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In some regions, like the UK, you have to upload either a photocopy of a personal ID or a photograph of your face to verify your age before creating a PSN account. I think it's fair to be uncomfortable with it when you have to trust Sony, a company with notoriously bad cybersecurity, not to leak it to criminals.
Tbh I'm kinda amazed Sony hasn't gotten fucked in court due to their negligence yet.
Their security is really effective when they want it to be. For an example, afaik the DRM they use for theater DCPs has never been cracked. It took 4 yrs for the PS5 to get jailbroken and even then you can't jailbreak the newest firmware yet. The ps4's newest firmware has just been cracked, and so on.
They can make their consoles secure enough that it takes a while to crack them despite being literally, physically in the hands of hackers, yet they can't keep their cloud data secure to save their lives.
The difference is that the firmware presents a tiny attack surface. You can't social-engineer machine code, or use an unsecured access point to gain entry.
It is truly amazing how you are forced to do that in the UK, for a company regularly getting hacked. Before disposable virtual credit cards, I always charger my account with coupons, to avoid giving them my financial data.
If you live in the US, the government practically hands your data over to credit score agencies.
Agencies that HAVE been hacked in the past, as well. People are too ignorant for their own good if they're this pissed at Sony whilst Equifax isn't burned to the ground...
Really? I've never done that for my PSN account and I'm in the UK
Was not downplaying the other arguments, just putting emphasis on the argument I heard first. The “take my info” argument is just as valid.