# So how do we payback North Korea for the Sony hacking?

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**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")\
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**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 23, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/81 "2014-12-23T01:56:17Z")

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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703852.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703852.html)

I gotta say those insurance companies got what they deserved when they agreed to be bound by the North Korean legal system.

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/82 "2014-12-23T04:02:01Z")

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If the US just brought down the North Korean internet, that is fucking juvenile. A handful of people would notice that in North korea.

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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/83 "2014-12-23T04:17:22Z")

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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> If the US just brought down the North Korean internet, that is fucking juvenile. A handful of people would notice that in North korea.

The handful that run the country.

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**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 23, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/84 "2014-12-23T04:53:22Z")

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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> If the US just brought down the North Korean internet, that is fucking juvenile. A handful of people would notice that in North korea.

The Dear Leader wouldn’t be able to get his por…check his stock returns.

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-we-payback-north-korea-for-the-sony-hacking/707663/85 "2014-12-31T06:02:53Z")

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> A briefing for FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack by a security firm that says its research points to laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the perpetrator provided no usable new evidence, an official said Tuesday.

[http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/fbi-briefed-on-alternate-sony-hack-theory-113866.html](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/fbi-briefed-on-alternate-sony-hack-theory-113866.html)

The FBI still thinks North Korea was behind the hacking.

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