Infinity Ward Talks about PS3's Security.

IW talks to gamers on the forums about Sony's latest issue with security.


Sony's latest security break is no laughing matter as Sony themselves have taken action against the hackers who hacked into the PS3 and as you may call it, it's a battle where you chose sides but not piracy vs corporation but Whether you really own that console vs Corporation as it's put by GeoHot. Now there are some arguments of whether or not you can do whatever you want with your console which is for another post but you can practically tell Sony is shitting bricks.

IW has gone up on their forums and commented on the issue and practically explains that there is nothing much they can do to fix the issue unless Sony themselves fix it.

"Sony has recently acknowledged a breach in security on the PS3 which resulted in games to become exposed to exploits and hacks. Modern Warfare 2 is no exception to this security exploit and we understand that some of you have experienced problems with stats and other issues associated with this.

Games rely on the security of the encryption on the platforms they're played on, therefore; updates to the game through patches will not resolve this problem, unless the security exploit itself is resolved on the platform. Regretfully, Call of Duty games are receiving the bulk of the hacker's attention, due to its high player counts and popularity. However, the number of legitimate players severely outweighs the bad apples.

If you are concerned about playing with players who are hacking, I encourage you to play exclusively with friends by utilizing the party or private match options in Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty 4 to avoid such players as much as possible until this issue is resolved by Sony.

At this time, we do not have the ability to restore or adjust individual stats.

Let me assure you, while we are very reliant on Sony updating their firmware and security to address the core problem of this issue. We are looking at EVERY option available to us to help any user affected.

This only applies to legacy games such as Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2. In the future we plan to adjust our approach to not rely solely on platform security and reduce the ability for this to happen in our games, as has already been displayed by the work Treyarch has done on Call of Duty: Black Ops to prevent similar measures."

CoD MW 1 and 2 are both games in which the masses play against the world so playing with friends is a step down for about 95% of the population. I haven't seen this myself so it's probably something that doesn't happen as often and people shouldn't fear for this and if you do then follow IW advice and play private matches or play a different game.

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