CURSE YOU NORTH KOREAAAA!

[Teoinsanity]

Well ,if ya hasn't heard ,Sony is canceling the release of "The Interview ",due to the hack ,and the hackers have been traced back to Kimland.

[mdk]

The trackers have allegedly been traced to Kimland. There's actually a sizable portion of the tech-world that thinks that's a black flag.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

The Interview sounded pretty stupid to begin with, so it's no big loss (In fact, I can say that the world benefited from it).

Anyways, the whole cancellation thing was Sony covering their ass just in case someone did try something.

[Gwazi Magnum]

North Korea/Kim Jong needs to learn his place.
Which is sitting down, shutting up and not interrefering with media, peoples live, or anything for that matter.

[mdk]

Mr Allen J said
The Interview sounded pretty stupid to begin with, so it's no big loss (In fact, I can say that the world benefited from it).Anyways, the whole cancellation thing was Sony covering their ass just in case someone did try something.

Sorta. The threat of danger was gonna keep people from bringing their kids to watch family christmas movies -- so if Sony decided to stick it to the man, it would've hurt basically every other studio with a christmas release. Instead of taking that bad press, Sony punted it to the theater chains and said 'Hey guys, it's up to you, [i]wink wink[i] but we are prepared to throw in the towel.' Since the theaters were gonna lose money if Interview played, their choice was predictable, which means Sony predicted it and went ahead anyway.

So if we're keeping score, Sony is covering for Disney, Universal, Paramount, and Weinstein's asses, while Cinemark, Regal, AMC, Carmike, and Cineplex cover Sony's ass, and the rest of us cover the cinemas' asses. Elaborate, right? Anyway I'm sure Sony gets some consideration from all those other jerks for stepping aside and letting Christmas Money happen.

[Gwazi Magnum]

I think it's really just a matter of society raising people to be afraid/offended by everything, rather than learning to call a bluff and having some guts.

There's actually another thread going on atm in regards to death threats, where I'm finding the same thing applies.
People can make a baseless threat over the tiniest thing, and instead of people laughing at it as the obvious bluff it is it leaves people scared, and running to authorities and other people for support.

Not to call anyone specifically a coward here, I don't think this is so much a case of individuals being cowards but rather people have just accepted that the normal reaction to such a thing is to tuck in their tail and run, despite the risk being absolutely minimal. It's just what people have been getting told is the accepted reaction, so without even thinking about it, it's just what people do.

[Foster]

Nah, it ian't a holiday-movie material. Too much competition.

Now, if it ferments for about... 3 months... yeah, great movie to release in time for spring-break, where the prime-audience consists of unsupervised man-children sticking it to their respective men.

[Smiral]

OP, why can't you use commas

[HeySeuss]

mdk said
The trackers have allegedly been traced to Kimland. There's actually a sizable portion of the tech-world that thinks that's a black flag.

I doubt it'd be traced directly to The One True Korea. The Greatest Korea probably has shell companies and deniable assets doing a lot of the cyberwarfare. Why invest in covert internet hacking capabilities if they can be traced directly back, right? So you cultivate covert assets elsewhere to do the dirty work.

It might even be best to say that the groups that carried it out, if the Only Korea That Counts actually did it, are NK sponsored, but also expendable.

But if they did do it over this, I think it was dumb even if it was temporarily disruptive -- they revealed their cyberwarfare capabilities for analysis over a triviality like a movie that makes fun of the Child King of Kimland. And that, incidentally, is why I think they had a hand in, because I doubt any credible hacker group cares about Kim Jong Un's reputation and face in the world, he's certainly reputed to be erratic enough to order that sort of rash action (or he isn't in control anymore and someone wants to make it look like he is) and that name, "Guardians of Peace" sounds like the sort of thing an out of touch North Korean propagandist might come up with thinking it doesn't sound blatantly stupid to English-speaking ears.

Look at all the other hacktivist groups out there. They use a very different idiom for their names. Lulzsec, Anonymous and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hacker_groups so forth.

Just a thought.

[mbl]

It's funny because it was a really shitty movie. Unfunny and bad for the Korean plight, apart for the possibility of the more mindless of teenagers learning that a place called Korea exists and people apparently don't eat there... And also finding out that Eminem is gay/bi, as he comes out on the movie.

I don't see why they would greenlight the movie for production in the first place. They produce a comedy about killing the living ruler of a country known for silly threats, slate it for a christmas release, and bitch out when the terrorism threats start coming in. How did no one there see the fact that no good PR would come from this movie. If Korea did do the hack job, Sony challenged them to do it and should have been more secure; if it was just random trolls, then the whole situation is fucking hilarious.