# So how do we payback North Korea for the Sony hacking? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 19, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663 "2014-12-19T14:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/41 "2014-12-19T21:31:35Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > This is easy and how has it not been said. > > Sent over Katic Couric to do an interview and have her assassinate KJI It hasn’t been said because Kim Jong-il has been dead for three years. Unless he’s a ZOMBIE! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/42 "2014-12-19T22:11:05Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](#): > > Commission \*The Interview 2 \*at the earliest opportunity. That’ll show 'em we mean business! Yeah, but if it accidentally got released, that would just be punishing _us_. ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/43 "2014-12-19T23:32:31Z")
Release the film on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/44 "2014-12-20T00:19:10Z")
Have Trey Parker write a movie about the actual history of the Kim family as it is taught to North Koreans. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/45 "2014-12-20T01:57:42Z")
Board & capture their merchant fleet, when they are at sea. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/46 "2014-12-20T02:13:18Z")
To: thegreatandresplendentsupremeleaderkimjongun[at]imnotgooglingthat.kp Subject: Read this Body: Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of your enormity, O Kim the Stupendous. Please check [this link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect) though. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/47 "2014-12-20T02:45:16Z")
Anyone else see the bit about the DPRK’s most elite hackers are living in a very nice Chinese hotel? If so, they are presumably using Chinese IP’s and we probably shouldn’t send a bomb over the web to those addresses. We can jam radio signals - can we fry the hardware without using fission weapons? Frying the launch control electronics at their missile test site(s) would be a nice start. Or wait until fat boy is stuck in a public place for a couple of hours - the next big patriotic parade of cardboard tubes with fins - and explode a confetti bomb 100’ over his head - with weighted streamers with humiliating messages/facts on them in really, really BIG letters - and each of the tiny bits have the same message(s) - let’s see security try to grab all of them before anyone reads them. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/48 "2014-12-20T03:02:10Z")
If I see North Korea at a party, I shall ignore them. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/49 "2014-12-20T03:24:19Z")
I’ve heard that the FBI is considering freezing KJU’s bank accounts, thereby preventing him from paying his generals. This could turn out to be something serious. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/50 "2014-12-20T03:53:15Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Perhaps Sony Pictures could accidentally let another groups of hackers get their hands on _The Interview_, who would then post the entire film on a Russian internet site so the whole world could watch it for free. North Korea could then retaliate against Russia and the problem could move over there. Putin would shut that down pretty fast. Russia’s been playing really nice with North Korea because that want to run a natural gas pipeline down to South Korea. Kim’s even been invited for a state visit this spring. > [@medstar](#): > > I’ve heard that the FBI is considering freezing KJU’s bank accounts, thereby preventing him from paying his generals. This could turn out to be something serious. How does that work? :dubious: I doubt North Korea has accounts at American banks (save for their mission to the UN). ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/51 "2014-12-20T04:20:47Z")
Send them the largest collection of Rogen/Franco films in existence, to be screened twice nightly for the troops. Insist that Kim be projectionist. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/52 "2014-12-20T04:33:18Z")
Digitize Dear Leader as Ned Beatty in the “squeal like a pig” scene from _Deliverance_. Distribute widely. ---
**Author:** ![Lubricious\_Integument](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lubricious\_Integument](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lubricious_Integument)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/53 "2014-12-20T04:41:31Z")
> [@Habeed](#): > > Just think about it rationally for a second. You are right. Sorry for asking you to condescend to my level of stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/54 "2014-12-20T08:13:36Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > Send them the largest collection of Rogen/Franco films in existence, to be screened twice nightly for the troops. Insist that Kim be projectionist. And Sean Hannity getting butt fucked by a mule. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/55 "2014-12-21T10:42:15Z")
I can’t even work out how North Korea survives given its exports are about $8 billion a year (I think). With its massive military how can it keep going - especially now Russia has its own financial problems. Maybe ask them to pay for the pizza in foreign currency? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/56 "2014-12-21T13:24:32Z")
I’ve a rather unique idea: So, we use a couple of stooges to set up an interview, but it’s really a ruse… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/57 "2014-12-21T14:11:26Z")
Buy North Korea a subscription to Comcast Cable and let them try to cancel it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/58 "2014-12-21T15:01:29Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Buy North Korea a subscription to Comcast Cable and let them try to cancel it. This! This, by God! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/59 "2014-12-21T15:07:06Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I can’t even work out how North Korea survives given its exports are about $8 billion a year (I think). With its massive military how can it keep going - especially now Russia has its own financial problems. Periodic famine and chronic malnutrition brings up some questions on whether you can call it survival or a lingering death. Usually when the food situation gets really bad there’s outside aid; till 2009 that included aid from the US. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/60 "2014-12-22T01:58:18Z")
I’m not sure why there needs to be a US government response to the hacking of a private corporation, especially when that corporation was apparently negligent in its information security practices. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663.md?page=4)