PSN Down For Maintenance Early Next Month

This maintenance had better stop all these server downages. It's pretty insulting to ask us money for this at this point.

Nearly panicked as I've got the first week of March booked off. And with my wife in work and the kids at school I'm going to be hitting some of my Christmas backlog. Maintenance is a necessary evil at least it's timed well this time

Sony and Microsoft can not be held accountable for the little turds that keep attacking them with DDOS attacks. You can not protect against these attacks. Its the talent-less little poops you should be getting on the backs of.

@RustyBullet of course this was going to happen. You can protect against these attacks. Sony need to pull their finger out.

Ermahgerd. PSN maintenance.

@themcnoisy Sorry but you are wrong. DDOS attacks can not be prevented from happening you can only react once the attack has started.

@RustyBullet http://mobile.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/5-tips-for-fighting-ddos-attacks.html

Second website which came up on a search. So no you are wrong. Go and polish your bullets.

Right, did you read the article. DDOS can not be prevented you can only act against it once it's happening. So am I wrong....no.

Also the way Sony counter it is to shut the system down, Microsoft deny access to the affected parts of Xbox Live and migrate traffic.

@themcnoisy @RustyBullet Let's not get too argumentative people!

@RustyBullet sorry didn't mean to be offensive.

@themcnoisy Yes also sorry. I too was not trying to be argumentative, I just sympathise with the amount of flack Sony and Microsoft both get by something they don't instigate them self's and can only react to. Just saying it's the muppets that like to call them self's hackers even tho DDOS is not hacking. I have both systems so when these little sods interrupt my enjoyment it's a pain in the butt.

@themcnoisy @RustyBullet I hate to bring this back up, but I agree with RustyBullet. A DDoS attack is an attack where one or more users send fake traffic (usually more than 1 GB/s) to a server in hopes of bringing it to it's knees. There really is no way of preventing or detecting this kind of attack, until it's already happening. Imagine all the cars on a freeway have very dark tinted windows. Try to find the cars that have more than one passenger. It's hard to do that. (Sorry, bad analogy, but it's the only one I could think of). This is basically what it's like for SONY and Microsoft. The article you posted was only for fighting against the attack once it had already happened. I hope this clears it up for you I'm not trying to start any arguments or anything I'm just giving you some quick info for next time. We should really hold the individuals accountable for their actions, not the company.