Posted on 01/04/2015 4:21:10 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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01.02.15
U.S. Spies Say They Tracked ‘Sony Hackers’ For Years
American spies have detailed dossiers on the North Koreans who the U.S. says were behind the Sony attack. But the still-secret evidence likely won’t convince skeptics.
The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies for years have been tracking the hackers who they believe to be behind the cyber attack on Sony, according to current and former American officials. And during that long pursuit, U.S. agencies accumulated still-classified information that helps tie the hackers to the recent Sony intrusion.
The Obama administration announced a round of sanctions against North Korea Friday, and explicitly said the measures were in retaliation for the “destructive and coercive cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.”
But investigators pinned the Sony attack on North Korea in early December, not long after the FBI began investigating the breach and almost three weeks before President Obama publicly pointed the finger at the Hermit Kingdom in a December 19 news conference, according to two individuals with knowledge of the case. The Obama administration waited to go public not because officials weren’t confident in the intelligence, but because the White House was weighing the significant policy decision of whether to publicly tie a nation-state to a specific cyber attack on U.S. soil for the first time.
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Ah, yes, secret evidence.
same mo as Benghazi.....we know....can’t tell you...
Seems we should be putting sanctions on Japan for not protecting their American buyers.
But Obama is just being clever. There are already a bazillion sanctions on North Korea. These new ones mean nothing.
And the UN has been after North Korea for humanitarian reasons.
Obama is just thumping his meagher chest over nothing.
The secret word is “say”.
Personally I don’t trust any thing that the current federal my administration says. It centers on the Benghazi video narrative and what grubber promulgated for them.
...and in all the years you supposedly observed the hermit kingdom hacking of a US Corp you fornicating donkeys never warned SONY.
Behaving in a manner as to eliminate trust does have problems.
Problems like you’re not ever believed.
‘swhat happens when every agency in government becomes politicized by the Obolas.
Usually I’m a warhawk, but frankly this isn’t cause enough to put an end to the pustule that is North Korea.
We’ve tolerated their kidnapping, murder, counterfeiting and drug dealing for decades, so nuking them for a bit hacking is bit excessive even by my scale of things.
If they caused a major disruption with loss of life, that might be sufficient reason to pave there cities with radioactive glass - but stealing the email of a corporation? Big deal.
True. Usually that kind of tolerance requires a trade agreement, like with China.
Some FReepers are missing in action.
I was thinking about TLR just the other day.
He’s had some breaks between posts in the past, so I hope he’s okay.
I’ve asked about TLR’s mysterious absences in the past — no answer. I do worry about where his job takes him.
American in Tokyo is rather scarce these days, too.
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