Sony hack takes a very serious turn

[HUGGY]

Tme for obumble to normalize relationships with North Korea and find out what we can do to please Kim Jong Un.

^^^^ Time for right-wingers to shamelessly use this opportunity to fire up the voter base, by blaming Libs.

Benghazi!

 

[Uncensored2008]

You are full of it. We nuke people over a threat? Seriously, dude - please pull your head out of your ass.

It's not a threat, they have acted on it. When/if they hack the power grid, should we apologize to them?

 

[HUGGY]

You are full of it. We nuke people over a threat? Seriously, dude - please pull your head out of your ass.

It's not a threat, they have acted on it. When/if they hack the power grid, should we apologize to them?

Why would we need power grid controls hooked up to the general public access internet? I'm no computer wiz but I am smart enough to have a seperate computer/s at home that keep vital info safe from access.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Why would we need power grid controls hooked up to the general public access internet? I'm no computer wiz but I am smart enough to have a seperate computer/s at home that keep vital info safe from access.

You have no clue at all what is going on around you.

Smoke another bowl and pray to Obama...

 

[HUGGY]

Why would we need power grid controls hooked up to the general public access internet? I'm no computer wiz but I am smart enough to have a seperate computer/s at home that keep vital info safe from access.

You have no clue at all what is going on around you.

Smoke another bowl and pray to Obama...

And YOU DO? I don't take illegal drugs or even legal ones not prescribed by my doctors.

I would bet that most Americans don't know all the facts about this and most other topics.

I don't pray to Obama. He was elected the president though and I do know that the GOPers promised to make his tenure ruined at a price that cost the whole country many missed opportunities to advance in many areas and even stay even in areas that needed repairs and attention.

I know that the mindless butthurt expressed by the whiney republicans has done NOTHING for our nation. I know they have spent huge ammounts of wasted time pursuing stupid issues like Benghazi just to give Obama a black eye. All this against the will of the American people that had vetted Obama for two years and elected him TWICE to the white house.

I'm no great fan of Obama but only a moron would ignore the fact that the population elected him. Don't they have a right to expect that their will be done?

I DO KNOW that the GOPers do not respect the democratic process and attemp-t to game it at every opportunity. I DO KNOW that the republicans lie about everything and anything and NEVER take responsibility for their mistakes.

I DO know that Bush I and Bush II took us into illegal wars and got many thousands of our young and best unneccessarily killed and many more thousands wounded. And for WHAT? And to what end? The creation of Al Kaida and ISIL? The effects of their dissrespect of the Arabs was 9/11. I DO KNOW THAT.

So WHAT pray tell SHOULD I know?

Spare me your lies please.

I have a life to live and you people have ruined the political PROCESS. I used to have interest but there is no working with ignorance and crazy religious agenda driven assholes.

 

[Uncensored2008]

And YOU DO? I don't take illegal drugs or even legal ones not prescribed by my doctors.

I would bet that most Americans don't know all the facts about this and most other topics.

I don't pray to Obama. He was elected the president though and I do know that the GOPers promised to make his tenure ruined at a price that cost the whole country many missed opportunities to advance in many areas and even stay even in areas that needed repairs and attention.

I know that the mindless butthurt expressed by the whiney republicans has done NOTHING for our nation. I know they have spent huge ammounts of wasted time pursuing stupid issues like Benghazi just to give Obama a black eye. All this against the will of the American people that had vetted Obama for two years and elected him TWICE to the white house.

I'm no great fan of Obama but only a moron would ignore the fact that the population elected him. Don't they have a right to expect that their will be done?

I DO KNOW that the GOPers do not respect the democratic process and attemp-t to game it at every opportunity. I DO KNOW that the republicans lie about everything and anything and NEVER take responsibility for their mistakes.

I DO know that Bush I and Bush II took us into illegal wars and got many thousands of our young and best unneccessarily killed and many more thousands wounded. And for WHAT? And to what end? The creation of Al Kaida and ISIL? The effects of their dissrespect of the Arabs was 9/11. I DO KNOW THAT.

So WHAT pray tell SHOULD I know?

Spare me your lies please.

I have a life to live and you people have ruined the political PROCESS. I used to have interest but there is no working with ignorance and crazy religious agenda driven assholes.

Huggy, you display an enduring ignorance on this board.

