[Update] PS3 Hacker's can now Ban Legitimate Users and Unban Consoles?

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Fake?

And wouldn’t you need someone else’s console ID to get their console banned from PSN?

If they do this, I will track down every fucking hacker in the US and Canada and beat them until they are a bloody pulp. Legit users watch out? Okay, ban my console and I’ll put you in a near death state.

Call this taking it too far, I don’t care. Someone needs to punish these people and it sure as hell won’t be the law.

This again, like the credit card story is only a threat to hacked consoles where a virus could send the console id to someone intercepting traffic. Fucking do your job and research this shit before posting fud.

And another thing, SKFU is a hack, pun intedned, full of shit, he photoshopped an image where someone showed the program sony uses to ban. Total bullshit.

all I know is that if I do hear reports about people’s console being banned for doing nothing.

I will be p*ssed off!
because hackers then wouldn’t have any excuse for being wronged or sued!

ugh… just like MW2. There’s still no fix, no patch, and it’s still going on. Sony just needs to make a new fucking system, so we can ignore the security problems pursuing, as hackers have no sense of self control to stop them from ruining anything. Look at the PC, for instance. There would be no viruses if hackers didn’t make them. There would still be good games on the PC, and hardware would cost less, because more people would play games on PC IF there weren’t pirates. But they are, and they always will. They won’t change, they don’t have any legitimate excuse, they’re just bad people. And bad people don’t know what they’ve done wrong, like Geohot. They’re criminals, the fuckin’ lot of them.
You know what the definition of madness is? Doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The hackers are doing the same thing. The pirates are doing the same thing. Nothing is changing. Prices aren’t dropping. Nothing is preventing piracy. So yes, it is a major problem on both sides, through the industry and the hackers/pirates. But the difference is there is a moral problem with pirates and hackers, where they don’t feel like they’re doing anything wrong by stealing something digitally–and the industry thinks that pirates can accept that. They can’t, they won’t, and they never will.
Hopefully a computer genocide will be created, and it will wipe out all these hackers/pirates–which is what Sony is attempting to do on the PS3. They’re failing miserably at it though. Sony, forget about killing with dignity, just nuke the bastards.

Yeah you can do this. I have the pkg file ready to install and use if Sony bans me. I use home brew and backup games that I have purchased. The program is simple it patches your PSID temporarily so you can log into PSN. You make a text file with the PSID you want to sub in. Then the program installed on your ps3 uses that I’d and patches it in.

Well.

Damn.

I wouldn’t think that hackers would make a program like this for any purpose other than to un-ban their own consoles and get revenge on Sony employees by banning their consoles. the term “hacker” has bad connotations, but they aren’t out there to cause havoc. they’re out there to play games for free. Sony is obviously vilifying they because they want people to pay for games, but they really aren’t that bad. Sony should have known better than to try to take down hackers. They bay be able to hack defensively, but these “hackers” do it professionally, and have both the time and the motivation to get back at Sony for making the most of the product they bought. it was only a matter of time before they did SOMETHING to unban their consoles. being able to ban other consoles just happened to be an added bonus.

OMG how dump can one be?
Hackers want to use the hardware they payed for the way they want to.
Script Kiddies use the tools written by hackers to annoy others.
Criminals use the tools to make money.

Same on PCs: If hackers wouldn’t find security holes, criminals would and steal your CC without you even recognizing it.

If Sony would have made the ban-process secure in the first place, no one would be able to ban anyone else… The only one to blame is SONY.

Same on PCs: If the software developers don’t secure there software they are to blame for the harm done to your PC by criminals.

I think you guys are getting angry at the wrong people. “Hackers”, who thanks to hollywood now encompass phreakers, crackers, coders, scriptkiddies, etcetc all under one name, kinda like calling all criminals blacks, are not even the guys you should be angry at. Sony decided to take away something that these people paid for, after the sale. False advertising, renigging on terms, take your pick, they screwed these people when they went back later and pulled VERY LARGE AMOUNTS of functionality.
These people are not your typical user, they do not have tons of money to spend and do not take kindly to getting screwed, and unlike 99% of you, they have the know-how to turn it around on someone. They took the system they paid for and were being told they could no longer use for what they bought it, and they started to delve into it, take it apart, reverse engineer it. They learned how the system works, how to get around the “security” Sony put in place and in the proccess found out just how unsecure that data really is. Your information, accounts, credit cards, etcetc all avaliable at their fingertips due to this terrible security. Well, just calling Sony and saying theres holes, who would block it and still screw these people over, are doing the only thing they can to GARUNTEE Sony will do something… and that is to create a ability to showcase just how bad security is on their system. If someone can sit at their house, and BAN someone else, that is as poor of security as you can possibly have.
These people are using radical tactics to COVER YOUR ASS, and you should be thanking them, not deamonizing them. Yes, there will always be a few asshats that will try to take advantage of a situation, there always is, but that 1% of the community cannot stand for the other 99%.

Take it this way, if Ford decided to put in a limiter to not allow your car to go over 45 mpg, becuase its more fuel efficent, even though you bought your car 2 years ago and it would do 145mph before, who would you be mad at? Now, if some “hackers” got pissed at this, and found a way around it, finding out that each car had the ability to track everywhere you were going, how fast, and record in car coversations, and to be sure it is fixed published these facts and how-to to the interwebs, again who would you be mad at? You would be mad at Ford is who you would be mad at, becuase that is EXACTLY what Sony has done. Stop pumping fists at “hackers” becuase you are too stupid to understand what they are trying to do to HELP YOU, and start being mad at the people who put YOU in the place you are in now in the first place. Oh… and also be angry at those 1% assholes who abuse the system too.. I think they call them 12 yr olds.

Banning LOTS of random people would actually be a very good thing. It would mean SONY could not afford to examine every single case so no one could be banned anymore for using his/her PS3 the way he/she likes.

Getreal, a consoleID is a 16 digit number that is transmitted every time you connect to psn. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Any program that monitors network activity can find it. And any program that acts as an interpreter can spoof it.

You give the media too much credit Tom Ato. It took them 2 years to get on the Toyata bandwagon.

@Tom Ato

This is legitimate. You misinterpret the information.

It’s not that users can outright ban anyone they choose, the point is that any person with a modified ps3 can alter their Console ID.

You could, by sheer chance, be banned for nothing if someone manages to use your ID for piracy.

If you don’t believe this is real, I suggest you download charles, ps3dns and get yourself a 3.55 CFW’d ps3.

If sony hadn’t gone all out against GeoHot, this wouldn’t have happened.

Well, IN YOUR FACE SONY.

Although I do wish innocent users do not get affected.

Either Microsoft is about to issue a recall on ALL Windows devices because selling something that l33t hax0rs can break in to is illegal) or hackers can’t really break in to my home PC and I’ve been paying all this money to Norton every year for nothing…DURRRRRRR

“Although I do wish innocent users do not get affected.”

There are no innocent users of the ps3. Everybody knows Sony is evil, sells a closed drm’d console. Anyone who supports such things by byuing them is not innocent.

Great. I got banned last night and this is the last straw.. SONY, you moron company. Do something with your security problem and clean up the mess..*pissed*