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    'Guardians of Peace' hacks Hollywood movies

    Sony was reported to be involved in some pro war productions but this is strange newws.

    Sony Struggles to Fight #GOP Hackers Who Claim Stolen Data Includes Stars’ IDs, Budget and Contract Figures

    By Todd Cunningham and Sharon Waxman on November 28, 2014



    The Guardians of Peace group, which says it is responsible for Monday's attack, releases list of files it says it has found

    The situation at Sony Pictures Entertainment is more dire than the studio has allowed to be known, as the fifth day of hackers taking down the studio's computer system continues though a threat to release private information has not materialized, TheWrap has learned.
    The studio has taken as much of its functions offline as possible, and managed to get payroll out as well as sustain DVD sales for titles like “Spider-Man” on the all-important Black Friday. One insider said company email is expected to be back on Monday.

    But as of Friday the studio's email, phone system and computers remained paralyzed, and in some cases staffers were using whiteboards to get things done. The studio's Twitter accounts have also been hacked, according to two individuals with knowledge of the situation.
    And while the studio has set up a parallel system offline, there is apparently no solution that has been found to undo the attack.
    According to one insider who spoke to TheWrap: “Every PC in the company is useless and all of the content files have either been stolen or destroyed or locked away.”

    http://www.thewrap.com/sony-execs-wo...tract-figures/






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    Nearly 200 Hollywood Actors and Execs Sign Pro-Israel, Anti-Hamas Statement

    August 23, 2014




    Amy Pascal, Ivan Reitman, Seth Rogen, Phil Rosenthal, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marty Singer, Aaron Sorkin, Sylvester Stallone, Nina Tassler, Jerry Weintraub and plenty others lend their names in support

    Nearly 200 Hollywood actors and executives have signed Creative Community for Peace's pro-Israel, anti-Hamas open letter.

    “Hamas cannot be allowed to rain rockets on Israeli cities, nor can it be allowed to hold its own people hostage,” the statement chastised. “Hospitals are for healing, not for hiding weapons. Schools are for learning, not for launching missiles. Children are our hope, not our human shields.”

    http://www.thewrap.com/israel-hamas-...ity-for-peace/






    Update 2:

    This did not get much coverage in uncontrolled US media but in the light of recent Sony Pictures hack news, this news may have more significance.

    Gaza Anonymous Hacking Attack Shuts Down 'Hundreds' Of Israeli Government Websites

    Huffington Post UK | By Louise Ridley
    05/08/2014 18:05 BST Updated: 06/08/2014 09:59 BST

    The hacking collective Anonymous has warned it will launch more attacks on Israeli government websites after apparently disabling more than 500, in a wave of cyber offensives which it says are in retaliation for Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
    It also claims to have leaked personal details of 70,000 users of the Israeli government jobseeker website zerem.co.il.

    Pro-Palestinian protesters in France wearing the iconic Guy Fawkes mask, which has become symbolic of Anonymous
    The hacking onslaught began at the weekend, with Anonymous claiming to have broken through complex cyber security for sites including some connected to Israeli Defence Force and Mossad, the Israeli secret service. Its attacks are being focused on websites using the gov.il and .il domains, the collective says.
    A spokesman for Anonymous told The Huffington Post UK in broken English via Twitter: “I'm doing this for the Palestinian. The Israeli government must pay by the WHAT is he doing with the people Palestinian. [sic]”


    'Tango Down': A tweet from an Anonymous hacker claiming to have taken down an Israeli government website
    Anonymous had previously announced that it is planning eight days of strikes on the websites, but the spokesman added that they “did not know” when the attacks would end and “more attacks” could come on Tuesday. Tweets from one of its accounts said Israel had experienced just "a small fraction" of its anger.
    Some, including the main government website gov.il, the legal website court.gov.il and the defense websites israeldefense.com and israeldefense.co.il appeared to still be down at the time of writing.
    The Anonymous spokesman acknowledged that many of the websites had since been restored. A spokesman for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netenyahu said he was unaware of the attacks.
    The Twitter account @anonymousglobo listed sites as they were disabled, along with the phrase “tango down”.
    The attack is also a reaction to the death in the West Bank of Tayyeb Shehadah, a 22-year-old who was wearing the iconic Guy Fawkes mask, which has become symbolic of Anonymous, when he was killed, reportedly by an Israeli soldier.
    The attack is a reflection of the growing momentum of the digital aspect to the Gaza conflict, with the IDF also prolific in using the internet and social media to promote its perspective.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014...n_5650652.html



    Anonymous hacker group attacks Israeli websites


    Anonymous announced its attacks via Twitter


    Hacking group Anonymous has launched a series of cyber attacks against websites in Israel.
    Data bombardments briefly knocked some sites offline and led to others being defaced with pro-Palestinian messages.
    The OpIsrael campaign was launched by the hacking collective in retaliation for attacks on Gaza.
    The cyber attacks come as the Israeli army updates its web campaign adding "achievements" and "badges" for regular visitors.


