>You apparently skipped why it is outrageous. There are no lulz if nobody knows about it. I'm sure there were plenty of "lulz" to be had among their little gro

>You apparently skipped why it is outrageous. There are no lulz if nobody knows about it. I'm sure there were plenty of "lulz" to be had among their little group and while they'd like the admiration of joe bloggs as well as their peers, joe bloggs' admiration can be ceded if it means the FBI isn't kicking their door in. >Retaliating with an illegal hack shows thin skin This is how your cultural lens filters it but it is not how they would see it. From their perspective, this hack would demonstrate North Korean technological superiority (important, because they have an insecurity surrounding this), while the outcome would demonstrate the moral decrepitude, hypocrisy and incompetence of the American and Japanese "imperialist aggressors". This is the nature of both their mindset and propaganda and it is very consistent. No innocent life was taken. There was nothing really immoral about the act from their perspective (or in general). The simplest explanation is just that they didn't do it. I can well imagine that they erroneously believed (and probably reported in pyongyang newspapers) that the hack was performed by a secretive admiring ally. >If a President is depicted as a fool who gets assassinated by other countries, the US has every right to take offense. I like how when the tables are turned you somehow see it as something more serious. Your cultural filter is on display. >And you have yet to give a plausible reason for anybody to go through that trouble. Trying to prevent your door from getting kicked in by the FBI is more than a plausible reason. >In the meantime, we have lots of public evidence Yeah, like "here are some IP addresses in a log that ended up there because they were 'sloppy'". No potential for fakery there. >the agencies claim to have additional bulletproof private evidence I trust that about as much as I trusted the CIA's claim that they had bulletproof unseen evidence of WMDs in Iraq. It wasn't put on display because of national security concerns. It wasn't put on display because it doesn't exist. The CIA goes to Congress every so often with their cap in hand asking for more money. This is the exact kind of thing they use to justify their budget increase. I typically bear this in mind when I hear them cite evidence that we are being protected from seeing for our own good.