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Oh, come on. There is a simple theory that "all oversimplified/naive theories are wrong" (this is, by the way, a consequence of "all mental theories are wrong,
by dschiptsov 12y ago
Oh, come on. There is a simple theory that "all oversimplified/naive theories are wrong" (this is, by the way, a consequence of "all mental theories are wrong, but some of them are useful).
The theory that North Korea was upset about a crappy movie and hacked Sony is such a naive nonsense, it cannot be considered seriously. In is HN, after all.)
Less naive could an idea that some guys hacked Sony (for money, what else?) and used this as a "cover story". How does this happen? By a chance, like most events in Universe.
The hack itself, probably, was due to neglected security, like WEP hot-spots, unpatched Windows crap, everyone has Administrator privileges, updates disabled - everyone knows how it is.
And in order to "save the face" everyone jumped on that naive story - it is highly sophisticated hack by foreign intelligence, not an "admin" (or "fuck") password on some hotspot or Windows domain. It was a media division, btw, not a "techie" department.
I am exaggerating a bit about passwords, but the idea, I hope, is clear.
- csandreasen 12y ago> The theory that North Korea was upset about a crappy movie and hacked Sony is such a naive nonsense, it cannot be considered seriously. I'd be inclined to agree with you if the North Korean government didn't officially condemn the film last June and threaten retaliation if it was released. http://time.com/2921071/kim-jong-un-seth-rogen-the-interview-james-franco/ http://time.com/2921071/kim-jong-un-seth-rogen-the-interview...
- dschiptsov 12y agoThis is, most probably, correlation, not causation.)
- csandreasen 12y agoI think it's interesting that Sony is hacked several months after North Korea makes threatening remarks about a specific movie, the hackers make specific threats about the release of the same movie, and the FBI states that their forensic investigation turned up malware with code identical to malware previously attributed to North Korean hacking and using the same C2 servers and proxies, but the tech community won't even entertain the possibility that it might be North Korea behind the attack.