Rumor: Sony's Director of Information Security at SOE is a Pirate?

[SKFU]

SONY is always whining about piracy and how evil pirates are. But are they better themselves? Not really!

While I browsed the web lately, I read a bit about http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bryan-blank/3/681/bb2, the Director of Information Security at SONY Online Entertainment.

Getting a bit more interested I found his private homepage (http://www.asdfg.org/).

Domain Name:ASDFG.ORG
Created On:28-Nov-2004 00:10:59 UTC
Last Updated On:02-Dec-2009 19:05:57 UTC
Expiration Date:28-Nov-2010 00:10:59 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:CR31049087
Registrant Name:bryan blank
Registrant Street1:torrey pines road
Registrant City:la jolla
Registrant State/Province:California
Registrant Postal Code:92037
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.2033511178
Registrant Email:bryan@wezl.org

By random searching for interesting links I explored the directory "http://www.asdfg.org/uploads/" which contains a lot of illegal hosted, copyrighted music.

So, who are the pirates? We are? You are? Funny to see that SONY's bosses are only normal humans with a bit of normal piracy thoughts as well.

- SKFU


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[PS3 News]

Quite ironic... if those "file downloads" are gone in coming hours/days it will mean someone asked him about this I suppose.

[Bakke]

pffft, worst news ever if this is true.

[red8316]

pffft, worst news ever if this is true.

Nah, I think is great news. It's always interesting to see what I suppose you would call high up personnel do in their free time. Director of Information Security providing access to copyrighted material is quite ironic I think. Someone probably isn't going to like this. Nice find SKFU

[livpool]

hmm hosting remixes of songs isn't illegal if they are not paid-for songs.. which they're not.

[PS3 News]

True indeed, if that is all "homebrew" (non-commercial) music then it shouldn't be an issue.

However, according to the contents in the "incoming.rar" I see mp3's from: Clipse - Til The Casket Drops which appears to be commercial.

[Bakke]

Nah, I think is great news. It's always interesting to see what I suppose you would call high up personnel do in their free time. Director of Information Security providing access to copyrighted material is quite ironic I think. Someone probably isn't going to like this. Nice find SKFU

Might like to see a couple XBOX360 isos in this folder instead for absolute fun hahaha.

[red8316]

Might like to see a couple XBOX360 isos in this folder instead for absolute fun hahaha.

Haha definitely. Couple XBOX iso's would be over the top.

[dante489]

all security guys were pirates and if not, they were into piracy, they are all hypocrites.

[ultrachez]

lol.. checked the link, its already down. Must have caused him quite a panic. Found this piece of news quite amusing.