Posted on 12/26/2014 5:15:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A number of private security researchers are increasingly voicing doubts that the hack of Sony‘s computer systems was the work of North Korea.
President Obama and the F.B.I. last week accused North Korea of targeting Sony and pledged a “proportional response” just hours before North Korea’s Internet went dark without explanation. But security researchers remain skeptical, with some even likening the government’s claims to those of the Bush administration in the build-up to the Iraq war.
Fueling their suspicions is the fact that the government based its findings, in large part, on evidence that it will not release, citing the “need to protect sensitive sources and methods.” The government has never publicly acknowledged doing so, but the National Security Agency has begun a major effort to penetrate North Korean computer networks.
Because attributing the source of a cyberattack is so difficult, the government has been reluctant to do so except in the rarest of circumstances. So the decision to have President Obama charge that North Korea was behind the Sony hack suggested there is some form of classified evidence that is more conclusive than the indicators that the F.B.I. made public on Friday. “It’s not a move we made lightly,” one senior administration official said after Mr. Obama spoke.
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What makes you think that emperor 0bama will be “going”?
The Nork.
We’d have to neutron bomb DC to preserve the historic buildings. But most of the denizens there could be terminated as far as I’m concerned.
Not at all difficult when your own NSA did the deed. I got well flamed the other day for expressing this idea but the simple solution is that the NSA did the hack job on Sony and the Norks. They had the means and the opportunity and the Jug Eared field hand in the White Hut has the motive.
Obama said NK did it —that’s a VERY good reason to doubt that the claim is true.
Benghazi, F&F, YouCanKeepYourDoctor, LackTransparencyGivesAdvantage...
“What makes you think that emperor 0bama will be “going”?”
He’s basically lazy!
Who could it be? Tel Aviv,Russians,Ukranians,mid-easters, independent anarchists? The spin of NK as China’s errant step-child is laughable. But who is to blame? Beats me.
The NSA is run by government employees who are collecting pay checks but mostly don’t give a damn about what they are actually doing. It is just another example of how little is actually accomplished when the government spends hundreds of billions of dollars on hardware run by thousands of bureaucrats. The NSA has managed to morph into the super secret intelligence wing of the Democrat party.
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