Why is the US government the one considering retaliation against North Korea for hacking Sony

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How strong is the evidence that the Norkies are behind this? I haven’t followed the story at all closely.

Regards,
Shodan

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Hmmm! That’s ah, great! Really great!

Okay Turnip, don’t panic… just keep smiling and back away slowwwwwly toward the exit…

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And NK doesn’t have much of an infrastructure to target in return for this alleged attack. They target a major corporation and prevent the release of a major motion picture. What are we going to do in return - shut down their server and shoot the homing pigeon?

Regards,
Shodan

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Nice joke, but they may actually be using that:

Maybe we can take down the world’s creepiest hotel instead.

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“To locate, close with, and destroy the enemy, by fire and maneuver, or repel the enemy assault by fire and close combat.”

Marine Corp motto writers get paid by the word, evidently.

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I’m not sure there is any such evidence known to the public, beyond just widespread speculation. I may be wrong.

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I stand corrected. Intelligence officials are saying off the record that the government has concluded that North Korea is responsible.

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Thanks for the info. Time to send Team America after them!

Regards,
Shodan

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I’m conflicted on this. One one hand, it galls me that the bad guys won, and terroristic threats ended up being totally 100% successful.

On the other hand, talking about “retaliation” for North Korea derailing a rather stupid-looking comedy seems a bit like using a sledgehammer to swat a mosquito.

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Apparently they completely wrecked Sony Pictures’ IT infrastructure, to the point where they may not be able to pay employees because they have no payroll systems.

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The majority of the Japanese populace is rather happy with their anti-militaristic constitutional requirement.

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If we’re able to track down the people associated with the attack, it would be possible for Sony to re-issue the thing.

And of course, Sony could simply give the film out to YouTube and Netflix and Hulu and everyone else who wants it for free, and end up having made the most watched film in the world before the end of January.

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Compared to the other stuff North Korea does to the international community like manufacture and sell drugs or selling nuclear technology, hacking into Sony is a pretty mild thing they done. But since the world doesn’t react when NK sells nuclear technology to Syria or Myanmar, or when they manufacture meth and sell it overseas I doubt they react to this hacking scandal.

Either way, this was an attack on US soil but it was an attack on a Japanese company and it was an assault on freedom of speech in general, something 100+ nations recognize as an important right. You’d assume it wouldn’t just be the US responding.

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Yesterday I saw that some theaters are going to show Team America in place of the canceled movie. Today I see that some theaters are canceling Team America too!

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Way to bum everyone out, North Korea.

Pshhh.

36

Why can’t these threats happen to movies like “Battleship” or “Transformers 2?”

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Hey, they don’t call it a theatre of war for nothing.

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You mean the one they just changed?

The LDP (the ruling party) just won a smashing victory in last sundays elections.

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Utterly incorrect. They just don’t use their military to attack people anymore.

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The constitution didn’t change. Japan has been a single-party state for about the same amount of time as China, so it’s not terribly meaningful that the LDP won. They have always won. The Prime Minister changes because the party wants him to change, not because the LDP will get voted out.

But Abe’s being ambitious about jazzing up the Japanese economy, so he’s been able to attach a few side issues that the LDP is for, but the people aren’t, to his overall political bag.