While Western gamers are champing at the bit to get their PlayStation 3s back online, it seems that Sony's native Japanese government isn't quite ready to forgive it of its security woes that led to weeks of downtime.
And that's probably the reason you've not seen many Japanese PSN accounts go live over the weekend - Japan has not approved Sony to go ahead with the restoration process until it can prove that it has taken the necessary steps to improve its network.
The director of Media and Content Industry department in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (phew), Kazushige Nobutani, has informed the Dow Jones newswire that there are still two areas of concern for the government before it can approve Sony's flick of the PSN 'on' switch.
First of all, the Ministry alleges that anti-hacking measures promised by Sony on May 1st have yet to be acted upon. Secondly, Japan wants to see further preventative action taken to protect user data, particularly credit card and other private information.
Seems fair to us. What do you reckon?
Source: Dow Jones
And that's probably the reason you've not seen many Japanese PSN accounts go live over the weekend - Japan has not approved Sony to go ahead with the restoration process until it can prove that it has taken the necessary steps to improve its network.
The director of Media and Content Industry department in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (phew), Kazushige Nobutani, has informed the Dow Jones newswire that there are still two areas of concern for the government before it can approve Sony's flick of the PSN 'on' switch.
First of all, the Ministry alleges that anti-hacking measures promised by Sony on May 1st have yet to be acted upon. Secondly, Japan wants to see further preventative action taken to protect user data, particularly credit card and other private information.
Seems fair to us. What do you reckon?
Source: Dow Jones
Companies:
Sony
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