The PlayStation Network should be kept online until governments are satisfied the system now adequately protects customer privacy, an Australian security expert has argued.
Queensland University of Technology professor Bill Caelli points to the Japanese government's blocking of PSN's long-awaited return, warning that other countries shouldn't allow the service reboot until they can independently verify security.
Zoom"Why is it that in the IT industry enterprises certify themselves?" he said, adding that the general public has "no way of assessing the assurances given by the owners of the system themselves".
Yesterday SCEE finally confirmed that PSN services have started coming back online in Europe after over three weeks of online gaming blackout on PS3.
In Sony's home country of Japan, however, the government has halted the restart until Sony "provides further information on what measures it has taken to improve security".
"We met with Sony on May 6 and 13, and basically we want two things from them," said Kazushige Nobutani, director of the media and content industry department at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
"The first is preventative measures. As of May 13, Sony was incomplete in exercising measures that they said they will do on the May 1 press conference."
