Welcome to the first blog of Technical Gaming!
As a PS3 owner, I only see fit that I discuss the security disaster that is the Playstation Network!
A week or so ago, Sony announced the "Welcome back" program after the devastating attack on their servers and PSN infrastructure, resulting in the network being taken down for investigations and repairs.
The "Welcome back" scheme is said to contain 1 free month membership to Playstation Plus and of recent rumours the PSN users are also to receive a free year of identity theft protection and for us European gamers a choice of 2 free games out of a specific selection (Not sure if this also applies to the states, etc.)
Awesome, right?
I don't know about you lot, but I'm the type of person that shreds any important letters and if the moments right, burn those pieces of potential money-loss! Yes, you may say i'm slightly paranoid, but that's the world we live in, people can turn a small bit of data and turn it into destructive information (being a computer forensics student, I only know this too well.)
So, is a month of a service I won't use, two games that I won't play and identity theft protection that I won't sign up to worth losing my personal information over you ask? Hell NO!
I'd love to hear your thoughts. Are you happy with what you're getting? If not, what do you want to see Sony offer us? Or any general thoughts about PSN.
Thank you for reading!
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I personally believe that sony are just going to be trying to make up numbers and disguising it as them being generous, no doubt they will expect a certain %age who currently don't have playstation plus to re-new it after the month is over. and no doubt have other dealings with the fraud protection service.
ReplyDeleteI understand that the service is free, but with the rumours of them hardly protecting the passwords and account details, with the servers being massively outdated, the LEAST i'd expect is a couple of quid in my PS wallet for me to spend how ever I wish.
We want more tbh..
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