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At last some sane analysis that doesn't involve "terorists" or similar bullshit. Though I find 5 ("The attackers only latched onto “The Interview” after the med
by kbart 12y ago
At last some sane analysis that doesn't involve "terorists" or similar bullshit. Though I find 5 ("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. ") contradicting to 2 ("<...> the code was written on a PC with Korean locale & language"). Anyway, I would bet my money on the insider too -- the low sophistication level of malware combined with excessive knowledge of internal infrastructure speaks for itself.
- Jgrubb 12y ago> 2. The fact that the code was written on a PC with Korean locale & language actually makes it less likely to be North Korea. > Lets not forget also that it is trivial to change the language/locale of a computer before compiling code on it.
- ErrantX 12y agoWhat kbart means is; if the DRPK/Korea link came later this flies against the fact that before anything else it was compiled on a PC with Korean locale.
- pionar 12y agoThat still doesn't present a contradiction. The post says that they didn't latch on to "The Interview" until after the media linked it. That doesn't mean they weren't doing things to make people think it was coming from Korea.
- thekingofspain 12y agoYeah, especially because the Korean link was probably what started the "The Interview" saga. Not really a contradiction.
- alexanderh 12y agoCould have been an inside job, but I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of some kind of extreme social engineering, where an outsider gained trust and was able to glean a lot of the information you mention through non-technical means.
- KaiserPro 12y agohttps://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2014/12/a-breakdown-and-analysis-of-the-december-2014-sony-hack/ https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2014/12/a-breakdown-and-an... < for me is the canonical source of news.