I wonder what would happen if North Korea made a comedic film depicting the assassination of President Obama... How would the US react? Hmmm....
My thoughts? I think it will be the most torrented file of this decade when it leaks next week/month.
Here's an interesting read of a good article explaining why it might not be North Korea. http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/18/why-the-sony-hack-is-unlikely-to-be-the-work-of-north-korea/ I'll highlight a few key points The broken English looks deliberately bad and doesn't exhibit any of the classic comprehension mistakes you actually expect to see in “Konglishâ€. i.e it reads to me like an English speaker pretending to be bad at writing English. The fact that the code was written on a PC with Korean locale & language actually makes it less likely to be North Korea. Not least because they don't speak traditional “Korean†in North Korea, they speak their own dialect and traditional Korean is forbidden. This is one of the key things that has made communication with North Korean refugees difficult. I would find the presence of Chinese far more plausible It's clear from the hard-coded paths and passwords in the malware that whoever wrote it had extensive knowledge of Sony's internal architecture and access to key passwords. While it's plausible that an attacker could have built up this knowledge over time and then used it to make the malware, Occam's razor suggests the simpler explanation of an insider. It also fits with the pure revenge tact that this started out as. Whoever did this is in it for revenge. The info and access they had could have easily been used to cash out, yet, instead, they are making every effort to burn Sony down. Just think what they could have done with passwords to all of Sony's financial accounts? With the competitive intelligence in their business documents? From simple theft, to the sale of intellectual property, or even extortion – the attackers had many ways to become rich. Yet, instead, they chose to dump the data, rendering it useless. Likewise, I find it hard to believe that a “Nation State†which lives by propaganda would be so willing to just throw away such an unprecedented level of access to the beating heart of Hollywood itself The attackers only latched onto “The Interview†after the media did – the film was never mentioned by GOP right at the start of their campaign. It was only after a few people started speculating in the media that this and the communication from DPRK “might be linked†that suddenly it became linked. I think the attackers both saw this as an opportunity for “lulz†and as a way to misdirect everyone into thinking it was a nation state. After all, if everyone believes it's a nation state, then the criminal investigation will likely die. Blaming North Korea would benefit Sony, in order to sweep under the rug any lacking of internal security by their own company. It would benefit the US government too, because the US and NK like to sling mud at eachother. I'm not buying that it's NK as of yet.
Fuck them dude, don't let them dictate our country from theirs. Im kinda of a short fuse I consider that a threat and If I was president I would have already had bombs going off to kill that mother fucker. Play the movie and don't let them win, it makes US ALL look weak!
hahaha no! Not any American should fall weak to north Korea. Why do you have to insult republicans? Not nice my feelings are hurt now Now about the comment before yours couldn't find the op: Thing is they probably have made movies, wouldn't matter anyways. They burn our flags, pictures of our president and hate everything about our country including you and I. Its a comedy, I seriously can't fathom how uptight these people truely are. Damn dude chill out smoke some weed and watch the movie lighten the fuck up!
There is no purpose in showing a piece of crap movie, which may result in people getting killed, major property damage, and throwing the economy into a tailspin. We don't need any movie bad enough to risk murder and terrorist attacks. Sony is not the government, they're not even an American company. Shelve the movie, we have bigger fish to fry.
Movie looked like shit anyway. I don't care at all. They can censor all the movies they want, just don't touch my porn. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Seth Rogen is such a hack, all of his movies should be pulled. Makes sense all the people gullible enough to believe that the DPRK is the source of these hacks are the same people who are entertained by a man-child who ranks on par with Family Guy in comedic value.
I can't believe some people here are ok with this. It doesn't matter if the movie looked shite. This is the biggest example of artistic censorship in the entirety of human history and it is repugnant. Everyone should be pissed.
No, it's not, actually and it's repugnant that you would think that; many people in the past have actually been murdered and imprisoned for artistic expression. You should all take it up with the executives at Sony; they're the ones who cancelled its release, the government didn't ban the movie or anything.
I feel like they may have already done so years ago. Have you ever watched some anti US propaganda from the DPRK? There is no shortage of it haha.
It's a hoax a publicity stunt motherfuckers are broke these days lol let's smoke you fake ass rich fuckers!
Uhhh not even remotely close. Also, Sony pulled the movie it wasn't done by the US government. Not really censorship, more like, "Well this movie was going to suck anyway why risk any lives over this over-promoted piece of shit." Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Another group told Sony to pull the film or else they will hurt innocent people, that is definitely censorship. It doesn't matter if the movie is good or bad, somebody is telling us as Americans what we can and cannot produce/watch etc and that is a problem especially if we are caving in to this fear. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
another group needs to "hack" Sony, take The Interview, and upload that shit. maybe even after Sony says they got hacked again. here's how I see it, if it is NK, they aint gonna do jack shit, I mean wtf did they do when Team America came out? if it's not NK, wtf is the purpose? why hold back just The Interview? in this scenario its probably some dumbass little script kiddie trying to stir up some shit. if another country did this shit, made a movie about killing Obama, I can't imagine 99% of America would give 2 shits. we're not like NK, we don't believe some bullshit fairy tales that Obama is a god amongst men that can make rainbows appear or whatever the fuck they say about them kim jungs
It's not really Sony's fault. The biggest theater chains refused to show the movie. and since partial revenue voids any insurance claim Sony could make they canceled the VOD and DVD release.