Sony CEO Howard Stringer gaffs over PSN attack

In a bizarre statement by Howard Stringer reported by CVG, he admits that Sony never thought PSN would be the focus of an attack because 'it gave services to people for free.'  He goes on to say that Sony felt their security was robust (which we obviously know was delusional) but focused on motive saying that Sony didn't understand the attack or had any idea it would happen.

Ok. Moving aside that Hotz case for one second, my thoughts are that Stringer should review an age-old question: 'Why climb a mountain?'

The age-old answer should be enough to compel ANY company to focus on network security in a big way.

Despite appearance, I am NOT out to hang Sony over the PSN hack, but they just can't seem to help doing (and saying) really stupid things lately.  I hope they put together a great E3 presentation to help us get focusing on the positives of Playstation for a change after the last months of misery.