So I've gone awhile without raging, seems I'm becoming desensitized to the bad drivers and other crap I usually get upset over.... but my typical outlet for rage aside from this blog would be my PS3.... and as some of you may know, the online network for the ps3 has been down.
The first day it was down I was like: pffft whatever, they'll be back up tomorrow.
The next day I was like: oh they're not up, maybe tomorrow?
the 3rd day: Ok whats up Sony!?!
At some point it became known that the network was down due to hackers. And in time we found out the hackers were using dev accounts, which were apparently super easy to get, like any noob could do it. And as time went on we found out that through these dev accounts you could get just about anything, passwords, creditcard info, other personal info, pretty much everything you expect to be secure was not.
Apparently it wasn't obvious that you could get the personal info, but it wasn't impossible... and that leads me to 3 things to rage about:
1) Why were the dev accounts so easy to get?
2) Why was there any possibility for the dev accounts to actually acquire our personal info!?!?!
3) Why weren't our passwords hashed or something?
So 1 is an obvious stupid mistake. Obviously it shouldn't be so simple for non-devs to get a dev account. A Truly lame reason for this crap to be happening. But 2 is what really makes me rage beyond belief. Because the devs are just devs!!! Why should there be any possibility for them to get our personal info. And to have our passwords obtainable is just messed up!!!! I barely know much about programming, but I know what hashing is and when it was explained to me, it was explained to me like it was the normal thing companies do when they require a password for their website. Why Sony didn't do this, is beyond me.
These mistakes are sooooo stupid, I mean you have to be an idiot to design this and to think it was secure!!! I can't believe they thought this would slide and it'd never get exposed or exploited.
And whats the absolute worst part of ALL of this!?!? As much as all this makes me rage I still can't play any online PS3 games!!!!! I'm dying from withdrawal here!!!!
