SONY invited hackers to attack them [Opinion]

[postconditional]

I was listening to a NPR NEWS story about how hackers have been hammering at all things SONY through multiple security vulnerabilities. I think the story falsely attributed the motivation behind these attacks. NPR stated that the attacks were in response to SONY's law suit against GeoHot, the hacker that hacked the PS3 to show that users (SONY's

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[malkhos]

You'd be surprised how little of this I follow.

All I know is I got a sony blue ray player and its takes (without exaggeration) between 10 and 30 minutes of repeated attempts to connect to the internet to use, e.g. netflix or you-tube. But it goes to the Sony internet site the first time every time in less than 1 second.

[postconditional]

Sony web site likely cached locally on the player?

[malkhos]

Well I only go there to update the software and I don't think the new updates since the last visit could be cached. But what do I know?