    Anonymous said it had launched the OpIsrael campaign following threats by the Israeli government to cut all Gaza's telecommunication links. This, said the group in a statement posted to the AnonRelations website, "crossed a line in the sand".
    "We are ANONYMOUS and NO ONE shuts down the Internet on our watch," it said.
    The group warned the Israeli government not to cut off telecom and web links and urged it to end military operations in Gaza. If the attacks did not end, Israel would feel the group's "full and unbridled wrath".

    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20356757









    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9A9q0g7x9Y

    Most Americans see Obama as Dishonest, Untrustworthy

    Is "blame the movie for Sony hack" another "blame the video for Benghazi" moment for Obama?





    Fooled Again
    12.24.14
    No, North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony


    The FBI and the President may claim that the Hermit Kingdom is to blame for the most high-profile network breach in forever. But almost all signs point in another direction.

    Sony hack perpetrator remains cloaked in mystery
    The Associated Press December 24, 2014
    LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Despite President Barack Obama's conclusion that North Korea was the culprit, the Internet's newest game of whodunit continues. Top theories include disgruntled Sony insiders, hired hackers, other foreign governments or Internet hooligans.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...hack-sony.html

    http://www.vancouversun.com/business...ng+suspects+So ny/10679052/story.html


    Update 3:

    Who will Sony hackers strike next? FBI & DHS fear major media group is target


    December 31, 2014

    The suspected Sony hackers might have more than just Hollywood in their crosshairs: according to a leaked FBI document, the “Guardians of Peace” group, or GOP, has threatened to go after not just the movie industry, but the news media as well.
    On Wednesday, The Intercept published a joint intelligence bulletin circulated by the US government last week in which federal investigators acknowledge that an unnamed “news media organization” has been warned with suffering a fate similar to that endured by Sony Pictures Entertainment — the Hollywood entity ravaged by hackers in late November, purportedly over the planned release of the anti-North Korea comedy, “The Interview.”

    The memo — dated Christmas Eve and distributed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security — explains that the “cyber intrusion targeting USPER1 and related threats concerning the planned release of the movie, ‘The Interview’” have “extended to USPER2 — a news media organization — and may extend to other such organizations in the near future.”


    “On 20 December, the GOP posted Pastebin messages that specifically taunted the FBI and USPER2 for the ‘quality’ of their investigations and implied an additional threat. No specific consequence was mentioned in the posting,” reads the bulletin issued by both agencies.
    A message currently available on Pastebin and dated Dec. 20 suggests that CNN may be the entity in question.
    “The result of investigation by CNN is so excellent that you might have seen what we were doing with your own eyes,” reads part of Pastebin post authored anonymously by someone claiming affiliation to GOP.
    “We congratulate you success. CNN is the BEST in the world,” the message continues, along with a link to a YouTube video titled, “You are an idiot.”
    A post script to the Pastebin message reads, “You have 24 hours to give us the Wolf”— presumably a reference to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer.
    “The FBI and DHS are not aware of any specific credible information indicating a physical threat related to these postings,” the agencies add in their Christmas Eve the memo. “However, the potential remains for GOP or copycat actors to make renewed cyber and/or implied physical threats, to identify new targets or execute physical attacks if the movie is again scheduled for release.”

