Sony Hackers Threaten Terrorist Attacks on American Soil

[jordan179]

Hackers, very obviously agents of the North Korean government, have for a while now been trying to shut down a movie, The Interview, because it depicts an assassination attempt upon the Sacred Personage of the North Korean leader, mad tyrant Kim Jong Un.  Previous attacks on Sony included interference with commerce and other cyber-crimes committed

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[anonymous]

Relax, its North Korea, the short bus of nation-states.

[jordan179]

North Korea actually has a record of launching uprovoked armed raids against other countries. Not just South Korea, either. So I'd be worried about this.

[banner]

Hmm, so should I write a book about how I made Kim my gay love slave? Or maybe make a youtube of him sucking my dick?

Would be fun to do, wonder if I'd get a response like Sony is?

[xiphias]

I just re-read this.

You BELIEVE NK about claiming responsibility for this? C'mon. I suppose they COULD have done it -- ANYBODY could have done it. I can point to three people on my friends list who could probably have done it. (Growing up, I hung around the periphery of the hacker/cracker community. I can't do anything, never successfully hacked into ANYTHING in my life, but some of my friends went on to be pretty high-level white-hats.) So, sure, North Korea could have.

But so could anybody else. Believing North Korea when they claim to have hacked Sony is like believing North Korea when they claim that Kim Jong Il had the world's first negative golf handicap and can call lightning from his fingertips or whatever else they've come up with this week.

[jordan179]

You BELIEVE NK about claiming responsibility for this?

Oh, if they actively claim responsibility for this, we should bomb them anyway, whether they did it or not. We need to hammer home the lesson that America doesn't take that sort of claim lightly.

[banner]

The previous tyrant actually had a movie star kidnapped and brought to Korea from Japan. Don't remember if he raped her or not, but he wanted her, so he took her and NO ONE did ANYTHING.

North Korea has been pulling stunts like this for years, kidnappings, murder, assassination, whatever. Do you really think that the new tyrant wouldn't do something like this to stop from being made a fool of, like the south park crew did to his predecessor?

North Korea is the only one who would spend the millions of dollars to do this. This isn't just a hack, its active espionage, by agents, here in the US. How else did a country with third rate hackers get in? Physical security breaches and bribes of course. Just par for the course, because they know our government won't do a thing, even if they start killing people over at Sony. They're just label it 'workplace violence' and ignore it.

[jordan179]

North Korea has, notably, refrained from doing this sort of thing to Americans on American soil in the past. Or even seriously threatening it.

What's different now? Kim Jong Un could see, like everyone else, Obama's weakness -- and scapegoating of American movie makers -- over the Benghazi terrorist attack of 2012. He probably assumes that Obama will simply blame Sony and the theaters this time should he strike.

That is what weakness brings one -- more attacks.

[shockwave77598]

My Conjob sensors went off on day one of this. My sense is that this is nothing but an advertising ploy by Sony to get people into seats to watch the movie. This is simply pushing buttons on Americans to get them to go see a movie they wouldn't have ordinarily seen, just to show those crummy North Koreans.

Of course, I could be wrong. But if there is a link to nk that's even capable of transporting 100TB of data in less than a decade, I don't know about it.

[jordan179]

The hackers don't have to be physically-located in North Korea.

Get Moose and Squirrel

[silent_o]

I do not fear North Korea. The military force they are capable of projecting is so laughable their only remotely plausible tactic for crossing the DMZ is a human wave attack. Their agents abroad are rarely more effective than Boris and Natasha. This posturing is nothing new.

Why not just cut off all US aid permanently and wait for the peasantry to starve and/or revolt? Not our responsibility anyway. We have more pressing domestic issues.
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On my more cynical and bitter days an isolationist Fortress America seems more attractive than ludicrous. Out of the UN. Cease foreign aid of any sort. Let the rest of the world pay their own butcher bills for once. Respond to any attack with overwhelming force of arms, burn the farms, salt the earth, and leave them to rebuild on their own dime while our boys are sipping coffee in their nice warm barracks Stateside.

And then I remember that without us to back them up Israel is screwed. Back down to Earth with me.