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It says here that it's down for maintenance.
http://twitter.com/#!/PlayStationEU
But then again, "maintenance" can mean many different things...
Ongoing PSN outages
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It says here that it's down for maintenance.
http://twitter.com/#!/PlayStationEU
But then again, "maintenance" can mean many different things...
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Precisly. Has anyone else found anything else on this?
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The PSN is down for maintenance for an unspecified amount of time. It will be back up when they have finished the maintenance, when exactly that will be, no one knows.
http://community.eu.playstation.com...-today-Thursday-21st-April-2011/td-p/12758774
http://community.eu.playstation.com...-today-Thursday-21st-April-2011/td-p/12758774
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Well any major scheduled maintenance is always announced by Sony beforehand with an estimated time, that would be maintenance that leaves PSN unavailable for more than an hour or two. Considering this so-called maintenance was announced by Sony after PSN went down and they still can't estimate a time for it coming back online and it's been offline for 7-8 hours so far, I'd say whatever's causing it is pretty major, Sony wasn't expecting it and they're having problems sorting it. Also, Sony seem quite tight lipped about what's causing it.
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I have one question about this. Why in the world can't SONY inform us of maintance instead of giving us a error code ? Maybe a nice message instead? Other games I have played have infomation posted like servers are undergoing maintance......
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Because they are probably locked out of their own system. The hackers most likely have taken control of the systems with the denial of service, just like when a worm or trojen hourse is on your computer. Everything is unavailable. Same here.
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how would/could someone do this?...
ill answer its impossible. a complete meltdown and restore from backup is more likely at this point.
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Well, I'm not a hacker, so by no means would I know. If I had to guess from being around computers, I would say they went in through a back door, or basically where able to hack in using someone esles log in information. Once in, they probably loaded a trojen, or some other worm, etc and from there they turned the PSN into a slave system (meaing able to follow prompt commands). Just a total guess though.
People are very sophisticated in their ability to do stuff like this. Once they target something, they are pretty good at getting in. It is basically a tug of war match now. The hackers do something, Sony counteracts, and vise versa, until Sony eventually is able to block them out. They may also have it down to protect end users from their data being infiltrated and destroyed.
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Seriously I don't see the big problem, why doesn't everyone just go stand outside? 👍
This does not seem like routine maintenance to me, however, unlikely a direct hack attack imo. I've been thinking for a while now that whatever precations Sony have been working on to stop further attacks is hindering the system.
I wonder if they will say anything truthfull about this.
This does not seem like routine maintenance to me, however, unlikely a direct hack attack imo. I've been thinking for a while now that whatever precations Sony have been working on to stop further attacks is hindering the system.
I wonder if they will say anything truthfull about this.
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Hey posimosh....don't give up, this was just getting interesting...seeing the conspiracy theorists theorize.
As I thought: It's Fukashima all over again....They're trying seawater canons on Anon too I guess (wash 'em out of the servers....a bit o' salt never hurt noone my gran always said).
How about a PS Home upgrade which affects the entire xmb? Then we'd all be affected even if we don't use home.
All my bobs are hostage too...wonder what they're doing?
Wow! Maybe they could force us to play Tetris?
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They would use a form of distributed denial of service attack, there's loads of different ways to do it, the most common way is by flooding the target computer with requests so it overloads the system and either slows it down to where it's basically useless or completely crashes it. There's other more sophisticated ways but they all point to rendering the target computer useless rather than controlling it
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Last nite, I was able to race your bob's remotely from my PS3. They told me to tell you Hi!
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Last nite, I was able to race your bob's remotely from my PS3. They told me to tell you Hi!
Jeez that's nice Tober....was startin' to worry 'bout those young lads...all alone in Sony's Battlefield with them there hacker types moochin' around!
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<----- via twitter... all of you who said this was an attack and or the end of the world brought on by a nuclear plant eruption caused by an earthquake that anon caused can rest easy.. fore as the endtimes are near, at least we will have our psn to cuddle up to
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I posted this in the other thread RE: the outages:
Link: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011...&utm_campaign=Feed:+PSBlog+(PlayStation.Blog)
I wouldn't be changing anything RE: your console until PSN is stable again.
I have found, probably as a few others, that if you get an error code, cancel and try again. After three or four tries, I get online.
Dan
Link: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011...&utm_campaign=Feed:+PSBlog+(PlayStation.Blog)
I wouldn't be changing anything RE: your console until PSN is stable again.
I have found, probably as a few others, that if you get an error code, cancel and try again. After three or four tries, I get online.
Dan
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Been trying for 2 straight hours, with no luck. What the hell!
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I have the same problem. My ethernet cable is split, thought it was that, glad it's not now I don't need to buy a new one!
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I think Sony deserve this, because even when the servers wasnt attacked, online play in gt5 was bad, online implementation bad....so i couldnt care less. Sure i want to play online, but corporations cant mess with people and expect nothing back. Thats it, mess with the hackers, and they mess with you, thats the game. The only reason i dont care is because of PD and Sony didnt bring those things into gt5 that they promised, and that was expected. Thats it!
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The PSN is currently down for maintenance for Europe and North America (officially confirmed). No timeframe has been set as to when it will be back up. Error Code 80710A06. Will update as necessary.
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