Posted on 12/18/2014 3:33:23 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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.
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.
...and the Manchurian’s response is to give support to a Communist dictator who repressed the citizenry of the nation.
...and the Manchurian’s response is to give support to a Communist dictator who repressed the citizenry of the nation.
“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
***ping***
I’m sure 0bama will send a sternly worded letter.
Whoopee.
“BIG defeat for the US and Japan here”
And a surrender monkey in the whitehut. The perfect dunce to
pull nuclear blackmail on.
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. . .
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...
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.
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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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?
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.
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.
That is my belief, too.
Wait til they put the grid down. That’s going to be interesting.
If one thinks he dangerous now wait until his term is near the end.
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