'The Interview' - Sony Hacked - North Korea Wins

Basically North Korea just made Sony and the United States look like pussies. So much for we will not back to terrorist demands.

 

This really is embarrassing. South Koreans aren't afraid of North Korea's threats. That lunatic has been making nonsensical threats for years, but threaten 9/11 and we think it is going to be the Red Dawn remake come to fruition.

This is a fucking disaster. really? North Korea is going to attack the United States? and because of a movie? my fucking God, no wonder the black community hates white people so much.

 

I've been following this since the beginning and every day it gets worst for Sony. Sony is run by dumb asses who put their password in a folder called passwords and every year they get hacked and fail to learn from it.

Sony of Japan should not have gave the green light for the crap movie to begin with and honesty I can see how north korea/china (they most likely did the hacking) would frown on this movie.

And let's not pretend it was going to do great in the U.S to begin with.

This isn't James Bond, it's a sh!t movie that should be dumped if Sony wants peace because face it, the hackers hold the most weight here not Sony.

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On the other hand, what a great way to manufacture interest in some shitty movie I'd otherwise have zero likelihood of ever paying to see.

 

Don't be so sure this is all North Korea's doing. I'm sure they were involved but making a terrorist threat like they made has much larger, global implications. If the United States took the bait and began a military confrontation with North Korea, that would put us right on China's doorstep and seriously risk WW3.

Russia's economy is in the tank, and Iran has been working on chopping us down in the cyber arena for years. Iran has been providing technical consultation to North Korea. North Korea also does not have the capacity to pull off an exploit of this magnitude on their own.

There is far more going on here than North Korea being pissed about a Seth Rogen movie.

 

The U.S. was never going to retaliate militarily against North Korea for hacking a private company. And the threat isn't any different than any of North Koreas handful of other threats since baby Kim Jong took over, other than the difference that dumbfuck Americans actually got scared of it.

 

When the cartoon of Muhammad was an issue it didn't cause nearly this reaction. The theaters felt there was a legitimate threat to their industry and acted accordingly.

We have a new defense Secretary that in 2006 was advocating we preemptively bomb north Korea before they test fired (unsuccessfully) their ICBM.

Global politics is a game of chess. Terrorism has successfully incited fear in this case, and fear causes people to do some pretty stupid things sometimes.

We likely will not have a military confrontation with North Korea, but this incident is going to set a precedent for how the United States responds to cyber terrorism. There has been a long standing debate whether this sort of situation should be seen as an act of war or something else entirely. We will find out soon how the Obama administration intends to handle this.

 

Aaaand the pussification of America continues full speed ahead. I'm surprised obama hasnt apologized to North Korea yet.

 

it was probably pulled more due to the hackers having 100TB of data that becomes more damaging for Sony everyday. Maybe an attack could of happened, not from N.K but by some nut who would think it was cool to live up to the hackers promise. W/e it is Sony lost and it was smart for them to throw the movie in the trash.

As for the attacks, I believed this years ago that this is the new way of war. Cyber attacks are a legit concern and I think the only solution is to not put highly detailed information on a NETWORK in the first place. Go back to the old paper in a locked cabinet. That way someone from india can't read information from their basement.

Lastly its funny how Americans are shocked that N.K could do such a think. Americans have a way of thinking down on others elsewhere around the world as if they dont have a brain or muscle to come up with sophisticated attacks. As I learned when taking computer programming; every computer has a backdoor, you just need to know where to look. If you are dedicated enough to gain access, one day you will and the Chinese, Koreans, whoever Americans think are stupid can outsmart us here at home easily.

 

I see several issues here. First is that Sony brought this on itself with the entire premise of the movie. Even making a comedy about the assassination of a Head of State is NOT good business. Even if we absolutely HATE LiL Kim, you can't joke around with this sort of thing. If a movie were made for mass distribution about the assassination of a sitting US President by a hostile nation all hell would be raised. There's a reason why assassinating a sitting Head of State simply isn't advocated publically by any gov't worldwide. It may be comedy to Sony, but DPRK is not laughing which brings me to point 2.

Seems that a lot countries these days have dedicated cyberwarfare units online and waging a shadow war against the West. This exposes just how vulnerable our IT infrastructure really is. Not only were Sony's email servers hacked, the possibility of further action forced Sony to withdraw the movie and in the process, I've heard put them $200m in the hole.

We're constantly being warned that our national infrastructure is vulnerable to hacking by hostile Nations yet no solid program has been put forth to combat this publically. Why there isn't a "Manhattan project" to both create a vastly higher defense of our infrastructure and the creation of a US based Cyberwarrior division is a mystery that needs to be addressed.

If the next war starts as a cloud based attack, the US needs to be prepared. US businesses have much to lose in any cyberwar so they should happily be funding advanced projects to protect and harden their own IT Networks.

Anything less is inviting a Cyber Pearl Harbor that the US may not be able to recover from. The clock is ticking....

 

SONY's going down the drain. I invested money in a PS4, starting to wonder if it survives while SONYs worth continues to drop.......

 

I like his death, Poe

 

The Cyber Manhattan project does exist, it's called the NSA and it is extremely unpopular right now.

 

Unpopular but necessary. Kinda like the IRS. I'd sure like to think there's a well funded cyberwarfare division somewhere in the US DoD.

 

You don't like that Brown Sugar, North Korea?

 

I feel sorry for the South Korean people having to live under a such a ruthless tyrant. But am I supposed to care about a Hollywood
film studio getting hacked? I have my rent to pay soon! WTF

 

Steve Carell movie cancelled also

 

South Koreans don't live under a dictator.

I used to work for a Korean company and anytime the Kim Jong buffoon made a threat they just laughed. They were never concerned about any military threat from North Korea, yet Americans shit their pants like they truly had the ability to pull off an actual terrorist attack halfway across the world.

 

UNDER North is the opposite of South