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PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet

Posted Jun 11, 2011 at 5:00PM EST by Carl B

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: anonymous, Codemasters, Epic Games, Hackers, Nintendo, psn, Sony

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The last few months have seen an alarming rate of Internet hacks on websites and services, and despite what some pro-hacking activists may think, it will only lead to a government crackdown on the Internet.

I reported earlier today that Epic Games has been hacked, making them the third gaming company to be hacked in this month along (joining Codemasters and Nintendo UK).

We all know about the hacks on Sony that crippled their PSN service and made worldwide headlines, but it seems the attacks haven't stopped there. I still haven't managed to understand what the point in hacking Sony even was -- it made millions of PS3 and PSP users angry at the hackers.

Now, their actions can make it worse for all Internet users. Governments across the world are already starting to crack down on torrent websites, and it's only a matter of time before more legislature is passed that will blacklist and take down sites like 4chan. It can even go as far as total non-privacy on the Internet if serious hacks like these continue.

I'll ask this, and see if anyone in the comments section below or our community forums can answer it: what exactly do these hacks succeed in? What's the point of them, if only bad things can come out of it?

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-5 # RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — DeltaDAWG 2011-06-13 12:59

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Anyone who hates the PoV articles can simply STOP READING them. The PoV articles are a FIX for a problem people complained about (opinions in the blog articles). So if enough people complain about the PoV articles then QJ just might quit "fixing" things.

Hey QJ! I never click on the ads so...how about if I pay QJ a $20 annual subscription, you make it so paid accounts don't get ads? Food for thought!

+3 # RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — crait 2011-06-14 13:43

You're dumb. We told them we didn't like the multiple pages, and they fixed it. If we don't complain, they don't know what people want.
I bet you're the kind of person that doesn't vote but gets mad whenever something you don't like happens in the government.

Grow up.

-7 # RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — DeltaDAWG 2011-07-14 17:27

So YET AGAIN you utterly FAILED to understand.

The POV articles were created as a result from "PEOPLE VOTING" to keep the personal opinions out of the blog from the authors.

What part of that are you not capable of understanding?

You are asking to UNDO something that was done FOR US.

Gees, it's never ending with you. You just never understand what is going on around you. Utterly clueless!

-1 # RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — crait 2011-07-15 12:13

Cool story, bro.

-5 # RE: RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — DeltaDAWG 2011-06-13 13:01

"The end of Internet privacy is near."

The internet was never private. The internet is and always will be public. Anyone who thought their info was private after being posted to the internet was a fool.

Privacy agreements are between the groups stated in the agreement. Outside of that, anything is game.

-3 # RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — Shimazaki 2011-06-11 18:11

Trolls, thais the only explanatioen, they can go and continue to be anonimous, but the rest of us will suffer the consequences, so, what they are doing i guess is ensalves us so they can have more liverty.

-3 # The saying goes... — AK-47 2011-06-11 19:42

It takes only a few people to ruin everyone's fun. :(

+1 # RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — fanoultimate 2011-06-11 18:14

is funny how a bunch of 14 years old are destroying the whole internet. They said crap like 'we're doing this for sake of people's right' when actually they're ruining their rights. Just throw groups like FBI at them, and done

+3 # RE: RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — crait 2011-06-12 13:15

They are doing it for credit card information.

-1 # RE: RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — Tidusu 2011-06-17 09:18

By All means these are not "immature" or "stupid" people. These hackers know what their doing if they can get into companies like Sony/Nintendo etc, and judging by their attacks it's coordination to expose people's personal information by ram-sacking the security flaws in those companies whom have had those flaws for who knows how long.

Why is it being done? The real answer is unknown, some hackers do it in a form of jest to prove "Yes, I can do this" for the "fun" of it or a combination of gaining customer's personal information.

These hackers who are attacking the video-game companies sound like corrupt/"associated" gamers who have a favorite spot for Nintendo (it was mentioned in an article on this website that they like Nintendo. Also, Bethesda is FULL of bugs, and always had some sort of problem in their games, is it possible that these hackers are aiming for giant 1-million+ game corporation that's "ripe" because of the bugs on their platform?

Why haven't they touched the smaller, lesser companies? It's surprising they haven't touched Second Life, and that's chocked full of bugs that the company is slow to fix.

Will this effect how the government will regulate the internet? It is and already has(plus 1,000 other things), but what do torrents sites have to do with internet break-ins?

-3 # RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — UltimaXIX 2011-06-11 18:16

Thanks to the ingenious structural of the internet, this is impossible. How specifically that is so depends on the exact method governments would use to take sites down, but to over-simplify the internet is so flexible and robust there isn't a single element that couldn't be replaced by a third party.

Also, as long as there exists a neutral country, servers can just be shipped off-shore without hindrance. In fact, I'd wager that if a majority of countries do impose such bans, then you'll be damned sure some smaller or less economically developed countries will do their best to cash in on it, though I'll admit this second paragraph is mostly baseless conjecture. Still, I'd put money on it.

-4 # So then — Serios 2011-06-11 18:31

Well I personally think that some private hacker firm is behind this, with the attacks that we're made by those stupid kids it left a huge opportunity for someone to do all this, then blame it on them. Especially if it's an interest group who is pushing for less privacy on the internet for commercial purposes. I mean these are professional sites, do you really think the culprit would be a group of weekend nerds?

-4 # Yup — guybrush 2011-06-12 12:36

This sounds about right, do people think that the whole of world history happened a certain way for no particular reason whatsoever?

Things happen a certain way, and there are always a few who benefit to the detriment of all others, of course there's the party line "it's for your benefit, we did it for you! -aren't you happy that we destroyed the internet so you can be safe? no? I guess you must be one of those internet terrorists..."

