On Christmas day , around the world, many gamers now play their
favorite game may not be many . The reason? PSN and Xbox Live such as sports ,
powering online services , were down and a group of hackers reportedly claimed
responsibility .
Today , Xbox Live seems to be mostly up and running
. Sony says they are working on it , though, PSN, is still down . Other
services are fully restored while waiting on , one thing everyone can not help
but wonder why ? Why anyone would do something like this ? What is it?
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more after a day , morning Xbox and Xbox 360 is working across platforms
Internet culture is
familiar with the idea that anyone can be as short answer is ", lulz
is" . Long answer , if not a little self is a bit more complicated
righteous.12
Daily Dot Lizard squad
, he went down to gaming online services have claimed that some of the people
behind the group published an interview with . In the past year , he also
claimed to be behind a few other stunts
To be clear , no one actually Lizard squad
really using denial of service attacks to bring down the PSN and Xbox Live can
be confirmed . However , when the match : Group pass , Xbox Live and PSN before
it happened almost a month , and then look down at Christmas
Claims . It may have just been a
coincidence , while the PSN and Xbox Live down they supposedly did Christmas
Lizard squad is interesting to listen to reason . Apparently , the attack in
which he alleged had been planning for a while - Microsoft and Sony was "incompetent
" to highlight
"Microsoft and Sony
are fucking retarded, literally monkeys behind computers," one of the
members of Lizard Squad explained to The Daily Dot. "They
would have better luck if they actually hired someone who knew what they were
doing. Like, if they went around prisons and hired people who were convicted
for stuff like this they would have a better chance at preventing
attacks."3
"If I was working
[at Microsoft or Sony] and had a big enough budget I could totally stop these
attacks," another member of Lizard claimed. "I'd buy more bandwidth,
some specific equipment, and configure it correctly. It's just about
programming skill. With an attack of this scale it could go up to the millions.
But that's really no problem for Sony and Microsoft."45678
In a different interview
with BBC Radio, a member of Lizard Squad was asked whether or not they felt a
sense of shame for essentially ruining Christmas for a bunch of kids. "If
I did, I would probably have apologized by now, but no I don't," the
Lizard Squad member responded. "You feel that you have the power to do
something, and maybe the company can change for the better," he later
said, while explaining why Lizard Squad took down PSN and Xbox Live. He later
defended the DDoS takedown of PSN and Xbox Live by bringing up how gamers pay
so much money for subscriptions to play online, only to have Microsoft and Sony
fumble when it comes to maintaining these services while under attack by
hijinks like those that are supposedly carried out by Lizard Squad. Lizard
Squad seems convinced that what they're doing is for the "greater
good." It doesn't help that Lizard Squad claims they had warned the
companies that an attack was coming on Christmas day. While we can't verify
that yet, we do know that Lizard Squad had been threatening with an attack
publicly on Twitter for the last month.
"It's not so much
that we don't care about [people's lives] being disrupted," a member of
Lizard Squad clarified. "Surely people could go for one day [without
playing games], you know, it wasn't even a day in total. It was just 12 to 14
hours."21
You'd think that taking
center stage like this—Tweeting, boasting and giving out interviews—would make
some of the members of Lizard Squad scared about being caught. But, they don't
really seem to care.22
"There is a chance
that I will get caught, and I personally am not really that worried about it,
to be honest," a Lizard Squad member said in the BBC interview. "If I
get caught, then I get caught. Maybe I'll end up serving time, or maybe I'll
end up helping companies, help them get better I guess."2324
Assuming Lizard Squad did
take down PSN and Xbox Live, some would claim that what they accomplished isn't
actually hacking. But, Lizard Squad does have a response for that too.
"For attacks of this
scale, you can't really do them without either having access to insane amounts
of funding or being able to gain access to the computers via hacking...you
can't just do DDoS attacks from your home computer," a member of Lizard
Squad claimed in the Daily Dot interview. "It doesn't
work."25
Another member of Lizard
Squad didn't sound as confident about his hacking abilities during the interview
with BBC radio.
"I wouldn't really
call myself a top grade hacker," the Lizard Squad member said. "I
know people who are way better than me. But I think I know my stuff. I think
it's fair to say I know some of my stuff, and this just proves it, right?"26
"So it doesn't take
a degree of sophistication to do this," the interviewer responded.
"An ordinary hacker that wants to disrupt children's lives on Christmas
day could do this."
"If they put their
minds to it, whereas, with me, friends of mine, they used to go out clubbing,
partying, I really didn't enjoy that," the Lizard Squad member explained.
"I found it dull. So I decided to just sit at home and learn more skills
of my own. It's helped me along the way, so maybe this isn't something that
most people enjoy and think that it was a good decision. But to us I think it
was just something we just decided upon, so, yeah, [the PSN and Xbox Live DDoS]
happened.27
You can read the rest of
the Daily Dot interview here. We'll keep you updated on the status of Xbox Live
and PSN, as well as any developments that might shed some light on what was
responsible for these incidents. For now, developers like Rockstar are trying
their best to make things right for players who aren't able to enjoy
seasonal, limited time experiences—like snow inGrand Theft Auto Online.
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