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.
***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...
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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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.
This Sony break-in doesn't sound like cyber-war. It sounds like teen-age hackers playing gotcha. It sounds more like the amateur activities of "Anonymous," gleefully being destructive, instead of the moves of a nation-state acting against the interests of another power in the world. If the North Koreans had such sophistication, why waste it on a personal vendetta against Sony? Why not surreptitiously invade the military computers of South Korea? If they were wanting to destroy Sony, why release data? Why not just destroy the data in their computers? Erase the works in progress? Why depend on public release of ancient salary schedules to cause havoc? Communists would have no clue why that would harm a company. . . and certainly the unsophisticated Norks, not used to modern society would have even less.
This does not smack of any high degree of sophistication as the administration wants us to believe. From what I have read, Sony's computers were secured by weak passwords, and a degree of sloppiness in security design that most companies would have found appalling. Too many people had access to too many levels of their supposedly secure data. . . and data that should have long ago been archived was kept lying around in files for anyone to read. Too much was interconnected in the general servers without "need-to-know" passworded walls between them. Too many people had administrative level access. . . and those people had very weak, easily broken passwords.
I think there is another game being played out here.