Hey guys!
For those PSN owners, have you guys been having trouble logging into it lately? I haven't been on for a while but I've been hearing a number of rumours going around about the fact that the PSN has been down for a day or two and people are starting to get suscipious of what exactly is going on. So far, what I've heard, Sony are putting it down to necessary maintenance which is nothing uncommon. But a fresh batch of rumours have been spreading about the PSN's closure. The first one going around is that there is some sort of glitch or bug that needed urgent attention since you can now link your PSN ID to your Steam account upon your acquisition of Portal 2. Apparently there have been issues with connectivity and accounts not being recognised.
The other rumour circulating is the current war going on between the hacker group Anonymous and Sony. For those of you who don't know, Sony took legal action against a hacker GeoHot who apparently cracked the PS3's firmware. As far as I'm aware the battle is still going on but the internet hacker group Anonymous vowed to get revenge on Sony for condemning the free right of expression and explore the company's hardware and firmware. They said they would find a way to deliberately crash the PSN rendering it unuseable and cutting off all online net play for PS3 owners. This could also affect purchases made on the PSN Store and stored information regarding profiles, trophy achievements etc. It's their way of backlashing at the legal action they've taken against GeoHot.
I don't know if any of these rumours are true but has anyone else found it difficult to sign in to the PSN? Otherwise, does anyone else have any idea what the heck's going on? The whole issue with Anonymous could be a whole new discussion topic in itself. What'dya think peeps?