:03:48
- The Warning: Start: 01:04:56 End: 01:38:16
- Featured Music "2.2 Cherry Blossom [The Fire]" by the Velvet Chameleon: 01:38:16 End: 01:41:30
- Front Page news: Start: 01:41:30 End: 02:22:22
Vancouver, BC rockers The Velvet Chameleon contributed this week's featured track "2.2 Cherry Blossom [The Fire]." They describe themselves as, "a little out-of-the box like Radiohead, mixed in with the classic rock virility of Led Zep". Their self-produced EP at can be had on the band's Facebook or twitter.
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Comments
I think it's fair to say many people share passwords between services when they shouldn't. This demonstrates why you shouldn't. I can say that wrt to passwords, this intrusion doesn't mean much to me personally because for important services I ALWAYS use a unique non-shared password. Saying that doesn't make me an apologist, it makes me someone with a clue. If you're crambling to change passwords all over the place, it's because YOU did something wrong. Yes, many other people did too, doesn't change a thing. Own up.
Secondly, if you're penetrated, the right thing to do IS to take in outside expertise. You were penetrated. You need fresh and INDEPENDENT eyes. What if it was an inside job? Want the culprit to investigate himself?
Clearly they've had lax security practices and probably didn't have the appropriate logging and traceability that you want and need to get a jump on things like this. Maybe they even fuck up password storage, haven't been able to confirm whether or not they got away with passwords or salts+hashes. Potentially the biggest fuck up is if they got away with CCs.
HOWEVER, all that said; the password SHOULDN'T be a HUGE thing, and taking in outside expertise is absolutely the right thing to do.
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I guess you create a big scare but isn't that Sony's problem? The alternative is not telling people until you're sure, and then you get in the situation they're in....which doesn't seem a whole lot better. (it also comes with the added benefit of if nothing got stolen, you can blow it off.)
I'm just not sure why a consumer should be concerned with the rules of PR management when it's their personal information on the line.
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