+3 # RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — crait 2011-06-11 19:08

The internet was created in order to get one message from one side of the US to the other, even if relay points were destroyed. The internet was created specifically so that it would allow information to pass even if something blocked the message.
It won't be regulated. The only thing I see in the near future is Net Neutrality and charging for each MB you download and blocking high-bandwidth sites like YouTube.

-1 # RE: RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — Druidium 2011-06-11 21:03

Canada all ready charges per megabyte for wireless internet! One of the big things that made the psp go so expensive was just that, too expensive for most people to download on a wireless internet connection.

Charging per megabyte is reality now, just depends where in the world you live and what services for internet are available where you live.

# RE: RE: RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — crait 2011-06-12 13:17

You're talking about WiFi or 3G? They do that in America for 3G, but if you have an Ethernet connection, there are modems you can buy that output a WiFi signal that your computer or any device can use. The internet service providers cannot detect if you have WiFi in your house or not this way. Why don't you just do that?

-4 # RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — bender2 2011-06-11 19:33

I don't think they would go after 4chan but they might go after some more torrents sites but then more will start up you can't stop software pirates.

-4 # well — 1ofamillion 2011-06-11 19:52

Hackers are kind of like termites...

-2 # Hacking — Davvvvvid 2011-06-11 22:49

Hacking is similar to that of breaking and entering. If you forget to lock your house door, that doesn't mean it gives the right for someone to come in and steal shit. Hacking is no different, expect from the fact that its done virtually. Either way the hackers should be punished.

-4 # RE: Hacking — UltimaXIX 2011-06-12 06:17

If you want to go with the door analogy, then surely once we've purchased a door and it's in our ownership we have the right to break into it all we want? Or by your reckoning does the door manufacturer still hold exclusive rights to the door and do they have the right to enter as pleased?

-3 # Opinion — Deathrow 2011-06-11 23:55

Personally, I think this article is a little farfetched by getting confused with websites attacks to automatically mean cracking down on the internet. I mean, these attacks are just proof of flaws in current software. Why is it necessary to assume that the government's plan it to control the internet? That makes no sense.

-4 # RE: Opinion — Psylink 2011-06-12 03:21

http://t.co/KsB7V0G

has nothing to do with hacking but there is an internet blacklist bill the us govt is trying to pass because of the mpaa and riaa, however if it happens, they won't stop with torrent sites.

people need to take this bill serious because its been put back through multiple times now, mpaa even has stated that the petitions were false and people didn't exist on them.
you should probably read up more on the issue because china already has had this in place for quite awhile, they even blocked various google related apps/sites.

-4 # Hacking — Triplista32 2011-06-12 06:17

The answer is simple. Turn the hackers over to the police. If you know who is doing this, turn them in. Because eventually even hackers will fall victim to their own crimes and then they will see the errors of their ways. I have always thought....these hackers are pretty intelligent, why don't they put their intelligence to good use and make the internet safe for everyone and keep the government from controlling it. The government has always wished for this to happen and the hackers are playing right into their hands. Hell who knows, maybe the government has secret hackers out there doing this on purpose to further thier objective....good conspiracy theory...huh?

-4 # RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — bobobobo 2011-06-12 06:56

whenever governments want somthing all they have to does is cause a bit of havock and boom all the idiot people who dont see the bigger picture panic and let them do whatever they want to them, in the name of "safety" truth is nobody will ever be safe anywhere in the world yeah your email address might not be stolen but you can still get mugged or shot going to get your food from the supermarket, i know which one i would prefer

-4 # RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — Liam Riordan 2011-06-12 12:50

The majority will suffer for the acts of the minority.

Fact of life.

-4 # TRUTH — ARGON 2011-06-13 09:19

QUOTE: Governments across the world are already starting to crack down on torrent websites, and it's only a matter of time before more legislature is passed that will blacklist and take down sites like 4chan. It can even go as far as total non-privacy on the Internet if serious hacks like these continue.

Can't U C wots obvious here? Like always!
GOV/CORP(bum-chums)anonymous ly employ those with hacking abilities to disrupt and cause chaos within the SYSTEM/THE NET with the agenda to create MORE Bull/S laws to gain total control and of course $$$$$$$$$. Nothing happens is this world without the absolute executive decision of MF's in a Bunker or Behind (very heavy) Closed Doors!!!!!
So please....all you MAGGOTS spewing out crap....kindly keep it shut! Cause U don't know F/all!
Just remember the 2 towas, what do U do if U want to invade another country (and make a quick billion bucks at the same time)......create a diablical DIVERSION!
Same thing here, always the same thing.
I can see it......Y can't the rest of YOU!???????????????????????????????????

-4 # RE: PoV: Hacks will lead to government crackdown on Internet — nothingmanz 2011-06-14 02:47

Hoo-wee I feel sorry for the poor bastard they catch for this first, cos they are gonna make a proper example out of him/her. Which of course will lead to retaliatory attacks etc.
as for the cockamamie conspiracy theorist above me... Seriously dude... You can't be that thick can you? Suppose Osama Bin Laden was a CGI augmented dummy with a steel wool beard BUT THE GVMNT DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW BECAUSE THEY PLANTED HIM TO TAKE DOWN TWIN TOWERZ SO TAHT GVMT COULD INSTALL A STATE OWNED MACDONALDS IN NEW YORK AND MAKE FUTURE KIDS SO FAT THAT THEY WILL HAVE TO ENROLL IN GVMT OWNED GYMS AND WEAR GEORGE BUSH ANTIPERSPIRANT WHICH IS BREWED IN CUBA AND NOT AMERICA!!!!!!! CANT YOU SEE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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