# Hacking emails is no joke - why don't Americans Care about the Sony Hack? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hacking-emails-is-no-joke-why-dont-americans-care-about-the-sony-hack/707367 "2014-12-16T04:56:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hacking-emails-is-no-joke-why-dont-americans-care-about-the-sony-hack/707367/41 "2014-12-19T19:55:18Z")
I don’t really care that much because Sony is a big target with billions of dollars and if they can’t secure themselves or at least deal properly with the aftermath I don’t really feel that sorry for them. Big corporations tend to be good at making and wasting lots and lots of money. Not so good at getting little details right. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hacking-emails-is-no-joke-why-dont-americans-care-about-the-sony-hack/707367/42 "2014-12-19T21:04:56Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > [Excellent Editorial.](http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-tech-terrorists-large-article-1.2043668) > > These attacks went way beyond celebrities. [Sony employees and their families medical records have been leaked.](http://www.cnet.com/news/13-revelations-from-the-sony-hack/) This was targeted intimidation by N Korea and the American public doesn’t seem to give a crap. If they can hack Sony what other companies are vulnerable? What other information have they already stolen that’s not even known? It seems that every few months, another big corporation gets hacked. Target, Home Depot, whoever. At least this hack hasn’t spilled millions of customers’ credit info. Why should we care more about this one than the others? Sorry, but this one’s about #1,273 on the RTFirefly Worry Priority List. I think the Target and Home Dopey hacks each got into the top thousand. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hacking-emails-is-no-joke-why-dont-americans-care-about-the-sony-hack/707367/43 "2014-12-21T14:41:09Z")
I didn’t know that much about it. I just assumed at first that Sony did it to themselves to hype _The Interview._ OK, to dump _The Interview._ OK, maybe it’s real. Hey, look, a [question about Pusheen!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=743859) ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hacking-emails-is-no-joke-why-dont-americans-care-about-the-sony-hack/707367/44 "2014-12-21T14:52:03Z")
Call me a conspiracy nut (or maybe I’m just cynical about US intelligence), but I don’t put a lot of stock in the belief that NK is behind this. Maybe it is. I wouldn’t put it past NK to do something like this. But I will not be the least bit surprised if new intelligence reveals that NK was framed. Or that Sony itself is involved. I don’t trust anything I hear anymore. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hacking-emails-is-no-joke-why-dont-americans-care-about-the-sony-hack/707367/45 "2014-12-21T14:54:17Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > It takes a lot to make one sympathise with the North Koreans, but if another country made an allegedly funny movie about their plot to assassinate the current US president, America would shit a lung about “terrorism”. We really wouldn’t. Well, some weirdos would get upset, but “terrorism” seems completely the wrong word, anyway. > [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > And I strongly suspect that a good 50% of the American public wouldn’t give two shits if a movie about the assassination of a sitting president were made. Not only that, but the President is a public figure, in the public domain, and people can do what they want with his likeness. The USA is literally big enough to shrug jokes like that off, and too big to get that upset (officially, or even unofficially for the most part) about them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hacking-emails-is-no-joke-why-dont-americans-care-about-the-sony-hack/707367.md?page=2)