If you were a hacker that was going to make a lot of people very upset and disappointed, what is the first thing you would do? And I mean literally the first, as you wouldn’t even develop the hack until this issue was dealt with. That is identity. Would you want people to know who you are if you were going to take down the Playstation Network (PSN) and cause Sony to rebuild the entire thing? Of course not.

If you’ve grown up with a sibling or even a close friend, you know the finger-pointing blame game that is “he (or she) did it.” Well, that works at all ages, believe it or not. So given the circumstances, if I were going to hack the PSN and cause millions to be pissed off (77 million to be exact), I wouldn’t want them to know who I was. The best person I could think to blame it on is Anonymous, considering their recent news attention and conflicts with Sony.

Now, why am I ranting? Really, I’m just proving a point. Sony has now pointed the finger at Anonymous for the recent hacks. Anonymous, who is quick to tell the public what they do, as their personal identities are covered. Thus, Anonymous would be bragging. However, they did recently take down the PSN for a couple of hours, although it was indirect (taking down Sony’s website, in which time Sony took down PSN). But people will still blame them anyway, even if they don’t know them. I, however, have talked with quite a few. Sony is so ignorant and clearly seeking revenge.

Why is Sony blaming Anonymous? Okay, so I’ve already logically deciphered that it wasn’t them. However, their evidence is this: the hackers left a file entitled “Anonymous.txt” behind, on purpose might I add. The text within the file was “We are Legion,” part of the longer phrase that Anonymous lives by. That’s literally their ONLY “evidence.”

Sony can be a powerful company, even if some of their actions (especially with the George Hotz case) were illegal. But in the end, justice is served. People pay for their protection, in which case the PSN is ideally free, thus suffering in logical and designated security.

I will admit these latest hackers were malicious. However, I take it offensively when people blame Anonymous or George Hotz for this. If you feel it was either, email or comment and we shall fully debate why it was neither one of them.