It gives me the chills to think a rogue state can hack into this country's power grid and bring the whole country to a standstill. This is just the first shot in a whole new type of warfare.
Dan...the look on your cat's face is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time! She deserves some Fancy Feast and an extra helping of catnip
It gives me the chills to think a rogue state can hack into this country's power grid and bring the whole country to a standstill. This is just the first shot in a whole new type of warfare.
It would be surprising of the head of the movie studio, Amy Pascal, doesn't lose her job. Not necessarily due to this situation itself, but from being so unprofessional in the way she conducts business, as revealed in many of those released emails. Though from what I've read, she has been in tight spots before, for which underlings paid the price instead of her.
- George Gassaway
It gives me the chills to think a rogue state can hack into this country's power grid and bring the whole country to a standstill. This is just the first shot in a whole new type of warfare.
As to whether the movie was a good idea, does not matter. That is blaming the victim. As has been said, this sort of thing may have a chilling effect on documentaries about North Korea, and even anyone who says ANYTHING bad about North Korea. Well, correction, anyone who might have said bad things about North Korea, but will not say the things in the future that they would have before, out of fear.
So, blaming the script of the movie and/or attacking the actors, is just, well, ridiculous. This situation is more serious than that.
What if instead, this was a serious Tom Hanks movie about repression in North Korea? The same principles would still apply. North Korea would be upset about THAT, and have the same reasons to undermine it and attack those responsible for it, as they have done about this movie. Would you blame Hanks and the studio for it, or the actual bad guys?
- George Gassaway
Keep in mind, the theaters made the decision not to show it... at least not on the original premiere date. Without the theaters agreeing to show it, based on liability concerns, there wasn't much choice for Sony.
I was listening to an interview with the Sony CEO yesterday, and he was pretty adamant that they want to release the movie, once they have partners lined up to do so.
Keep in mind, the theaters made the decision not to show it... at least not on the original premiere date. Without the theaters agreeing to show it, based on liability concerns, there wasn't much choice for Sony.
I was listening to an interview with the Sony CEO yesterday, and he was pretty adamant that they want to release the movie, once they have partners lined up to do so.
All of this will blow over, and the movie will be out there soon enough.
That strikes me as silly. Just because many of the larger theater chains were not going to show it does not mean they could not release it. I can upload a file to a server, whether or not anyone chooses to download it is a completely different question. Sony certainly could make it available to any theater that wanted it - they could 'release' it.
Its really steams me to have the president comment that the airing of Sony executives dirty laundry is a matter of national security..is just Obaminable.
Still think it's a publicity stunt.
If it is REAL,We should take appropriate action.
IIRC, we sent radar jamming airplanes into Iraq. When the pilots fired them up the ENTIRE electrical grid shut down.
We could just bomb them into the Stone Age, but we'd move them ahead a few hundred years
Release the movie.
Have you seen a Seth Rogen movie???
It gives me the chills to think a rogue state can hack into this country's power grid and bring the whole country to a standstill. This is just the first shot in a whole new type of warfare.
The ads seem to make it out to be a comedy? That was my take before any controversy. If it IS a comedy, shows how out of touch North Korea really is ... and our press.
Especially after working on infrastructure for a major financial institution, I have zero sympathy for any critical data or system being connected to the internet when it does not have to be. Seriously, have any of these buffoons ever heard of an air gap? No WOW addicted pimply faced teen is hacking through one of those. Yet all because some bozos in middle management want to access their email through home Comcast connections, our whole power grid is attached and susceptible. Obviously in cases like Home Depot and Target the purpose was to do business with customers online, but there is no justifiable reason for a power control system or private unreleased media to be connected to the same network as my little brother playing Call Of Duty.
Nothing justifies the hack and the threat, but I wonder how the US would react to a film about the assassination of a real-life sitting president, or any real-world figure.
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