    http://rt.com/usa/219087-sony-intercept-gop-cnn/


    Cyber-defenders warn: Israel vulnerable to attack

    Dec. 28, 2014

    It seems that Israel – which has, per capita, more cybersecurity startup companies than any other country in the world, more companies dedicated to fighting hackers than in all of Europe combined, significant government investment in the field, strong collaboration between business, military and academia and even incentives for multinationals – does not have a simple answer. 'Kidding ourselves'
    “We think we are a great cyber-secure nation, but we are kidding ourselves,” says Tanya Attias, a Belarus-born, Israel-based cyber intelligence consultant working for S2T, a Singapore company that develops big data and cyber intelligence solutions for governments and large corporations. Like many of the engineers and executives in Israel’s cybersecurity sector, Attias served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite and secretive technology intelligence unit.
    “What happened to Sony, technically speaking, could happen here, anytime,” she says. “In fact, it already does. We just don’t hear about it.” She continues: “Israeli companies, corporations and government agencies, big and small alike, are attacked on a daily basis by all sorts of hackers – by Russians, or Palestinians, or Arabs from various countries.”
    “Typically, such breaches of security go unreported, at least publicly,” says Davidson, who heads the cybersecurity arm of a Tel Aviv-based security company with more than $1 billion in sales annually. Davidson is a veteran of 8200, probably the most famous of the IDF’s intelligence units, which parallels many of the functions of the U.S. National Security Agency and, like Attias’ unit, also feeds Israel’s booming private cybersecurity sector.
    The reason no one hears about these hacks, continues Davidson, is that attackers are often trying to gather information for purposes of espionage – and not to publicly shame their targets, as seems to have been the case with Sony. As such, making their work public rarely furthers the hackers’ goals – and the targets themselves, if they know they have been hit, have little incentive to take the stories public either.
    “There are two aspects of breaking in – the easy part is to hack in … the harder part is to eliminate the log and any evidence of you being there,” says Moran Cerf, a child prodigy hacker and 8200 alum turned neuroscientist. “The best attacks are the ones where the target does not even know you were there.”
    Hack work indeed
    While there is clearly a lot that cybersecurity folks can learn from the attack on Sony and the fallout – the hack in and of itself, according to observers-in-the-know, was not particularity creative, innovative or sophisticated.
    “The hackers in this case were not using new pieces of code,” says Nimrod Kozlovski, a professor of cyber studies at Tel Aviv University and a partner in JVP Cyber Labs, the cyber incubation and investment arm of a leading Israeli venture capital firm, Jerusalem Venture Partners. It was a “cut and mutate job,” he explains, in which the hackers reused a virus code, tweaked and relaunched “at least six components of previous malware.”
    The old malware reused in the Sony case, according to media reports, included two data-erasing pieces of software called Shamoon and DarkSeoul, which can easily be found on the Internet – and which were used two years ago in attacks on South Korean banks and a Saudi Arabian oil company.


    Besides tweaking the malware, what the Sony hackers almost definitely relied on, agree the experts, was simple human error they could take advantage of.
    “Ninety nine percent of attacks are not pure cybersecurity attacks at all, but rather results of human error. Every attack I have seen in my life involved human error,” says Cerf, who is today an assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management and the neuroscience program at Northwestern University. “It doesn’t even matter how much security you have… if one guy at Sony gave out his password or clicked on a link they should not have, that basically could have allowed a hacker entrance through the main door.”
    The ability of hackers to modify viruses and keep ahead of the security systems, as well as the inevitability of human errors, means that it is all but impossible to guarantee that the next similar such hack can or will be stopped. But this does not mean, stresses Kozlovski, who served in the IDF’s electronic warfare unit, that there is not a growing cache of weapons to fight such attacks.
    Gigabyte of prevention
    One promising way to stem a future such attack, says Kozlovski, has to do with mapping out all the potential variations of a virus ahead of time. He points at an Israeli company that JVC invests in, CyActive, which he says is a trailblazer when it comes to preempting, rather than waiting to detect, an attack. “They created something like a genetic lab, took the existing viruses and then created hundreds of thousands of potential mutations on them – as well as antidotes.”
    Another innovative approach being developed by several companies in Israel, continues Kozlovski, involves creating a more advanced system for investigating and prioritizing security violations.
    “It seems that Sony’s existing security technologies did alert them that they might be under attack. But so many such alerts come in that no organization can cope immediately or take automatic action to disable the system,” explains Kozlovski. Typically, if the system identifies a suspicious event, it is reported back to the security information management platform (SIM), and only then investigated. Companies like RSA (co-invented by an Israeli) or the smaller (Israel based) SecBI use technology developed in the Israeli army to cut through the back-up of such reports and do big-data analytics of alerts, thus speeding up the process.
    In addition to beefing up security, says Attias, she would advise anyone looking to thwart an attack to do serious intelligence work. “There are very few companies that have the money and the wherewithal to protect themselves adequately – and even those who do are not totally safe. Hackers are just faster and better,” she states.

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.633845



    FBI Investigating Whether Companies Are Engaged in Revenge Hacking

    December 30, 2014

    JPMorgan Proposal

    Last year’s discussion among banks about retaliatory strikes came after a wave of so-called denial of service attacks starting in 2012 that temporarily disabled several of their websites. The U.S. attributed the attack to Iran’s Quds Force, McCaul said. Iran denied being behind the strikes.


