1) Counting flowers on the wall,that don't bother me at all
2) Paling solitaire till dawn, with a deck of 51
3) Smoking Cigareets and watching Captian Kangaroo


Now tell me what you got to do!!

When a company ceases all operations, wouldn't billing fall under that?? Any fortune 5 would cease every single operation( even billing), all except security and work their way back from there.

Thank you for the many years of fun I've had in EQ!! /slaps self Don't ever take things for granted! I miss EQ! Miss my EQ family on Test Server! Naugrin, Dark, Nylrem, Aalania, King, Amducias, Blue,etc I heart you all!! ZAM Thank you too for all the years of I've come running to you for help and you never failing me! Have a great day errbodyyyy! =))

it is nice sony is more forthcoming with info, i hope the servers get up before the weekend is over, but hope that if they foresee the downtime being longer they will give us a heads up before we plan our weekends.getting info i can use is better than speculating.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/04/973151/-Anonymous,-Sony,-and-the-rule-of-law


Last month, an unknown party managed to break into Sony's servers and acquired millions of customer records including credit card numbers. Insomuch as that this incident occurred in the midst of Anonymous' OpSony, by which participants engaged in several of our standard information war procedures against the corporation and its executives, Sony and other parties have come to blame Anonymous for the heist. Today, in a letter directed to members of Congress involved in an inquiry into the situation, Sony claimed to have discovered a file on its servers, presumably left by the thieves in question, entitled "Anonymous" and containing a fragment of our slogan, "We are Legion." In response, we would like to raise the following points:

1. Anonymous has never been known to have engaged in credit card theft.

2. Many of our corporate and governmental adversaries, on the other hand, have been known to have lied to the public about Anonymous and about their own activities. HBGary, for instance, was caught lying a number of times to the press, to the public, and to Anonymous itself (in this phone call, for instance, ( http://cannotlinkto.com/...) CEO Aaron Barr makes a number of untrue statements regarding the intent of his "research," claiming for instance that he never tried to sell the information to the FBI when e-mails acquired soon showed that he had been set to do just that; executive Karen Burke was also caught lying to Bloomberg about having not seen an incriminating e-mail that she had in fact replied to just a few days before). The U.S. Chamber of Commerce lied about not having seen the criminal proposal created by them for Team Themis; Palantir lied about not having any idea what their employees were up to; Berico publicly denounced a plan that they had actively engaged in creating; etc. There is no corporation in existence will choose the truth when lies are more convenient.

3. To the contrary, Anonymous is an ironically transparent movement that allows reporters in to our operating channels to observe us at work and which has been extraordinarily candid with the press when commenting on our own activities, which is why reporters prefer to talk to us for truthful accounts of the situation rather than go to our degenerate enemies to be lied to.

4. Whoever broke into Sony's servers to steal the credit card info and left a document blaming Anonymous clearly wanted Anonymous to be blamed for the most significant digital theft in history. No one who is actually associated with our movement would do something that would prompt a massive law enforcement response. On the other hand, a group of standard online thieves would have every reason to frame Anonymous in order to put law enforcement off the track. The framing of others for crimes has been a common practice throughout history.

5. It should be remembered that several federal contractors such as HBGary and Palantir have been caught planning a variety of unethical and potentially criminal conspiracies by which to discredit the enemies of their clients. This is not a theory - this is a fact that has been reported at great length by dozens of journalists with major publications. Insomuch as that our enemies have either engaged in or planned to engage in false flag efforts, it should not be surprising that many of the journalists who have covered us, who know who we are and what motivates us - and who have alternatively seen the monstrous behavior of those large and "respectable" firms that are all too happy to throw aside common decency at the behest of such clients as Bank of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - also have their suspicions that some capable party performed this operation as a means by which to do great damage to Anonymous in the public eye. Those who consider such a prospect to be somehow unlikely are advised to read about what was proposed by Team Themis in their efforts to destroy Wikileaks, and should otherwise take a few minutes to learn about COINTELPRO and other admitted practices by the U.S. intelligence community. The fact is that Anonymous has brought a great deal of discomfort to powerful entities such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir, and much of the federal government; the Justice Department in particular is likely unhappy that our efforts revealed that it was they themselves who recommended the now-discredited "law firm" Hunton & Williams to Bank of America in order that the latter might better be able to fight back against Wikileaks. All of this is now public record, and anyone who finds it laughable that those or other entities may have again engaged in tactics that they are known to have engaged in in the past is not qualified to comment on the situation.

Anonymous will continue its work in support of transparency and individual liberty; our adversaries will continue their work in support of secrecy and control. The FBI will continue to investigate us for crimes of civil disobediance while continuing to ignore the crimes planned by major corporations with which they are in league.

We do not forget, even if others fail to remember.
We not forgive, even if others forgive our enemies for those things for which we are attacked.
We are legion, and will remain so no matter how many of our participants are raided by armed agents of a broken system.
We are Anonymous.

Originally posted to barrettbrown on Wed May 04, 2011 at 03:56 PM PDT.
Also republished by Anonymous Dkos.

i kind of hope it won't take as long as mentioned in this article

http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/17753/sony-hires-investigators-after-hack-of-customer-data/

so whats to happen to us bronze and silver memebers? we might not pay a monthly fee but we do still pay for things in game.what is our comensation going to be?

This is part of the total data collected by the May First Day.[img=195170] and once the shot May NINTH relaunces we are safe. EMS Electro Magnetic Spectromiter Imaging might be the altimate image ever recorded by mankind. Soon we earthlings will think similare. Let me see your gums! I know, this is none sequetur. BTW, get them "basstidert haakkers". Play some chess, watch some NASA channel, clean the computer, and back yard.

I hate the downtime just as much as everyone else but if they can make it "safer" and all that other junk they say they are gonig to do no big deal imo...we are already getting 30 days free and 1 day per day that its down.might as well say its going to be 30days and a week of free EQ.I for one know my wife faction has gotten better so when EQ comes back up i can kill all that hard earned fation in a massive grind session :OOOO

so according to the post below with the link on them hiring a firm to clean up after the breach, it states a lawsuit has already been filed against SOE... will a bunch of lawsuits cause them to shut down? Could this be the last days of Everquest? :(

Passing the link along

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42888279/ns/technology_and_science-security/

We know all you whaa babies are jonesing to get back into your fantasy world and away from responsibility but alas Sony has to work in the real world where problems take time, no TPs, no time jumps. Beside whats the worst that could happen huh? Get something done that you have been neglecting, go fishing, go help someone. Today i'm tilling garden and getting ready to help my daughter move out of state. Bit*hing, whining, and making threats isn't going to make things go any faster.