Sony Cancels The Interview

[AngelsLongBall]

Plausible:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-sony-hack-20141219-column.html

[Tank]

as soon as i started reading that article i thought "isn't it possible to make it look like you're someone you're not?"

 

there are some valid questions to ask in why the noki's attacked in the way they alledgedly did.

[gotbeer]

Plausible:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-sony-hack-20141219-column.html

 

Yup, the insider sounds more plausible than NoKo.  

 

And if it was indeed NoKo that did it.  Then pretty much it means a two bit country with no real resources can wreck havoc on U.S. industry.  Think what a country that really had a grudge like Russia could do then.  

[tdawg87]

Clearly it's the illuminati.

Don't make me say it.

[Amazing Larry]

Don't make me say it.

 

[Amazing Larry]

Obama calls Sony out.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/12/19/sony-the-interview-hackers-gop/20635449/

[Taylor]

Obama is a Seth Rogan superfan.

[gotbeer]

I find it funny the outrage from the talking heads and the celebrity side for Sony pulling the movie.  When they were completely silent and didn't look to have a friend in the world when they were getting their guts ripped out of them.  

 

I'll actually give Clooney credit, since it did seem like he was trying to rally support before the film was pulled.  But he seems to be the only one that was on their side.

[mrwicked]

hilarious.

i love all the "its cyber terrorism!!" talk.

sony is a joke of a company security-wise, everyone in the community knows that.

and here they get their corporate passwords stolen.

and to deflect blame they are touting this cyber terrorism stuff.

this wasnt a bond super villian.

the passwords were stolen because they were sitting in an unencrypted file called PASSWORDS

[Lou]

the password was : admin

[mrwicked]

i have the same combo on my luggage.

[RallyMo]

i have the same combo on my luggage.

COMB THE DESERT!

[mp170.6]

hilarious.

i love all the "its cyber terrorism!!" talk.

sony is a joke of a company security-wise, everyone in the community knows that.

and here they get their corporate passwords stolen.

and to deflect blame they are touting this cyber terrorism stuff.

this wasnt a bond super villian.

the passwords were stolen because they were sitting in an unencrypted file called PASSWORDS

 

I can stop laughing at the hackers supposedly stealing 100 TERABYTES of data.

 

At 10 Mbps running 24/7/365 it would take 1018 days to download that much data.  At 100 Mbps it would take 101 days.  Even if you're too stupid not to change and secure your passwords, all kinds of alarms should have been activated at that much bandwidth being used by a handful of user accounts.

[mancini79]

Now the "hackers" are trolling the FBI with today's message:

 

"The resurt of investigation by FBI is so exerrent that you might have seen what we doing with you own eyes. We congraturate you successes. FBI is BEST in the whord."

 

Yet North Korea continues to deny any involvement.

[QuinlansMinion]

They demanded Sony never release this movie or show it to anyone.  This blows I actually wanted to see it too.  The funny thing is the characters in the movie wanted to interview KJU because they wanted to be taken more seriously.  And im sure thats why Franco and Rogen made a movie which was somewhat political.  Now they got the whole world talking about it, they have shown many trailers and thrown marketing behind a movie that is never going to be seen by civilian eyes because an evil dictator threatened them not to release it.  

Edited December 21, 2014 by QuinlansMinion

[Stradling]

It will be released in some fashion.

[QuinlansMinion]

It will be released in some fashion.

 

I hope.  But they have more information about Sony.  I feel like Sony is too scared to release it because the hackers have more info on them, not because of terrorist threats.

[sneaky_flute]

It could be a disgruntled worker for all we know. Either source of the security breach is possible. From my understanding, North Korea has a pretty sophisticated hacker network, but it's pretty laughable that anyone thinks they pose a real threat to moviegoers.

[gotbeer]

http://youtu.be/SIcQX91TR7E

Edited December 21, 2014 by gotbeer

[Tank]

i'm trying to figure out why sony kept confidential medical info online.

[Brandon]

i'm trying to figure out why sony kept confidential medical info online.

It's the law.

Hipaa basically requires all health records to be stored electronically.

[mp170.6]

It's the law.

Hipaa basically requires all health records to be stored electronically.

 

I think he meant why was it accessible online in the first place. 

[Brandon]

I think hacking means it's not suppose to be accessible.

[mp170.6]

I think hacking means it's not suppose to be accessible.

 

If hackers could access HIPAA and other personal information via the internet, that means Sony employees could do the same.  That's the problem.  Some stuff ought to be kept on servers that are disconnected from the internet to prevent this kind of hacking. 

[Brandon]

The whole point of hipaa is to have secure paperless records. if they are hacked, they are hacked.