{“There have been documented attacks, both cyber and physical on the electric grid which resulted in equipment damage, service disruption and long term repair,” said Sean McGurk, global manager for critical infrastructure protection at Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), the largest U.S. wireless carrier.}

Hackers Find Open Back Door to Power Grid With Renewables - Bloomberg

So, does this mean the Chinese can shut down the entire U.S. Power grid? No, but does it matter? Remember the black out of NY City for 3 days? Chinese hackers COULD take down New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas. Think of a coordinated strike on the 5 largest cities? Very doable. What sort of economic impact would this have?

{But the blackout was a big deal, leading to at least 11 deaths and costing the economy some $10 billion. More important, the disaster underscored just how rickety our interconnected and jury-rigged electrical grid was — and how vulnerable it could be to disruption, both accidental and malevolent.}

10 Years After the 2003 Blackout Is the Grid Ready for Disaster TIME.com

The major grids are all on the internet, every last one.

 

[Marianne]

Things just took a very serious turn (not that the hacking was to be taken lightly)

This may be just a threat/scare tactic to keep asses out of the seats for this film or some serious shit is about to go down.

I don't know how I feel at this point. My first reaction is that theatre's should just call it off, pull the film. The possibility of losing a lot of lives--or a few lives-- for a silly movie is just not worth it. On the other hand, nothing could happen. I don't know folks, is it worth it?

Sony Hackers Threaten People Who See The Interview Invoke 9 11

I think they should have released it on DVD. By caving what they've allowed a spoiled brat brutal dictator who thinks way too much of himself, to continue to be delusional in thinking the rest of the world owes him respect. We don't. Sony has just helped erode our right to free speech, whats next? Islam,Castro,that clown directing Boko Haram? Are we going to cave to their terrorist threats too? Tell them to kiss our American asses. Obama should cut into all programing for a Presidential announcement and proceed to nationally play the film on all the major networks. If we run and hide the terrorists win. This will never end now until that film is released.

 

[Iceweasel]

No. Our freedom of speech is absolute.

No, you can't shout fire in a crowded theater. But they are interfering with our right to go full retard watching a dumb comedy.

Wrong issue. One cannot shout fire in a crowded movie theater, What about a theater that has only one viewer sitting next to an exit?

I digress....

Yes, you digress. A lot. You said freedom of speech was absolute. It isn't and one viewer isn't a crowd. WTF is wrong with you?

 

[8236]

Has anyone else noticed that this North Korean -Sony cyber hack stuff occured immediately before the takedown of nearly all the worlds bittorrent servers by 16 December (Swedish raid on pirate bay servers). Maybe it was just a capitalist pre-christmas disruption attempt? Lol no: NSA.
Im now going to make a fortune printing off t shirts taking the piss out of North Koreas fattest man, Kim Jung Scum.

Apologies if anyone has made this observation before, aint got time to read all the thread.

 

[HUGGY]

And YOU DO? I don't take illegal drugs or even legal ones not prescribed by my doctors.

I would bet that most Americans don't know all the facts about this and most other topics.

I don't pray to Obama. He was elected the president though and I do know that the GOPers promised to make his tenure ruined at a price that cost the whole country many missed opportunities to advance in many areas and even stay even in areas that needed repairs and attention.

I know that the mindless butthurt expressed by the whiney republicans has done NOTHING for our nation. I know they have spent huge ammounts of wasted time pursuing stupid issues like Benghazi just to give Obama a black eye. All this against the will of the American people that had vetted Obama for two years and elected him TWICE to the white house.

I'm no great fan of Obama but only a moron would ignore the fact that the population elected him. Don't they have a right to expect that their will be done?

I DO KNOW that the GOPers do not respect the democratic process and attemp-t to game it at every opportunity. I DO KNOW that the republicans lie about everything and anything and NEVER take responsibility for their mistakes.

I DO know that Bush I and Bush II took us into illegal wars and got many thousands of our young and best unneccessarily killed and many more thousands wounded. And for WHAT? And to what end? The creation of Al Kaida and ISIL? The effects of their dissrespect of the Arabs was 9/11. I DO KNOW THAT.

So WHAT pray tell SHOULD I know?

Spare me your lies please.

I have a life to live and you people have ruined the political PROCESS. I used to have interest but there is no working with ignorance and crazy religious agenda driven assholes.

Huggy, you display an enduring ignorance on this board.

{“There have been documented attacks, both cyber and physical on the electric grid which resulted in equipment damage, service disruption and long term repair,” said Sean McGurk, global manager for critical infrastructure protection at Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), the largest U.S. wireless carrier.}

Hackers Find Open Back Door to Power Grid With Renewables - Bloomberg

So, does this mean the Chinese can shut down the entire U.S. Power grid? No, but does it matter? Remember the black out of NY City for 3 days? Chinese hackers COULD take down New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas. Think of a coordinated strike on the 5 largest cities? Very doable. What sort of economic impact would this have?

