Time for a play-by-play...

What makes you think that Sony doesn't do everything in their power to keep the information of their customers confidential? And who are you to state that they don't? (Both are rhetorical questions.) A company like this needs to do so. As I said above, there is no perfect system. The only things that come even close are those used by the federal governments of countries, and even those aren't perfect. I am aware that I am repeating myself when I say that the purpose of computer security is to make it harder for hackers to get in. It's effectively a system for making them rage-quit. If a hacker (or group of hackers) is motivated enough, and has enough patience, they can hack anything. Well, unless they get caught, but the Sony hackers haven't, so it's a moot point.

Yes, it is Sony's job to be protecting it's consumers, but there is no way that 100% of the blame can be put on Sony. I think I have the perfect analogy for this:

A surrogate mother is being paid to have a baby for a couple in which the girl was infertile. The surrogate was then stabbed multiple times after she told a person who was trying smoking near her to go away. The baby dies, but she survives. The couple who had hired the surrogate sued her for the murder of their unborn child.

It's not perfect, but it's about as close to a good analogy as I can make it. Sure, if they mother was being more careful she wouldn't have been knifed. Maybe she should have stayed indoors twenty four seven, and remain unconnected from the world so that nobody could use her.

Yes, I will admit that the statement I had made earlier is not as accurate as it should be. Here, I'll fix that.




I never at any point said that the two were the same entities. I never said hackers are businesses, nor buisness like. As for resources, let me ask you something. Have you aver hacked anything? Have you ever seen anything hacked? A hacker only needs two things in order to infiltrate any connection:
A computer and a connection.
The latter is significantly harder to obtain, which is the majority of the battle, but my point is this: You don't need millions of dollars of equipment to hack a company. Hacking is 99% knowledge. It's an obtained skill. To be completely honest, anyone can become a competent hacker in about a year, which severely frightens me. As I've said already, fighting hackers is an up-hill battle. You can's say that because the businesses have millions of dollars in their security departments and that hackers don't that hackers are inferior to them.
I would like to know, where do you get you're knowledge about hacking? (This is also rhetorical.) You make brazen statements about how the hackers are in no way to blame, and how they do their work. I feel that these are ignorant statements, which leads me into my next point:

I am not trying to change your mind. I apologize if I came off as such. I am trying to point out the flaws in the statements you have made in order to show in invalidation of your arguments. I'm not saying that you should stop, nor that I want you to for that matter. I would honestly enjoy it if you brought up a legitimate point and founded it with real support. I believe that you are just spewing ignorance. By proving me wrong, it would make both of our days, as well as the days of many other people who frequent this forum. I know I am starting to sound self-righteous, but the whole reason I posted what I did was because I saw something that I see and deal with everyday, something I can't stand for.