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Ep. 821: Where the water's polluted with germs
Created: 05/11/2011
Video description: After 26 days service outage, Sony finally kickstarted its Playstation Network last week, allowing users to resume online gameplay. It turns out the original server hack was hosted on Amazon's EC2 Cloud Computing network, but the outages aren't over yet though--the servers crashed again after being flooded for password resets.

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