{But the blackout was a big deal, leading to at least 11 deaths and costing the economy some $10 billion. More important, the disaster underscored just how rickety our interconnected and jury-rigged electrical grid was — and how vulnerable it could be to disruption, both accidental and malevolent.}

10 Years After the 2003 Blackout Is the Grid Ready for Disaster TIME.com

The major grids are all on the internet, every last one.

You really are a hateful SOB aren't you.

I suggest that we take into consideration that hackers exist and take measures to ensure they cannot do bad things to our strategic industries including power. If it takes a few people hired in every power station to operate the management of that station then so be it. I do know more than you think about how computers can be given many tasks in a specific environment with completely safe results.

I was one of the employees that built Bill Gates compound on Lake Washington. It is one of the most highly computer enfused environments on the planet. There is no doubt in my mind that Bill's house is completely safe from outside hacker attack. I built the computer operated shades, blinds and window treatments thruout the project and saw the whole system being constructed. That doesn't make me the know it all expert but I dare say it offered me a real time glimpse of state of the art technology of 1995 and it was impressive. I was one of the few people to work practically everywhere in the compound and highly concentrated work in Bill's private living and working spaces. I seriously doubt if you had a better look at real technological installations than I.

Thanks for playing. Let me know when you catch up.

 

[dannyboys]

This is what is going to happen this year. The sick **** pedohile ruling the ******* zombies in NK is going to wake up one morning and tell his generals to send half a million of his zombie troops to invade SK. He'll keep the other half million at home to make sure he gets his child porno and caviar delivered.
Then BOBO will suddenly get a bad headache and go to bed and what's left of the gutted US military will have to go to SK's aid. This WILL start a regional war on the Korean peninsula. The US has bombs designed to just take out a city at a time.
The sick **** KIM will disappear into the wind and he'll leave that part of the world expecting the ******* US to bail them out.......as ******* usual!. Not this time.

 

[8236]

Since China is NKs closest ally, has anyone considered the possibility that all of NKs crazy brinkmanship is a smokescreen used, funded and supported by the Chinese to deflect attention from their own plans for world hegemony. I wouldnt be surprised if the Russians are meddling in the background as well.

Come on Americans, why are you so blind that you cant see the geopolitics at play here. The powers that be in the US have repeatedly demonstrated their disconnect from global realities. I dont need to list the cases. You know them.

I know there are individuals in Beijing and the Kremlin wringing their hands with glee because the worlds (kind of) only superpower is such an easily mislead sucker for a story that the word "terrorism" and "national security" can be tagged to.

Wake up America. You look and sound so silly when talking as though you can solve all OUR problems through the barrel of a gun.

 

[HUGGY]

NK invading SK is a myth. The mental midget that runs NK cannot even afford to feed his population with minimum delivery problems...Just HOW do you believe he will even FEED an army during an invasion. His troops are just window dressing. When they go across the border and see the difference in lifestyle they will immediately see that they have been lied to. There are just SO many reasons and levels why an NK invasion would fail. And fail HORRIBLY ! Just imagine how fast all his vehicles would be destroyed from the air. You think his million man army will WALK hungry through SK? Just how would they re-supply with ammo?

Even if the retard tried to nuke someone he HAS to know missle #2 and every living thing in NK would be burnt to a cinder.

The little fat **** is a stupid joke. I wish he WOULD attempt to invade. His country's total destruction would be the quickest in history.

 

[LoneLaugher]

This is what is going to happen this year. The sick **** pedohile ruling the ******* zombies in NK is going to wake up one morning and tell his generals to send half a million of his zombie troops to invade SK. He'll keep the other half million at home to make sure he gets his child porno and caviar delivered.
Then BOBO will suddenly get a bad headache and go to bed and what's left of the gutted US military will have to go to SK's aid. This WILL start a regional war on the Korean peninsula. The US has bombs designed to just take out a city at a time.
The sick **** KIM will disappear into the wind and he'll leave that part of the world expecting the ******* US to bail them out.......as ******* usual!. Not this time.

How do you live with such fear? Seriously.

 

[Ravi]

Things just took a very serious turn (not that the hacking was to be taken lightly)

This may be just a threat/scare tactic to keep asses out of the seats for this film or some serious shit is about to go down.

