[VanDeKoik]

Oh please.

Act of war? Then you send you kids to die because a movie got pulled.

[lavaroise]

The intent of killing the messenger and the destroying the message is an act of direct control and war indeed. It is the cyber equivalent of the Taleban attack on girl school children to deny them access to education and expression development.

Except here it does not affect 150 school kids, it involves millions of potential viewers at once in a single attack.

[Bon mots]

Lil Kim is not afraid of the Groveler.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Wired claims that 'The Interview' was not the real target of the attack. This may be an inside job or an attempt at blackmail, i.e. a crime not an act of war.

More neocons beating the war drums.

[bert]

While it may have been an act of war , the attack was made on a Japanese company. The attack, actually a raid rather than an invasion, was to put the Japanese mega companies on notice of what is to come.

North Korea wants something from Japan and the movie in America is the leverage applied to get results at home in Japan. Toyota, Hitachi, Mitsui, Toshiba...... are being encouraged to assert their will on the Japanese government to attain what ever the Norks are wanting.

At base, it is ordinary blackmail, extortion

[DoodleDawg]

By all accounts the North Korean hackers were rank amateurs and there is no doubt that the cyber warfare areas in the Defense Department could bring what little networking North Korea has to its knees without breaking a sweat. But why would you do so in response to Sony's breakin and advertise to the world at least some of your capabilities? Wouldn't you save it for a serious conflict when you really need it?

All Sony would need to do is quietly go to the hacker community in the U.S., offer a sizeable reward to the ones who can do the most damage to North Korea, and sit back and watch the results.

[Gritty]

... the hackers IRS revealed their true and frightening purpose: to censor a movie free speech that the North Korean Obama government found offensive.

There. I fixed it. So, now the media and Liberals get their panties in a wad...?

[GBA]

Not in my world. Sony is a multinational company that I grew up thinking of as being Japanese.

Pearl Harbor was an act of war. Same for the attacks on 9/11.

This looks more like a company's failure to maintain its security followed by its capitulation to extortion.

Hard to know for sure what the real story is or what it is distracting us from.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The FBI is fully investigating and the White House is getting daily briefings. When Lockheed had 5000 engineering drawings for the F-35 stolen, the FBI and WH couldn’t have given less of a crap. Just shows where their priorities are.

[exit82]

Could this be a “Wag the Dog” scenario?

I see an early beneficiary is Al Sharpton, who will now have some say over the content of Sony’s films.

And who is Sharpton allied with?

Holder and Obama.

We have had serious security breaches and hacks of even DOD computers and ....silence.

But we should go to war over a hack of Sony Pictures?

Something smells here.