On December 21 2014 17:10 Sub40APM wrote: I always wondered how come terrorists arent more interested in hacking than cutting peoples head of on the internet, seems like they'd have a bigger impact by breaking into Sony than killing the random people they can.
Hey, don't give them any ideas. I think this is the heart of the precedent argument. Terrorists tend to think we are more afraid and they'll have a bigger impact by killing Americans. If it turns out we are more scared of being hacked and having our dirty email laundry aired out, they'll start doing that sooner or later.
EDIT: The logical follow-up question is "Are Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal the two stupidest executives in America?". There's a non-trivial chance the answer is "yes".
On December 21 2014 17:10 Sub40APM wrote: I always wondered how come terrorists arent more interested in hacking than cutting peoples head of on the internet, seems like they'd have a bigger impact by breaking into Sony than killing the random people they can.
Hey, don't give them any ideas. I think this is the heart of the precedent argument. Terrorists tend to think we are more afraid and they'll have a bigger impact by killing Americans. If it turns out we are more scared of being hacked and having our dirty email laundry aired out, they'll start doing that sooner or later.
EDIT: The logical follow-up question is "Are Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal the two stupidest executives in America?". There's a non-trivial chance the answer is "yes".
@EDIT I suppose it depends on how you are measuring stupid? But yeah, I don't comprehend how people (particularly public figures) still send incriminating emails, let alone from their freaking work accounts.
On December 21 2014 13:09 BongChambers wrote: Lmao if this is true then this is hilarious. If NK is responsible for the hacking I'm sure they hired someone to do it or they are really holding back on what they have in terms of computer knowledge.
Doesn't take that much knowledge when it sounds like Sony's internal security was basically non-existent.
I wonder about this sentiment. On the one hand, Sony seems to have had disgracefully low security in a world where most networks are already considered dangerously vulnerable. On the other, this appears to have been a well planned, well executed attack on Sony and its interests.
So I guess it bears asking explicitly - is it very hard to do what these hackers did? And is it totally crazy that NK did this on their own, so they needed external help?
It is very easy for a state actor to do what they did. They can do the same thing to any other companies including the U.S. government, Sony just happened to be the first unlucky American corporation. Contrary to popular belief, North Korea has always had a pretty competent cyber warfare program. However if you look at the stuff America's cyberwarfare program has been doing for the last few years, we are still the gold standard
Omg do I f*cking care? No ! Why? US Hacked everyone to gain every bit of information they could get. Now SOMEONE hacked Sony-Pictures. Sony. The guys next door run PSN. (Phonie Safety network). Blame the little antisocial fat Bloke. Yeah blame him. Blaming the antisocial fat bloke worked in primary school, junior high and highschool. So 95% uf umuricans can relate.
Please shut down CGI-3D-Remake-Wood all together. I dont care. All they do is producing shitty movies pushing their copyright-campaigns to the edge of reason (you probably gonna be recorded watching movies from 2015 on, to get In-Movie ads at home why not? And what you texted your friends parts of the movie plot? We read what you text, thats violating our terms of service, you gonna be charged !)
Do I believe that US is the truly good? or NK? Or any government ? No all fucking same opportunist bastards in charge. Diffrence for NK: The poor f*ckers dont even got any huge ass companies to send some lobbyists to dictate the course of action.
I reckon I could write a Bond film. M sends Bond to meet a contact in Russia but is super evasive about all the details of the contact and sends him in under-equipped, although not without the usual level of secrecy. He gets into the country by jumping from a super high altitude stealth airship or whatever and then flies down in a wingsuit because why not. Unfortunately upon landing he gets into a super extreme chase, possibly with jets chasing him while he's still in the air wearing his wingsuit, possibly while he's on the ground and there is just a convenient cliff or dam nearby for him to jump off and do some more flying. Either way they catch him.
