The Sony Hack: Cancelled Release of "The Interview" on Dec.25

[gold stinger]

Re: The Sony Hack: Cancelled Release of "The Interview" on Dec.25

I think this more or less just drives up the number of how many people are actually going to see the movie.

Hopefully Sony re-thinks about their decision over community backlash and decide to do a theater release in January or something.

[ItsOnlyDanO]

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Maybe this is the greatest marketing stunt ever conceived

Or not

[Tyson ultima]

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It looked like a dumb movie anyways looool asian stereotypes haha!

you forgot an XD

[gold stinger]

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Maybe this is the greatest marketing stunt ever conceived

Or not

Such a huge marketing stunt that it literally dragged everyone who was portrayed in the movie into a real life conflict? ok.

Was not expecting a Real-Life version of the movie, starring the FBI as the FBI, the CIA as the CIA, and North Korea as North Korea.

[Red Blaster]

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North Korea is a laughing stock of a country. They've been making empty threats for the past 30+ years, so why anyone took this seriously is beyond me. I guess if you use the term 9/11 it makes everyone's sphincters tighten.

Also..it was a threat by a bunch of hackers, what damage could a bunch of hacktivists really cause?

As for the movie, couldn't give two shits about it. Looked retarded anyway.

[lurker]

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Why exactly are we giving in to North Korea? What could they possibly do?

they "hurt" "sales"
even though the average north korean (allegedly) doesn't know that the internet exists, they have a legitimate cyber warfare department that supposedly enlists thousands
they could have gotten into amy pascal's e-mail account by guessing that her password was 123456, but the phrase "cyber warfare" scares the shit out of idiots so it's no surprise that this happened
really i think this is an insult to islam because this move means that hollywood thinks juche is just as legitimate

edit: i'm trying to find the death scene but the first youtube up got deleted after a surprising amount of time

[DaBackpack]

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North Korea is a laughing stock of a country. They've been making empty threats for the past 30+ years, so why anyone took this seriously is beyond me. I guess if you use the term 9/11 it makes everyone's sphincters tighten.

Also..it was a threat by a bunch of hackers, what damage could a bunch of hacktivists really cause?

As for the movie, couldn't give two shits about it. Looked retarded anyway.

A bunch of people are calling they cancellation stupid because there's no way NK could follow through with their threats to bomb 18000 theaters.

But they're forgetting that it only takes one theater shooting to make this a tragedy. If even one person dies because of this stupid movie, is it worth it to release?

The flip-side is that the movie is released and NK does something fucking stupid, then people still yell at Sony. Sony can't really win.

[gold stinger]

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they have a legitimate cyber warfare department that supposedly enlists thousands

Any evidence behind this supposedly existing? That's ridiculous if it exists.

[lurker]

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a lot of news sites have been copy/pasting the same story about "unit 121" for weeks
i've traced part of it back to this:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/06/201162081543573839.html

[hi19hi19]

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Any evidence behind this supposedly existing? That's ridiculous if it exists.

It's hardly ridiculous.
NK may be backward but its leaders are hardly stupid, it's pretty obvious that cyberwarfare and terrorism is highly economical. High effect for comparatively little investment compared to traditional armies. Perfect for a country with low resources and - certainly, at least, the historical pedigree of - an intelligent and collectively-minded population.

[gold stinger]

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so when will everyone else create a military division especially made for cyberterrorism

when is World War III which starts over the internet

[hi19hi19]

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so when will everyone else create a military division especially made for cyberterrorism

when is World War III which starts over the internet

Err, you do know the U.S. has had a dedicated cyberwarfare division of the Strategic Command since like, 2009?
Each of the branches of the armed forces have their own divisions too.
And there's public records of this kind of activity going on since basically back to the Cold War, so we can only assume what kind of classified research and planning has been going on.

Western governments aren't totally out of the loop, you gotta give us some credit haha

[gold stinger]

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They didn't have much means of even connecting computers to the internet yet going into the Cold War, but it did start around there.

Interesting to be finding this out now though. The most I saw was like neighbourhood watch or NSA in comparison.

[hi19hi19]

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The U.S. actually has a fairly well-developed stance on cyber attacks. You can argue it's too late or we are behind the curve, but we're definitely not clueless.
For example, if the Sony hack is indeed revealed to be North Korean in origin, U.S. policies very clearly state that it can be taken as an act of war and responded to as such:
"Hostile acts, it said, could include 'significant cyber attacks directed against the U.S. economy, government or military'"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/16/us-usa-defense-cybersecurity-idUSTRE7AF02Y20111116

[gold stinger]

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Goes to show how much I know about American Law.

http://time.com/3640419/sony-hack-north-korea-white-house/

The White House is currently deciding a plan of countermeasure or counter"attack" right now. Whether that be a counterattack, denouncation, or straight up blocking out the hack, I have no idea.