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It likely goes without saying, considering the motive seems to have been to stop the release of the Kim Jung-Un satire “The Interview”, but the Feds have now confirmed that North Korea are behind the catastrophic attack against Sony.
According to Deadline, it will be announced as early as tomorrow that hacker group Justice of the Peace – who took down all of Sony’s computers, and leaked vital information onto the internet – are the ones responsible for the heinous crimes. Due to the ever-evolving platform of cybersecurity and hacking, cybersecurity managers are having to learn as they go while cyber security threats are consistently being upgraded to wreak more havoc on the chosen victim, making it a constant uphill battle to outsmart the perpetrators.
The site quotes U.S. Rep Ed Royce (R-Calif), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who said this afternoon on CNN that he’s been told the attack had been undertaken “at the behest of a foreign government.”
The findings were released hot on the heels of news that “The Interview” – a comedy about a talk show host and producer asked by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – would no longer be released, as planned, on Christmas day (in fact, there’s no new date skedded for the film).
“Sony Pictures has been the victim of an unprecedented criminal assault against our employees, our customers, and our business. Those who attacked us stole our intellectual property, private emails, and sensitive and proprietary material, and sought to destroy our spirit and our morale – all apparently to thwart the release of a movie they did not like,” Sony said in a statement.
President Obama addressed the Sony attack, too. “The cyber attack is very serious. We’re investigating it, we’re taking it seriously. We’ll be vigilant; if we see something we think is serious and credible, then we’ll alert the public, but for now my recommendation would be that people go to the movies,” he said.
So there you go… not only are we now being told which movies we can and can not see, all because some hound barks, but our freedom of speech rights were just smeared with a blotch of white-out. Fuck this news with a capital F.
“Back to the Future Part II” should’ve warned us of this future – one in which Hollywood is now controlled by squat turds.
Saw @Sethrogen at JFK. Both of us have never seen or heard of anything like this. Hollywood has done Neville Chamberlain proud today.
— Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) December 17, 2014
.@RobLowe it wasn’t the hackers who won, it was the terrorists and almost certainly the North Korean dictatorship, this was an act of war
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) December 17, 2014
What if an anonymous person got offended by something an executive at Coke said. Will we all have to stop drinking Coke?
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) December 17, 2014
Dear Sony Hackers: now that u run Hollywood, I’d also like less romantic comedies, fewer Michael Bay movies and no more Transformers.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 17, 2014
