Terrorism Wins Again - "The Interview"

[R_Bert]

We ain't got this kinda acktervist.........

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2014/12/17/activists-to-use-balloons-deliver-the-interview-dvds-to-north-korea/

 

No DVDs dropped into RockyTop, TN.

[vontar]

We ain't got this kinda acktervist.........

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2014/12/17/activists-to-use-balloons-deliver-the-interview-dvds-to-north-korea/

 

No DVDs dropped into RockyTop, TN.

 

 

Activists to Use Balloons to Deliver 'The Interview' DVDs to North Korea

 

 

Interesting IDEA, but I don't believe many people in North Korea have DVD players, many don't have electric.

[10-Ring]

I think the US public should threaten to never go see another Sony film if they don't release it.  Ridiculous to give in to these people.  We are losing the battle more every day.

As great as that would be, we can't even get gun owners to boycott restaurants with gun busters on the door.  Getting the idiotic American public to stand for anything will be impossible.

[R_Bert]

Interesting IDEA, but I don't believe many people in North Korea have DVD players, many don't have electric.

au contraire, mon ami.

 

They have been doing this for years.  Use "mules" too. 

 

It is a major "black-market" there.

 

I saw a extensive documentary made by a Chinese group actually doing it.  The hidden camera video was pretty cool around checkpoints and border cross-overs. It's a game of "cat & mouse"

 

They use lots of battery powered stuff, and memory sticks.

Edited December 18, 2014 by R_Bert

[rocketman]

Sony is afraid of "bombs" alright but the bombs are in the form of unreleased internal emails that were hacked. There must be some really embarrassing stuff still out there.




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[R_Bert]

Sony is afraid of "bombs" alright but the bombs are in the form of unreleased internal emails that were hacked. There must be some really embarrassing stuff still out there.




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and, it will come out regardless of what Sony does to capitulate.  They lost, and will continue to lose for a long time.  The hackers have no reason to abide by any "ethics".

[rocketman]

Yup


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[vontar]

They took don't negotiate with terrorists to the extreme and gave the terrorists (aka Hackers) exactly what they wanted with nothing in return.

[2.ooohhh]

For those who don't know Sony global lost and is continuing to lose b/c they miscalculated the risk of poorly implemented IT security. Instead of weighing the value of the data held and it's worth to the business, they weighed things like the "estimated cost of a breach" and determined proper security wasn't worth the cost to implement. Worse still, their sister company Sony Online Entertainment has had MULTIPLE large breaches of consumer credit information as a prior example of how bad a mistake this choice was and was given a few years in between to fix it!

 

"The cost to harden the legacy database against a possible intrusion could come to $10 million, he says. The cost to notify customers in case of a breach might be $1 million. With those figures, says Spaltro, “it’s a valid business decision to accept the risk” of a security breach. “I will not invest $10 million to avoid a possible $1 million loss,” he suggests."

 

Heck, that's not even newsworthy, the shortsightedness of this stance was even pointed out in the 2007 article's next paragraph.

 

"That reasoning is “shortsighted,” argues Ari Schwartz, a privacy expert at the Center for Democracy and Technology. The cost of notification is only a small part of the potential cost to a company. Damage to the corporate brand can be significant."

 

 

Source- http://www.cio.com/article/2439324/risk-management/your-guide-to-good-enough-compliance.html

[Sam1]

At least we got to see how he was assassinated:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pna3cX0uBjA

[Peace]

I am for freedom of expression - artistic or otherwise.  Even so, this whole time in the back of my head has been this thought ... how thick-headed do you have to be to make a pop-culture comedy about the assasination of a sitting head of state?  There are other ways to say what you want to say.  You can keep the likeness, face, manerisms, .. whatever, but change the name for crying out loud - bad form... and karma (though it seems to have eluded aformentioned head-of-state... for now) is resting her head on this "thing".

 

If... if, if, if... Amazon and/or Netflix/Hulu, etc. think they are secure enough, they would make great release platforms.   - but they may have already (behind closed doors) said "No, thank you."

 

Sony has had a lot of free press for this movie (that's good), but Sony also carryies a stain of being able to be drowned - absolutely paralyzed, by an unknown entity (that's bad).  This movie and the $75m or so that they have tied up in it is chump change compared to the specter of having had the entire orgnization helplessly "taken down" - with no ability to mitigate, stop, or counter the assault.  As a global business, that is a huge, huge deal.

 

Night. Mare.

[Oh Shoot]

So what's next? Maybe threats against Baptist churches or whatever, see how much more they can disrupt American life with just a few threats. Obviously quite a bit, seems.

 

- OS

[vontar]

 

The president said that pulling the film could set a dangerous precedent.

"We cannot have a society in which some dictators someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States," Obama said. "Imagine what they start doing once they see a documentary that they don't like or news reports that they don't like."

from CNN.

 

I guess even a blind squirrel does find a nut every now and then.

Wonder who wrote his speech. 

 

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/19/media/sony-executive-michael-lynton-responds-to-president-obama/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[R_Bert]

.  (sorry, posted wrong thread ...sort of) 

Edited December 20, 2014 by R_Bert

[Sam1]

sign this, pass it around

 

https://www.change.org/p/sony-release-the-movie-the-interview-sony

[Ted S.]

The pussification of this country is now complete.

 

Pretty much with you on this one. "We're not releasing a movie because we are afraid of a country where the only fat person is the leader." Is this fucking serious?

[Chucktshoes]

Internal emails from Sony showed they had no faith in this film. Maybe this was an excuse for them to declare it a total loss for insurance purposes. It may really be a real life "Springtime For Hitler".

[Oh Shoot]

Internal emails from Sony showed they had no faith in this film. Maybe this was an excuse for them to declare it a total loss for insurance purposes. It may really be a real life "Springtime For Hitler".

 

Probably not Oscar material, but Rogen has never been involved with anything totally unwatchable IMHO, and I'm an old fogy. :)

 

- OS

[Ron_TN]

You think its bad now.......wait till we get our first hispanic president...its coming....hold on....I'll be outta here thank God

Edited December 22, 2014 by Ron_TN

[R_Bert]

We ain't got this kinda acktervist.........

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2014/12/17/activists-to-use-balloons-deliver-the-interview-dvds-to-north-korea/

 

No DVDs dropped into RockyTop, TN.

more Info on opening  up the NORK'S Information Curtain -

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/395189/open-north-koreas-information-curtain-john-fund

Edited December 22, 2014 by R_Bert

[Ted S.]

http://mic.com/articles/106998/you-may-end-up-seeing-the-interview-after-all-thanks-to-anonymous

[Oh Shoot]

For whatever reason North Korea internet went black today, nada in or out. Coincidence due to their flaky infrastructure?

 

If BHO did it, he ain't saying.

 

- OS

Edited December 23, 2014 by Oh Shoot

[hipower]

Personally, I couldn't care much less about seeing this movie.

But letting a tin pot dictator intimidate and threaten this country's private industry is about totally absurd. Edited December 23, 2014 by hipower

[RC3]

I was so looking forward to this movie.

[vontar]

North Korean Internet 101 interesting read.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/22/technology/security/north-korean-internet/index.html

 

After reading that, I had to look up the OS they use, Red Star, another interesting read if you are computer people.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2862737/meet-red-star-os-the-north-korean-linux-distro-that-apes-apples-os-x.html