Sony Pictures Hack - A Treasure Trove of Information

[Charismatic]

(and the subsequent refusal of many theaters to show it)

Pretty sure this was the killer because Sony was still going full steam ahead until they started pulling out.

[Cantih]

And now, we go full insano
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/entertainm...terview/njXbT/

[Tyrath]

Clearly, the porn industry has more balls than hollywood.

[Charismatic]

One would hope so.

[Titanss]

Using BG as an example isn't really good since historically the admins have folded like an origami crane.

lol

[Meresgi]

2 days old, FBI has since said it's North Korea.

/tinfoil hat but the evidence isn't 100%, even by their own admission from some of the articles i've read. Other then saying "This hack/malware/ip ranges match some stuff we've maybe seen from NK" ill be skeptical. Both because NK loves to wag their dicks over everything, even if they didn't even have a hand in it, and that the US government has shown itself to not be above stirring shit like this up. "NK is hacking us guys, see we need PRISM!!!!! Without it all our movies will get stolen!" /tinfoil hat off

Can't wait for the movie to pop up all over the internet within a few months though lol

[Cantih]

And I'm sure regardless of if it was or wasn't, the administration and agencies are LOVING all the sideshows drawing from the torture report.

[Quicklet]

/tinfoil hat but the evidence isn't 100%, even by their own admission from some of the articles i've read. Other then saying "This hack/malware/ip ranges match some stuff we've maybe seen from NK" ill be skeptical. Both because NK loves to wag their dicks over everything, even if they didn't even have a hand in it, and that the US government has shown itself to not be above stirring shit like this up. "NK is hacking us guys, see we need PRISM!!!!! Without it all our movies will get stolen!" /tinfoil hat off

Can't wait for the movie to pop up all over the internet within a few months though lol

Things that are equally plausible to North Korea being responsible at this point:

- It was an inside job by a disgruntled former employee (they laid off their entire digital marketing division in the past year) made to look like North Korea did it.

- False flag designed to sacrifice a bad movie to give pretext to attack Tor and encryption in an attempt to crack down on online distribution

- Most ballsy viral marketing campaign ever

[vagus]

This is such a shit storm. I am curious what else still needs to be leaked in terms of blackmail stuff. I don't think Sony really thinks a bombing will occur if the movie gets released.

[Koul]

Looks like North Korea is refuting the claims they're the ones behind the attack.

[Stromgarde]

An expected move, doesn't really say anything about whether they actually did it or not though.

[Anoat]

North Korea will soon publish a book on the subject, "If I Did It".

[Meresgi]

An expected move, doesn't really say anything about whether they actually did it or not though.

Is it really expected though? I mean they are batshit insane and will say whatever they can to get some sort of aid. Didn't they threaten to launch nukes at us at one point in the past few years?

- Most ballsy viral marketing campaign ever

This would be amazing

[Sho]

North Korea says that they didn't do it, then comes out with the statement "Beware 'Serious Consequences'."

Fuck those dudes. I hope the US government hires the best of the best hackers from around the US, UK, and Germany and hack these fucks right into the ground.

[Waraji]

Hack what exactly? I'm sure we already have their whole shit bugged anyway.

[arus2001]

Interesting article about Chaplin's film "The Great Dictator" which is a parody of Hitler. He financed, wrote, directed, and starred in the movie himself. It was the first time he ever spoke on film, and also happens to have the greatest speech ever given in film imo.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/cha...17f8c7d611f9?8

Spoiler: show

^ the speech

First time my honkey ass has seen it. Overall, I think the scary part is how pertinent the speech seems some 70-80 years later. Like, replace radio with the internet and the fact greedy fuckwits are still screwing with democracy and humanity and it's just kind of depressing since it also makes you want to sympathize with Hitler of all people.

[Sho]

Hack what exactly? I'm sure we already have their whole shit bugged anyway.

Just randomly mayad.

They don't have anything, it's just annoying they would claim innocence and threaten at the same time. But I guess it's no different from what they've been doing the last 20+ years anyways.

[Stromgarde]

Is it really expected though? I mean they are batshit insane and will say whatever they can to get some sort of aid. Didn't they threaten to launch nukes at us at one point in the past few years?

Espionage in general gets the 'deny everything' response from just about everyone. As crazy as North Korea is, I doubt that they would say 'We just hacked you, what are you going to do about it' when the White House is already planning some sort of retribution.

[Meresgi]

Just randomly mayad.

They don't have anything, it's just annoying they would claim innocence and threaten at the same time. But I guess it's no different from what they've been doing the last 20+ years anyways.

How are we different? We've literally been hacking every nation state in the world for the past 15-20yrs as is, while crying that they are trying to hack us. It's like the president and others stand there and bitch at NK doing this, then will openly say "Well our NSA has been trying to get into their networks for some time now!"

[Sho]

How are we different? We've literally been hacking every nation state in the world for the past 15-20yrs as is, while crying that they are trying to hack us. It's like the president and others stand there and bitch at NK doing this, then will openly say "Well our NSA has been trying to get into their networks for some time now!"

I'll preface this response by saying that there's no real response that I or anyone can say that wont lead to a slippery slope. It's obvious every nation hacks (and before the Internet Age have spies obtain intelligence through clandestine espionage) each other, but its more of the idea of what is done with the stolen data. More often than not (slippery slope begins here) the NSA isn't hacking and stealing information for overly malicious purposes. They aren't out on a political agenda or blatantly trying to defame or destroy a company (argument can be made for when NSA used hacks to bust up Iran's nuclear systems).

We aren't so much different.