    FBI Caution

    Spokespeople for other attendees, including NYSE, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, declined to comment when asked this month about the meeting.
    The Treasury Department, in an emailed statement, said that as the leader of cybersecurity in the financial sector, it regularly meets with financial institutions to facilitate information-sharing and support post-hacking recovery efforts.
    Jenny Shearer, an FBI spokeswoman, declined to comment about the meeting or any probe.
    “The FBI cautions private-sector entities from taking offensive measures in response to being hacked,” Shearer said.


    Presidential Approval

    The practice of reaching into or disabling computers over international borders is so sensitive that if the U.S. government disables attacking servers without the permission of the host country, the approval of the president is required, according to a White House directive leaked last year by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
    The White House confirmed that such a directive exists. A spokesman for the National Security Council declined to to comment on the details of the directive.
    Some counteroffensives that would be legally sensitive in the U.S. are mounted from foreign soil, according to people who work for several security firms.

    Stolen Passwords

    RSA experts in Israel send malware into online forums where stolen data is swapped, or the experts hack directly into these computers, the person said. This allows them to recover stolen bank passwords and other data on behalf of financial institutions through methods the banks can’t use themselves, the person said, adding that no U.S.-based employees of RSA are allowed to engage in the activities or handle the data.

    http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...ull-offensives



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    I thought based on the headline it would be about the Republican Party editing movies to better promote their policies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    I thought based on the headline it would be about the Republican Party editing movies to better promote their policies.
    No, this GOP reportedly is "Guardians of Peace". Too soon to say what their motivation was but this was in news recently.

    Seth Rogen, Schwarzenegger join hundreds of Hollywood heavies in support of Israel
    Jerusalem Post
    Aug 24, 2014 - Top entertainers are playing a new role – publicly supporting Israel in its ... Seth Rogen and Minnie Driver to veterans Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
    http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/S...-Israel-372041

    'Hack Sony komt door James Franco en Seth Rogen'
    http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/entertainm...-en-seth-rogen

  5. #4
    Fallout continues.

    'Should I ask him if he liked Django?': Sony Pictures Chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin mock President Obama in new set of racist emails


    • Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal mock President Obama in a new series of emails that have been released
    • Pascal was set to attend a breakfast with President Obama at the home of DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzeneberg and asked Rudin what to ask
    • The pair then implied that the President only liked movies with black actors and subject matter - such as Django Unchained and 12 Years A Slave
    • This comes one day after Rudin was revealed to have called Angelina Jolie a 'minimally talented brat in one email'
    • In another email exchange, producer Michael De Luca marveled at the size of Michael Fassbender's genitalia


    By Darren Boyle for MailOnline and Chris Spargo for MailOnline
    Published: 07:10 EST, 11 December 2014

    Hollywood film producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures Chair Amy Pascal have been further embarrassed by leaked emails released as a result of the Sony hack, this time mocking President Barack Obama in a set of racist email exchanges.

    On the eve of a fundraising breakfast being attended by the President at the home of DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, Pascal and Rudin went over things she could discuss with Obama while at the event in October 2013.
    'Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?' Pascal asks Rudin, a reference to the 2012 Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained that dealt with the subject of slavery in the antebellum South.

    More emails: A new email exchange between Amy Pascal (left) and Scott Rudin (right) that has been leaked has the two mocking the president's race

    Bad timing: The emails were exchanged on the eve of a fundraiser attended by President Obama (above) at the home of DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg

    '12 years,' responds Rudin, referencing another slavery film, this time Steve McQueen's 2013 Academy Award-winning work 12 Years a Slave, a very violent and brutal look at the injustice and abuse endured by the millions forced into slavery in America.