I don't know how I feel at this point. My first reaction is that theatre's should just call it off, pull the film. The possibility of losing a lot of lives--or a few lives-- for a silly movie is just not worth it. On the other hand, nothing could happen. I don't know folks, is it worth it?

Sony Hackers Threaten People Who See The Interview Invoke 9 11

I think they should have released it on DVD. By caving what they've allowed a spoiled brat brutal dictator who thinks way too much of himself, to continue to be delusional in thinking the rest of the world owes him respect. We don't. Sony has just helped erode our right to free speech, whats next? Islam,Castro,that clown directing Boko Haram? Are we going to cave to their terrorist threats too? Tell them to kiss our American asses. Obama should cut into all programing for a Presidential announcement and proceed to nationally play the film on all the major networks. If we run and hide the terrorists win. This will never end now until that film is released.

Right. A politician should force a business to follow his will. You sound almost as stupid as asshole Kim.

 

[Gracie]

Since China is NKs closest ally, has anyone considered the possibility that all of NKs crazy brinkmanship is a smokescreen used, funded and supported by the Chinese to deflect attention from their own plans for world hegemony. I wouldnt be surprised if the Russians are meddling in the background as well.

Come on Americans, why are you so blind that you cant see the geopolitics at play here. The powers that be in the US have repeatedly demonstrated their disconnect from global realities. I dont need to list the cases. You know them.

I know there are individuals in Beijing and the Kremlin wringing their hands with glee because the worlds (kind of) only superpower is such an easily mislead sucker for a story that the word "terrorism" and "national security" can be tagged to.

Wake up America. You look and sound so silly when talking as though you can solve all OUR problems through the barrel of a gun.

Actually, I have had thoughts all along that NK has help...from China. Dad was a smart man. He said when I was just a kid...way back in the 1950's that Russia is NOT the problem. CHINA is the problem and nobody sees it. That was back then. This is now. I never forgot what he said, either. Kim FuckFattyHo is only barking because his backup is a much bigger threat. China.

 

[Pogo]

Obama should cut into all programing for a Presidential announcement and proceed to nationally play the film on all the major networks. If we run and hide the terrorists win. This will never end now until that film is released.

I love this idea. What are they gonna do, go hunt down every TV set?

Would spike O'bama's approval ratings big time too.

 

[Politico]

Sounds like the whole thing is a publicity stunt to gin up interest in a sucky movie.

Disney never had to do this with the "Toy Story" franchise.

Also, NK is yet more fruit of the poisoned "Dems working for Communists", McCarthy tried to warn us about.

Seriously 12 pages and crazy Frank is the only one who gets it? Everything from scripts to completed movies were supposedly stolen and released to the public yet no one can provide any links where they can be downloaded.

You don't know where to look. Some of them have been taken down under threats of legal action already but there's still some out there. This happened on the 24th of November so things are drying up.....and no I won't provide links

Dunno... I just looked for any hacked emails and couldn't find anything but the reporting...no actual hacked emails. Seems if this was true there would be something out there to see. Clearly there is nothing for SONY to whine about if we have to beg Cereal Killer for a glimpse of these emails.

Most of it has already been taken down including 4 or 5 unreleased movies.

Its mostly pretty boring stuff. Crap about regurgitating films that nobody botherd to watch and other drab white-noise.

Not posting them due to liability issues.

When something actually gets on the internet it never goes away.

 

[Pogo]

Sony confirms The Interview’ will have Christmas Day screenings after all

>> In a statement Tuesday, Sony confirmed that it will be releasing the film in "limited release" in the United States on Christmas Day.

"We have never given up on releasing The Interview and we're excited our movie will be in a number of theaters on Christmas Day," said Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Entertainment. "At the same time, we are continuing our efforts to secure more platforms and more theaters so that this movie reaches the largest possible audience."
...
The studio did not say how many theaters will be a part of the release. Washington’s independent West End cinema will be showing “The Interview” on Christmas. In Baltimore, Eastpoint 10 will screen the film, as will the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema One Loudoun in Ashburn, Va.


A Twitter message from the chief executive of Alamo Drafthouse, confirmed that that national chain will be a part of the film's release. <<

 

[Unkotare]

Since China is NKs closest ally, has anyone considered the possibility that all of NKs crazy brinkmanship is a smokescreen used, funded and supported by the Chinese to deflect attention from their own plans for world hegemony.....

North Korea is just a giant pain in the ass to China. Try another conspiracy.