If you tried to play video games online over the holidays you may have experienced some difficulties. PSN was reportedly fully back yesterday morning while Microsoft had normalised things on Boxing Day.
"Microsoft and Sony are fucking retarded, literally monkeys behind computers. They would have better luck if they actually hired someone who knew what they were doing. Like, if they went around prisons and hired people who were convicted for stuff like this, they would have a better chance at preventing attacks."
"If I was working at Microsoft or Sony and had a big enough budget, I could totally stop these attacks. I'd buy more bandwidth, some specific equipment, and configure it correctly. It's just about programming skill. With an attack of this scale, it could go up to the millions. But that's really no problem for Sony and Microsoft."
Of course, the fact that the attack happened during Christmas and Lizard Squad's public profile also implies that attention was part of the motivation. Anyway, hopefully that's the last we'll have to write about this sort of thing.