    Racist comments: Pascal asks Rudin if she should talk with President Obama about the 2012 slavery film Django Unchained (above)



    Racist response: Rudin suggests that Pascal maybe talk with the President about 12 Years a Slave (above)



    The email exchange also finds Rudin commenting that President Obama 'likes Kevin Hart'

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2869917/I-bet-Obama-likes-Kevin-Hart-Sony-Pictures-chair-Amy-Pascal-producer-Scott-Rudin-s-racist-email-exchange-President-revealed-latest-hacking-leak.html




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    Oct. 31, 2012 3:21 AM EDT




    ___
    No. 1: Fred Eychaner, founder of Chicago-based alternative-newspaper publisher Newsweb Corp.
    Total: $3.57 million
    ___
    No. 2: James Simons, 74, New York philanthropist, investor and founder of Renaissance Technologies.
    Total: $3.5 million
    ___
    No. 3: Jeffrey Katzenberg, 61, Hollywood film producer and chief executive of DreamWorks Animation.
    Total: $3.07 million
    ___
    No. 4: Irwin Jacobs, 78, the founder and former chairman of Qualcomm.
    Total: $2.122 million
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    No. 5: Jon Stryker, 54, a Michigan philanthropist.
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    (L-R) Producer Megan Ellison, actress Amy Adams and Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment

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    Getting more strange.

    Sony Hackers Flash Disturbing New Warning on Staffers’ Computers

    December 11, 2014

    Amy Pascal on Whether She's So Damaged She Can No Longer Lead Sony (Exclusive)

    Sony Employees' Medical Records Among Hacked Data

    Kevin Hart Responds to Leaked Sony Emails Calling Him a 'Whore'


    A group purporting to be the Guardians of Peace or #GOP sent a new warning to Sony Pictures Thursday, causing an ominous message to flash across employee computer screens, an individual familiar with the situation tells TheWrap.
    Several staffers received the message, the individual said, with most left feeling “disturbed.” Reps for Sony have not yet responded to TheWrap's request for comment. However, a second insider confirmed this latest threat vowed to do damage if the #GOP's demands are not met.

    This is the fourth known time the #GOP has contacted the studio. The group previously accessed dozens of Sony employee computer screens in late November, displaying a similarly ominous image when staff tried to log in for work. See a screenshot here.

    Even more frightening than the menacing images, on December 5 an email was sent threatening the well-being of employees and their families.

    “Removing Sony Pictures on earth is a very tiny work for our group which is a worldwide organization. And what we have done so far is only a small part of our further plan,” the email said.

    The note asks staff to acknowledge the company's wrongdoing by sending an email to an unspecified address, adding “if you don't, not only you but your family will be in danger.”

    Most disturbing, a Bloomberg report said more than three dozen Sony employee and family medical records are contained in the leaked information.

    http://www.thewrap.com/sony-hackers-...ers-exclusive/

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    So where's the line on this stuff? I find it kind of funny but I think its wrong to threaten familys.

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    This is not a well reported or well connected news story so fay, so line is evolving still except that it is a major scandal now. Of course it is wrong to threaten families regardless of the nature of this apparent revenge match growing stranger by day.

    Right now, all top 10 headlines on link aggregator Drudge Report are about this story. There is suspected NK angle possible too according to House Intel chair.



    REPORT: SONY Unable to Process Payments...
    Delays premiere of hacker movie...
    Disturbing NEW WARNING Flashed on Staffers' Computers...
    NYT Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Column Before Publication...
    Jennifer Lawrence Paid Less Than Male Co-Stars...
    'SELMA' DIRECTOR CALLS EXEC'S EMAILS 'SICKENING'...
    PASCAL FIGHTS FOR JOB...
    STRESSED: Jolie develops 'chicken pox'...



    PAPER: SONY SUSPENDS FILMING




    Top hollywood donors of Dems/SWC are in the mix.
    ( h/t to Obama's "god is in the mix" statement in response to gay marriage question )


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    So, you're telling me that a trillion dollar defense budget can't locate the source of these hacks. Isn't this what the NSA is for? Oh yeah that's to spy on innocent people. Nevermind.
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    Ok, so where can I download all these free movies?
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    GOP, LOL, you had me there for a moment.
    pcosmar's lie : There are more votes than registered Voters..

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Madison View Post
    So, you're telling me that a trillion dollar defense budget can't locate the source of these hacks. Isn't this what the NSA is for? Oh yeah that's to spy on innocent people. Nevermind.
    Can't or won't?
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Madison View Post
    So, you're telling me that a trillion dollar defense budget can't locate the source of these hacks. Isn't this what the NSA is for? Oh yeah that's to spy on innocent people. Nevermind.
    That is a very difficult question to answer.



    Hackers to Sony: We Won't Release Your Info...If You Ask Nicely

    PC Magazine - ‎14 minutes ago‎

    Sony's hackers are getting into the holiday spirit: The Guardians of Peace (GOP) group on Sunday suggested that if Sony Pictures employees provide ask nicely, they'll be taken off the naughty list.



