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Asrialys
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Isn't their stuff on Vrv as well? |
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Яeverse
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A free month of premium service is step of good faith and restores faith in their service. Never forget netflix even refunded for downtime, crunchyroll never does https://consumerist.com/2009/09/01/netflix-refunds-your-money-without-you-even-asking/ |
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Asrialys
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The services are a bit different. You can't watch Netflix for free for one... |
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Cam0
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I wish that was feasible but with a bazillion accounts across dozens of services and websites it's simply too much of a hassle to have a different password for each one of 'em. I have a unique password for the important things like emails, Steam, PSN and such, and have like a general password for the dozens of lesser services. I just changed my passwords due to the ANN hack and now I have to do it all over again? FML. 
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Kadmos1
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Asrialys, most of the CR and Funi catalog (I'd guess 90%-95%) are on VRV. Well, as long as the simulcasts appear on VRV on time, that should be good (for the territories VRV is available in).
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Somer-_-
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Not much happening Saturday morning anyway. If this happened when BnHA was airing though...
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invalidname
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In a DNS attack like this, I'd actually say no. The attackers are just redirecting traffic to their server; it's not like they have access to Crunchyroll's backend data where your credentials (hashcodes of your username and password, presumably) are stored. Just a coder, not an expert; security specialists may feel otherwise. |
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Utsuro no Hako
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It's totally feasible. Just use a password manager like KeePass to generate and store arbitrarily long, totally random passwords to each site you use. I couldn't even tell you what my passwords are because they're all gibberish like aGsh28%Jb6gxld&bn7d. When I need to log on, I just ctrl-c/ctrl-v. |
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HoboSoup
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I mean if you're not looking forward to anything on Saturday right now that's fine. However there are still a good amount of shows airing on Saturday for Crunchyroll that other people are looking forward to. March Comes In Like A Lion Season 2 The Ancient Magus And The Bride Love Live Season 2 Kekkai Sensen Season 2 Blend S Code:Realize Two Car IdolMaster Side M Time Bokan + Any other shows I might have missed. Regardless of your opinion on any of these shows, it's a pretty big day for Crunchyroll streaming. Saturday is usually the biggest day and I think whoever messed with the website knows this. They did this on a day they knew has a lot of traffic, which is even more messed up. They're ruining the Saturday morning for those of us that are looking forward to any of these series. Last edited by HoboSoup on Sat Nov 04, 2017 9:55 am; edited 1 time in total |
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sailorsweeper
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I was waiting for Blend S, Folktales from Japan and Cardfight Vanguard GZ. So this is really annoying
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Demonskid
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And I was hoping to finish .hack//ROOTS today. Oh well.. -puts on netflix-
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Takkun4343
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So as long as I don't actually download anything, my laptop's in the clear?
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invalidname
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Long-term, this has gotta be a huge black eye for Crunchyroll. By traffic, they're one of the world's top streaming sites -- not Netflix maybe, but who is? -- but I don't think we've ever heard of any streaming site of this scale having their site taken over by hackers. If we saw CBS All Access, HBO Go, or Twitch being taken out by hackers, maybe we could say it comes with the territory. But this is surprising and frankly unacceptable given Crunchyroll's prominence in the industry, and their presumable resources.
I do wonder if the corporate culture will eventually become less loosey-goosey and more buttoned-down after this. I hope not. But obviously, there will have to be some changes to prevent anything like this from happening again. I also wonder if any blame can be laid at the mass-layoff of Crunchyroll engineers a few months back (IIUC, they outsourced a bunch of stuff, and that's why people like Evan Minto aren't there anymore). |
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Melicans
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What was the result of the ANN hack anyways? Is .com safe to use again or should I stick with .cc? Hopefully CR don't have to wait a few weeks to get their domain back...
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FlowerAiko
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As of right now CR said it's just a DNS Hack and that personal information is safe, but don;t let your guard down yet until they have all the details.
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