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There is already considerable doubt NK pulled this off. That being said, they attacked a foreign based corporation. Hardly worthy of us making a huge deal about it.
The entire hacker thing was a ruse to impose sanctions in an attempt at regime change. The problem is, the next regime will probably be worse than the one there now.
The current one is simply inept. That isn't a bad thing.
Oh come now....there are large scale hack stuff going on ALL THE TIME....this just made the mainstream news because it involved the movie etc.
NK has been under massive sanctions for decades, this isn't going to produce regime change in a country of dirt farmers that have almost all their trade with China.
Everyone is using this hack to see what they want to see in their own personal agendas about politics or the global NWO boogeyman...conspiracy and whatnot.
Oh come now....there are large scale hack stuff going on ALL THE TIME....this just made the mainstream news because it involved the movie etc.
NK has been under massive sanctions for decades, this isn't going to produce regime change in a country of dirt farmers that have almost all their trade with China.
I never said it would work. What was the outcome here of this supposed "attack"? Mainly a bunch of embarrassing emails were released and a B movie got a ton of publicity.
Horrors. Maybe we will send in a full scale attack if a Gweneth Paltrow movie gets leaked?
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This hack could prove extremely costly to Sony.
Leaked movies. Every stolen copy of a movie is potentially a movie ticket lost. "Fury," the World War II drama starring Brad Pitt, has been downloaded illegally 2.3 million times, according to tracking firm Excipio.
The hack also threatens to suck the life out of Sony's (SNE) remake of the musical "Annie," starring Jamie Foxx, before it hits theaters in two weeks. It's been pirated more than 278,000 times.
Personal information. And to top it all off, hackers have exposed enough personal data that 3,800 employees must now be on guard for identity theft.
All of this is getting posted publicly in huge batches of computer files on sites like Pastebin.com and illegal file-sharing websites. Security researcher Dan Tentler has found that the files are being shared using computer servers owned by Sony's PlayStation Network -- adding insult to injury.
Hackers took more than 100 terabytes of data -- a leak of information so huge that Sanabria thinks it'll take Sony a year or more to go through it all and deal with the damage.
The US already has an oil embargo (that was worthless from the beginning) on North Korea dating back to 2002. Oil embargoes are generally considered to be the toughest embargoes that can be imposed on a country. There really are no more sanctions or embargoes that the US can impose on North Korea to get the DPRK to change its behavior unless the US wants to target North Korea's trading partners like China which is obviously never going to happen.
It hasn't been proven N Korea is behind the hack attacks.
Obama just got done saying sanctions were ineffective when he lifted Cuba's, so why all of the sudden will they work on N Korea? (or Russia for that matter)
As it was with South Africa, the difference is how many other nations are/were willing to join. No one but the us ever thought that sanctioning cuba made sense, and it certainly makes less sense now than it did then.
NK seems like a more likely target for international opprobrium, but as long as china is their main trading partner, it's true that us sanctions will mean nearly nothing to nk. In fact, the main target of the nk sanctions may be to warn china to better control their extremely unpleasant pet.
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One answer is the US. Fedguv is highly dysfunctional and incompetent and will likely use the Sony incident to intrude further into our lives under the guise of "security". Fear mongering, Patriot act anyone?
The internet security of Sony is Sonys problem, just as it is for you and I.
However incompetent the us gov, I doubt that the sony incident will be used to crack down on americans. There are so many better excuses...
The patriot act is an outstanding example of orwellian speech.
Of course sanctions work, it's not a one-size fits all strategy though. Russia and Iran have been economically depressed from our sanctions then got hit with low oil prices which has major ramifications. For example, how long will the Russia Ruble be solvent? People are panicking and selling their Rubles.
No, they would be economically depressed even if no sanctions exist.
Government runs the economies there. Here, our federal government has gone from 3% at the turn of 1900, to over 53% of the economy today. We are catching up to Russia and Iran.
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