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    US ‘gave blessing’ to Kim Jong Un film

    James Dean Technology Correspondent
    Published 1 minute ago

    Senior United States government officials secretly approved a film that depicts the grisly death of Kim Jong Un at the hands of the CIA.
    Leaked emails from Sony Pictures suggested that two officials from the US State Department gave their blessing to The Interview, starring Seth Rogen, after the Hollywood film studio asked whether it would upset diplomatic relations with North Korea.

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/w...ard-2014_12_17

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Madison View Post
    So, you're telling me that a trillion dollar defense budget can't locate the source of these hacks. Isn't this what the NSA is for? Oh yeah that's to spy on innocent people. Nevermind.
    Exactly. The Ruling Class wants moar laws for this.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-1...ecurity-matter

    Of course, there's another reason...

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    So first you produce an insulting movie,, and then blame hacks on the same country that you just insulted.

    A Nuclear Armed (feebly), country with an allegedly unstable government.

    and this seems like a good idea to someone.
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    If the North Koreans are behind this it seems like they've won their first battle since the Korean War.

    Kudos.

    Always like to see the underdog get a little time in the spotlight.

    Go Cobra!!!
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  21. #18
    Is there some reason we should care about any of this? I mean, really. wtf...

  22. #19
    Well, it's shows the danger of having one's personal correspondence confiscated by an organization who might have only their interests in mind

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    So, in the end of the movie, Kim Jung Un's head is blown off by a tank shell, and splatters all over the place in flaming bits.

    Imagine a full length, highly polished production film by a major studio doing this with Obama.

  24. #21
    False flag orchestrated by the vampires in Hollywood.


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    Wonder if players will make a claim under their terrorism coverage?
    Taxpayer backed terrorism coverage for Hollywood anyone?

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  27. #24
    Not only did Sony cancel The Interview, Paramount has banned the showing of Team America: World Police in its place, and New Regency has halted production on Steve Carell's "North Korea-based thriller."



    The Interview Is "Desperately Unfunny", "Will Flop" If Not Cancelled According To Leaked Sony Emails
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-1...ked-sony-email

    Where it gets downright bizarre, however, is that as Reuters also reported earlier citing leaked emails of international Sony Pictures executive, the infamous movie in question "is "desperately unfunny" and would have flopped overseas if it had not been canceled."

    Wait a minute, it sounds almost as if the evil North Korean "hackers" did Sony... a favor?
    [...]
    Ok great, it would have flopped, but as Chris Rock said, at least the American public would want "to CHOOSE" not to see the movie (or not as likely would be the case).
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock



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  29. #25
    I really am amused by everyone who thinks this is a loss on the front of "the war on terrorism"...seriously . That ship sailed in 2001.




    Sony discussion is irrelevant.

  30. #26
    I don't see it as "a loss in the WoT" at all (not for the ruling class anyway). Yeah, what with the long train of abuses Boobus has not only endured but embraced, they make a big deal about this dumbass movie. And if it is Kim Jong-Un, he's essentially exposing himself as a big fat thin-skinned whiny baby! And now we find that Sony wanted the movie killed anyway! I've been pretty entertained by the emails and insider gossip too. It's all so absurdly funny. No one looks good in this. No one.

    But I shouldn't be laughing. False flag or not, the fedgov would never let a good crisis go to waste, and at this point it's more about the cyber-"security" "law" that they want to further abuse us with. I'm sure the govt is working hand-in-hand with Hollywood (as usual) and nudged them to shut them all down to help get it passed. The politicians are pushing it already, and I expect Hollywood will come out in favor of it real soon with those pleading videos they like to do.

    House cybersecurity chairman warns: First Sony, next the electric grid, Wall Street
    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ho...rticle/2557607

    Boogity-boogity! /Tod Evans
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

  31. #27
    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainAmerica View Post


    Sony discussion is irrelevant.
    TPP

    TePeePee

    It is more relevant than you think.
    Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
    Ron Paul 2004

    Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
    It's all about Freedom

  32. #28
    Who cares that a Japanese Corporation has horrible cyber security & is afraid to show a horrible movie?

  33. #29
    Quote Originally Posted by vita3 View Post
    Who cares that a Japanese Corporation has horrible cyber security & is afraid to show a horrible movie?
    Sony Pictures is an American corporation.
    pcosmar's lie : There are more votes than registered Voters..

  34. #30
    If North Korea made a movie about assassinating one of our presidents, we'd invade North Korea and Venezuela and drone strike a few weddings in Syria, Timbuctu, and Cheboygan, MI.

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