Rumour: The Real Reason The Playstation Network Is Down?
With the PSN network being down for the 5th straight day in a row, and Sony keeping tight lipped to the reasons why it’s still down, there is plenty of rumour and speculation as to why this might be. The latest rumour comes via a post to Reddit.com, and while unsubstantiated, would make a lot of sense if true. Have a read of the post yourself and see what you think of it…
I’ve seen a bunch of speculation of why people think PSN is down, and I thought I should just post what the community knows in comparison to what Sony is telling everyone. The truth is, there was a new CFW (custom firmware) released known as Rebug (http://rebug.me). It essentially turns a retail console into a dev console (not fully, but gives you a lot of the same options that usually dev’s only have access to). Anyway, this new CFW was quickly figured out to give CFW users access to the PSN network again via the dev networks. With a little manipulation of the URL’s through a proxy server you could get your hacked console back online. Not that big of a deal, right? Well, it also turns out that some people over at NGU found out that you could provide fake CC# info and the authenticity of the information was never checked as you were on Sony’s private developer PSN network (essentially a network that Sony trusted). What happened next was extreme piracy of PSN content.
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