# Sony hackers take on a terroristic tone!

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 16, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-hackers-take-on-a-terroristic-tone/707435 "2014-12-16T20:41:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-hackers-take-on-a-terroristic-tone/707435/21 "2014-12-18T02:00:13Z")

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> [@garygnu](#):
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> The New York Times is reporting that US intelligence has linked it to North Korea ([mobile link](http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/asia/us-links-north-korea-to-sony-hacking.html?_r=0&referrer=)) You actually thought it was anyone else?

Honestly seemed like something some hackers were doing for the Lulz.

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**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-hackers-take-on-a-terroristic-tone/707435/22 "2014-12-18T14:58:45Z")

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I look forward to more information on how they identified NK as the source. \*Wired \*has a pretty good [article](http://www.wired.com/2014/12/evidence-of-north-korea-hack-is-thin/) arguing that the evidence for NK being behind the attack is flimsy – at least the evidence that’s publicly available. So far, there are only two main pieces of evidence we know about that point to NK, and both of those are pretty circumstantial: the fact that some of the malware was apparently written on a computer using the Korean language, and the fact that some of the malware also turned up in earlier attacks attributed (inconclusively) to NK.

The _Wired_ article offers a number of alternative scenarios, including that multiple independent attackers breached Sony and are taking advantage of the chaos to press their advantage. So, who knows? In another thread, I said I was kind of leaning toward NK being the source of the attacks, but I’m still hanging on to my weasel words for now.

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