Japanese Goverment holds PSN restart - Thank god SOMEBODY is asking questions.

Joystiq is reporting that Japan is not willing (alone in that it seems) to allow Sony to just start up PSN again until it is satisfied that things are up to scratch this time around.  While gamers are chomping at the bit to get back online, I'm sure most of them would rather wait for adequate measures to be applied, tested and proven before PSN services come back to life (*tongue in cheek*)

Well actually, we know that is a load of crap.  Most gamers don't care what happened, why it happened or who is even truly at fault - because they're too busy sucking back 10 times the recommended limit of cola and candy to allow their fried, halfwit brains and blistered thumbs rest long enough to actually think about how serious the PSN breach truly was. (Hint - 'Anonymous' is a scapegoat in all of this even if they WERE responsible for the firmware corruption)

Fresh off of another disaster caused by years of a major Japanese firm saying 'Don't worry, everything is under control...' - I guess the Japenese government has finally had enough and is standing up for its citizens at last.  Too bad then that they seem to be the only ones while the rest of our capitalist, moronic governments let Sony's PSN reactivate without prejudice even though Sony is under investigation in many countries for the original breach!  

Personally, I'd say go back to PSN if you like - but remove your credit cards, change your names and alter your birthdate into something far removed from the truth.  Do you really think that Sony has 'fixed' PSN after all this time?  No doubt things are 'better' but believe me, from all that I and others in the trade have read about the severe lack of proper security infrastructure, there is no hope in H-E-doublehockeysticks that Sony has suddenly created a secure PSN after only two months.  This will take YEARS to resolve properly.   To use an analogy, 'Rome wasn't built in a day' and neither was PSN - but if Romulus found out that, after years of building, none of the structures had proper foundations, do you reckon he'd believe the workers if they told him that 2 months would solve all of their problems?

London had the right idea a couple centuries back - burn it to the ground and start again.  I'm afraid that's what was probably needed.  Sony won't do that of course - but don't kid yourself about PSN being fixed any time before 2013.  Keep your confidential data to yourself until Sony gets 'all growed up' and actually accepts that running a Commercial 'cloud' requires top people on top wages, not a bunch of pimple-faced, intern cowboys that they just pinched fresh out of boot.