[ambiguity]

If it is your credit card information, you would seem to be the victim. In that case Sony is playing the role similar to the US government and is only offering you a shirt instead of a bullet proof vest.

The original analogy though is only accurate depending on where this is taking place. A person living in the suburbs would seem silly for wearing a bullet proof vest. A person walking into a war zone without a vest is an idiot. The question is, which of the two locations best describes the internet.

[dedward]

If it's my credit card information then all the merchants who end up passing my card fraudulently are the victims, because they are the ones who won't get paid.

I won't have to pay a dime for transactions I didn't authorize.

I suppose I could call "victim" for having to watch my statements more closely, but everyone does that anyway, right?