Obama's Bumbling, Stumbling America Loses its First Cyber War to a Hotel Room Full of Nork Kids

Reaganite Republican ^ | 18 December 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

As Newt Gingrich noted yesterday, the surrender by Sony Pictures to a shadowy group of North Korean hackers has set a chilling precedent...
just wait 'til they grab hold of one of our nuclear plants
(like the Israelis already did  to Iran)...

BIG defeat for the US and Japan here, and a terrifying incident, to be sure (that's why they call it 'terrorism')- so now this little tinpot-nothing-of-a-country has substantial unchecked power/influence right inside the United States of America? Can you imagine Ronald Reagan/Cap Weinberger letting this go down without KJU being made to seriously regret it?

Of course, Obama was too busy strapping-on-the-kneepads/bowing to grizzled octogenarian commies in Havana to be concerned with Hollywood's Sony Pictures being brought to their knees -involuntarily- by some other commies from Pyongyang. And what's the difference between these two vile, failed, and oppressive regimes, really?

Remember how Obama was portrayed as this really modern, high-tech president when he and David Plouffe were exploiting social media to put/keep them in power? NOW that we need them to drive technological development
-fighting cyber-terrorism emanating from an utterly hostile state - he's somehow suddenly absorbed in ill-advised dealings with the Castros
(for no pressing or beneficial reason I can even imagine). 

Willing loser Obama will explain-away our defeat at the hands of North Korea with some droning, hollow horse%$#&, point a finger (in some other direction that his own), and do nothing, in all likelihood. After all, DHS have got their hands full bussing-in illegal immigrants, while the CIA/NSA are probably too busy compiling lists of TEA partiers to be rounded-up when his (orchestrated) martial law hits. Shame that Ferguson ran out of steam, but there'll be other fires to stoke.

The (victorious) North Korean government hacking squad is said to have teens as young as 17 working to attack/control computer systems belonging to Pyongyang's 'enemies', both real and imagined. These geeks-for-socialism are known as Bureau 121, engaging in what's known as 'The Secret War' against primarily South Korean, Japanese, and American targets. The program employs over 1800 'soldiers' in all... and it appears they're just getting started.

DPRK Bureau 121's top hacking squad reportedly headquartered 
at the Chilbosan Hotel in nearby/cross-border Shenyang, China

With a major cell operating out of a hotel just over the border in China, the program attracts the North Korea's very best-and-brightest, with relatively high pay and status for the Hermit Kingdom. Defectors revealed that the group has pounded-away at South Korean sites for five years now. Worse yet, the Norks have been working on violating military computer systems for quite some time too... unsettlingly, nobody really knows how far they've gotten with it.

Alas, the bottom line is we are very, very vulnerable to even a small, impoverished regime like the DPRK -who actually resorted to the strategy out of necessity (brought by military weakness)- so hard not to wonder what the Russians are going to unleash on us now that the wounded bear has backed-itself into a corner, bleeding- they've got zillions of hackers, and have been messing with US banks and other institutions already. Russia is now just another failed, angry dictatorship with an axe to grind (and on a budget)...
so expect the worst from Ivan, going forward.

Perhaps President Obama would find it most easy, immediate, and
-most importantly- beneficial to his own ruinous political/personal agenda to just surrender to North Korea and establish relations there, too- why not, you traitorous *#&$%.

[9YearLurker]

Let’s not fool ourselves. They’re operating in China and thus with China’s blessing.

NK is China’s freakish puppet, but we can’t bring ourselves to admit to that.

[IamConservative]

I started out in Electronics Engineering and since have moved to IT. Used to be an old joke: “Electronics Engineers make weapons. Civil Engineers make targets.” That Hotel looks like a fine target to me, and further to the point, makes me question the veracity of the claim the hackers are housed there.

[SoFloFreeper]

...and the Manchurian’s response is to give support to a Communist dictator who repressed the citizenry of the nation.

[SoFloFreeper]

...and the Manchurian’s response is to give support to a Communist dictator who repressed the citizenry of the nation.

[Reaganite Republican]

“NK is China’s freakish puppet, but we can’t bring ourselves to admit to that.
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I can sure see it. Seems obvious to any intellectually honest person

[Reaganite Republican]

***ping***

[R. Scott]

I’m sure 0bama will send a sternly worded letter.
Whoopee.

[Slambat]

“BIG defeat for the US and Japan here”

And a surrender monkey in the whitehut. The perfect dunce to
pull nuclear blackmail on.

[iontheball]

It is fascinating, serious, scary, and revolutionary. A world class cyber chess game. It sounds like it is checkmate time. Fold up the board. Apparently we do not have the brainpower to win this one. This game doesn’t require huge militaries, just super mental capability. More to come. . .

[Popman]

I think this is a form of black mail against Hollywood by this administration...

Keep the money coming or their might be more attacks like Sony...

I would like to think we have the capability to stop this type of attacks....

Sometimes doing nothing is sending a message...

[Tallguy]

It wouldn’t surprise me if the hackers were physically together in a single location. OTOH, it could just be the computer servers though. With NK’s infrastructure, a large luxury hotel would likely serve as an important node on their communications network.

[Mr. K]

This is not a national security issue- it is a SONY issue (failure to secure their computers and internet systems)

Hire people that know how to set up a secure website, and use internet firewalls and security for keeripe’s sake...

So the norks hacks a movie company’s computer... big deal. It’s like ISIS believers taking over a coffee shop in Australia or “capturing” a school full of children.

How hard is that? You open the door and walk in...

SONY should fire their web people, that’s for sure

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[newnhdad]

what this has shown is that the US government is not willing or able to protect US assets against all forms of aggression. They just allowed a foreign government dictate to the American people what they can and can’t do inside the borders of the US using force. That has never happened before. The last time someone tried that was around 1812. They just showed the world that you don’t need to challenge those guns behind the blades of grass to conquer the US.
What are you willing to change to appease a communist dictator?

[iontheball]

Hire people that know how to set up a secure website, and use internet firewalls and security for keeripe’s sake...
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If man builds the lock, there is a man who can hack it.

[IamConservative]

Hire people that know how to set up a secure website, and use internet firewalls and security for keeripe’s sake...

If it were that simple, there would be no systems compromised ever. Think about all the devices in the Sony network that were manufactured in China. Think how easy it would be for the CHICOM to put backdoors in those devices and then get their evil doers in DPRK to walk through those back doors. Not too long ago, there was a flood of black market Cisco network gear that was made in China circulating in the US. Think that stuff was secure? Think any of it is in service?

Plain and simply put, information security is at best an illusion and at worst an oxymoron.

[Irenic]

That is my belief, too.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Wait til they put the grid down. That’s going to be interesting.

[Vaduz]

If one thinks he dangerous now wait until his term is near the end.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Reaganite Republican.

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