So he's in his prison and being interrogated when one of the interrogators asks the minister of whatever to leave so he can get super brutal and then says the code word which identifies him as the contact who Bond is meant to be extracting. You see it turns out that there was actually a spy within British Intelligence which is why they were able to catch him when he entered by his super sneaky dramatic way in and why M gave him no details of the mission itself. The whole exercise was actually a molehunt, he was sent to get caught but was deliberately sent to somewhere where there was an asset who could help him get out. Anyway, contact says "Q sent me these for you" and we get a ton of gadgets although for purely Bond reasons it's not yet clear what any of them do and he'll just activate them in some way whenever he's in trouble and they'll happen to solve the problem, although maybe not in the way you'd expect.
They break out of the prison and it's super extreme but they can't leave the country yet because they need to break into the enemy intelligence place and find out who the spy is. Some kind of technical bullshit, they detected a message going from British Intelligence to the enemy HQ but they need the hard drive of the computer that decrypted it for some kind of unique key which they can use to decrypt it and find the source. Who the fuck really cares about that anyway. Unfortunately due to the mole they can't ask for backup, can't communicate their plans etc and have to do the most extreme breakin ever using just the gadgets and the two of them. Fortunately it turned out the interrogator was a super hot Bond girl because fuck you, that's why.
They successfully break in and get it. It's way more dramatic than that and something explodes but you get the idea. Then back to London with the hard drive, only they come under fire as they land. There's a really dramatic fight but the guy shooting at them is wearing a balaclava and you can't see who it is, although context implies it's the mole. They fight, girl gets shot, M gets in some way threatened, Q has a cameo, Bond wins, balaclava comes off, it's Sean Bean, girl lives, M says she had to send Bond to get caught and tortured and knew he'd be fine, Bond quips something snide then has sex with the girl.
On December 21 2014 21:11 KwarK wrote: I reckon I could write a Bond film. M sends Bond to meet a contact in Russia but is super evasive about all the details of the contact and sends him in under-equipped, although not without the usual level of secrecy. He gets into the country by jumping from a super high altitude stealth airship or whatever and then flies down in a wingsuit because why not. Unfortunately upon landing he gets into a super extreme chase, possibly with jets chasing him while he's still in the air wearing his wingsuit, possibly while he's on the ground and there is just a convenient cliff or dam nearby for him to jump off and do some more flying. Either way they catch him.
So he's in his prison and being interrogated when one of the interrogators asks the minister of whatever to leave so he can get super brutal and then says the code word which identifies him as the contact who Bond is meant to be extracting. You see it turns out that there was actually a spy within British Intelligence which is why they were able to catch him when he entered by his super sneaky dramatic way in and why M gave him no details of the mission itself. The whole exercise was actually a molehunt, he was sent to get caught but was deliberately sent to somewhere where there was an asset who could help him get out. Anyway, contact says "Q sent me these for you" and we get a ton of gadgets although for purely Bond reasons it's not yet clear what any of them do and he'll just activate them in some way whenever he's in trouble and they'll happen to solve the problem, although maybe not in the way you'd expect.
They break out of the prison and it's super extreme but they can't leave the country yet because they need to break into the enemy intelligence place and find out who the spy is. Some kind of technical bullshit, they detected a message going from British Intelligence to the enemy HQ but they need the hard drive of the computer that decrypted it for some kind of unique key which they can use to decrypt it and find the source. Who the fuck really cares about that anyway. Unfortunately due to the mole they can't ask for backup, can't communicate their plans etc and have to do the most extreme breakin ever using just the gadgets and the two of them. Fortunately it turned out the interrogator was a super hot Bond girl because fuck you, that's why.
They successfully break in and get it. It's way more dramatic than that and something explodes but you get the idea. Then back to London with the hard drive, only they come under fire as they land. There's a really dramatic fight but the guy shooting at them is wearing a balaclava and you can't see who it is, although context implies it's the mole. They fight, girl gets shot, M gets in some way threatened, Q has a cameo, Bond wins, balaclava comes off, it's Sean Bean, girl lives, M says she had to send Bond to get caught and tortured and knew he'd be fine, Bond quips something snide then has sex with the girl.