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 Korea’s 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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Sound like Chia chub want advance copy of the interview he got tick off that he didn’t get it
So he hack the system LOL!
All 1024 of their IP addresses?
“Aw, they’re still going with that storyline, eh?”
My thoughts were “why are we announcing our capabilities?”. They’ve been flogging this North Korean horse since day one.
The Government did something right? Fiction.
Sounds like an undersea cable tap.
I just realized the NYT now just outed the NSA.
Cable taps are usually ultra top secret
Let's see North Korea has only 2 cites that have some form of electricity. They can't even feed their people. Oh but we are suppose to believe that somehow North Korea are computer geniuses. LOL!
Yeah and the Easter Bunny, Keebler Elves and Unicorns REALLY exist.
I do believe that NK has a bunch of computer experts operating against the West from there.
But the experts are Chinese.
If you believe it.
With our liar and chief, I can’t believe anything anymore.
Right. From the same people who told us that Benghazi was due to a YouTube video.
FBI stated on the news that the NSA had hacked the NK computers and that they were sure that the IPs used in the Sony hack were those of the NK computers.
Even the most backward FBI super agents should have learned about “IP spoofing” in their Introduction to Basic Computing courses at the FBI Lab. They should have noted that the “real security experts” dissed the IPs evidence immediately as intended distractions.
This was their super secret national security evidence that they could not disclose earlier. Now, how do they explain that the initial extortion request was for $200 million dollars with no mention of the “lemon” movie? How do they explain how the hackers zeroed in on specific servers and application files without inside information? And how do they explain removing several terra-bytes of information unnoticed over the equivalent of a T-1 internet connection?
BS.
Good question.
Okay how would it be advantageous for North Korea, that barely has electricity in 2 cities (think of all the empty buildings), can’t feed their own people (they are basically a joke) to hack Hollywood stars at Sony and then deny it???
North Korea loves to brag when they do anything.
Think who really gains from this?
The feds that have been looking for ANY EXCUSE to control the Internet. Who gains from this and who loses. This is not rocket science.
Moreover, to believe the certified on the record lying politicians. Give me a break!
The feds that have been looking for ANY EXCUSE to control the Internet. Who gains from this and who loses. This is not rocket science.
It wouldn't be this administration's first false flag operation.
Recall that Operation Fast & Furious was mounted -- not to track the route weapons were taking to the cartels -- but to provide a rationale for subversion of the 2nd Amendment.
Now, this administration wants to control the internet. How far do you suppose they'd go to accomplish that objective?
By any means necessary.
Obama releasing this Classified method is like Jimmy carter Bragging about the Ultra Secret Stealth Bomber
Hmmmm. Reminds me of when German troops in Polish uniforms attacked a German radio station near the Polish-German frontier...
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