your all misinformed thinking this is for any type of testing, this type of attack is about as basic, and old as they come! there is no security measures that can be gained from this type of attack, there is no way to stop someone from launching one of a server, but there is a very simple and cheap way to thwart this type of attack once its been launched on a controlled server, fact is Sony doesnt fckn care, they got their money from the consumers already! they will use all this crap as a "added feature" or "upgrade" and promote it as such and charge extra for this new other worldly new feature when they sell their next unit, microsoft will do the same. its actually really funny thinking about how many of you seriously think a ddos attack is high tech hacker shit, you all have been watching too many mission impossible and matrix movies, its not a hack unless information,money, digital media,or documentations are directly gathered from the process of the "HACK" everything else is aol chatroom wannabe's this includes ddos attacks that "have crippled sony and microsoft" bullshit, it was sony and microsoft doing the little tickle attacks to themselves for later monetary gain!!!! .....................................yep, microsoft, the fckn creator of the most used op system ever had their servers hacked!!!! if you believe that, your a moron!