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Department of Homeland Security has found no credible threat, and evidence that the Guardians of Peace have any sort of manpower that could do anything within the boundaries of the United States (much less at thousands of locations simultaneously) is practically non-existent.
Haka sherpa-sherpa. Abaka-la.Redneck_Buddha wrote:Paramount Pictures is not allowing theaters to show Team America: World Police either. Derka derka.
My understanding is that a lot of data (not sure of the nature of the "data") and emails were compromised. Seems like there could be a pretty good load of blackmail material in that cache. I wouldn't be surprised to eventually learn that considerations other than "public safety" were the deciding factor in pulling the movie.cb1000rider wrote:Something else is going on here. Sony would make big bucks with this movie, just on the buzz alone. And there are theaters that would show it. Instead, they'll shelf the movie - which is exactly what has been demanded.
Why would they do that? I'm not sure it's for public safety.
Me too. Maybe more than half.CoffeeNut wrote:I understand being cautious, as I'm sure most of us on this forum do, but this is just stupid. No credible threat, no real clue of who pulled off the hacking, hackers typically don't want to sacrifice their hands working with explosives and lastly if it is North Korea then they know what they'd be committing by inciting this. I'm half convinced that pulling it from Christmas release is a stunt in order to get more people to go see it because I doubt Sony will be making money on pictures anytime soon due to all of the destruction the hackers have caused.
Although that's entirely possible, understand that internet infrastructure is under constant attack. Constant. And I don't work for a high-profile company that might have done something to anger a country with a substantially sophisticated technical team that was trained to compromise security...BigGuy wrote: Also as far as "hacked" goes, I'd put my money on a disgruntled employee selling or giving away a password. It would not be the first time that has happened. At my company, we routinely delete the account of any employee leaving the company for any reason. (exceptions to those who continue in a freelance role.) Even so, we've had a couple of bad eggs do some damage before their termination. In our case, the worst was a sales person taking privileged customer account information with them to our competition.
This is a good point. My concern for a Japanese company is minimal.StewNTexas wrote:Please keep in mind that Sony is NOT an American company.
It is a Japanese company, with offices in our country in order to make money. Please take a look at the history between Japan and N. Korea, as well as N. Koreas backer, China.
This might change how this story is perceived if our media looked into the entire situation. But our media seems to act only on 'feelings' and popular opinion, facts having no place in their writings or speeches.
No, I do not have tinfoil headgear, and have never seen a black helicopter.