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The strongest evidence of a North Korean tie isn't what happened - it's what didn't happen. They didn't release The Interview on torrent sites. Whether this was
by downandout 12y ago
The strongest evidence of a North Korean tie isn't what happened - it's what didn't happen. They didn't release The Interview on torrent sites. Whether this was the work of the NK government, or one of their brainwashed citizens, it doesn't really matter. Their objective was to stop the impending embarrassment of their Dear Leader, and that is exactly what happened. NK was at a bare minimum the cause of the hack, and was almost certainly the perpetrator.
Quite often the easiest way to identify a criminal is to look at who benefited most from the crime.
- higherpurpose 12y agoThe initial demand asked for money reward. It could easily be some organized crime hackers that wanted money, and then blamed it on North Korea to throw off everyone's scent. On the Internet nobody knows you're North Korea (if you're sophisticated enough). Also, their main evidence seems to be that "they used the same hacking software as North Korea had used before - and can be found on the black market". So this is a little like some hackers buying forensics tools that can hack iPhones, the same ones the police are buying, and then saying the police hacked the celebrity nudes a few months ago.
- rconti 12y agoI've never understood why so many here ignore the CONTENT of the releases from the GOP. It's so clearly NK or an NK sympathizer. I don't see that kind of regional outrage and anger typically being used to frame someone else.
- geographomics 12y agoWhat you describe is not evidence of anything. One could take the exact same set of observations and equally well conclude that this is a false flag operation.
- buttcoinslol 12y agoWhat would the US Government gain from that? This isn't going to serve as casus belli for a war with North Korea. North Korea stands to gain the most from this.