Posted on 01/19/2015 3:38:23 PM PST by John W
WASHINGTON The trail that led American officials to blame North Korea for the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November winds back to 2010, when the National Security Agency scrambled to break into the computer systems of a country considered one of the most impenetrable targets on earth.
Spurred by growing concern about North Koreas maturing capabilities, the American spy agency drilled into the Chinese networks that connect North Korea to the outside world, picked through connections in Malaysia favored by North Korean hackers and penetrated directly into the North with the help of South Korea and other American allies, according to former United States and foreign officials, computer experts later briefed on the operations and a newly disclosed N.S.A. document.
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hmmmmmm
>> If I were a tinfoiler, Id say were being set up for some sort of false flag event involving North Korea. <<
Yep, and if you really were a tinfoiler, you’d be a step ahead of Paul Craig Roberts. He has suggested (on the Ron Paul website) that the Charlie Hebdo attack could have been a false-flag operation.
Hacks can't even come up with an original lie anymore!
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