and typical dumb shit N Korea says
but it did take the eye off of the torture report.
The Sony Hack has revealed a few things going unreported.
Leaked emails from the hack against Sony show that major movie companies are working together with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) on a project aimed to stop a company known as "Goliath."
It's pretty clear they're referring to Google.
The Verge first reported on an email from one of the MPAA's top lawyers, Steven Fabrizio, laying out Hollywood's strategy against Goliath.
From Hollywood's perspective, Goliath is enabling piracy online. Hollywood's goal appears to be blocking access to pirated movies.
"We start from the premise that site blocking is a means to an end," said Fabrizio.
But what stands out from the leaked emails is that the major studios, who normally compete against each other, are banding together with the MPAA to defeat an enemy they can't even bring themselves to name.
It's like when Harry Potter characters call Voldemort "he who must not be named."
Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/project-goliath-emails-show-how-scared-hollywood-is-of-google-2014-12?r=US#ixzz3MSj0ueWD
Security blogger Marc W. Rogers documents a number of other indications that North Korea was not involved.
“The fact that the code was written on a PC with Korean locale & language actually makes it less likely to be North Korea,” Rogers explains. “Not least because they don’t speak traditional ‘Korean’ in North Korea, they speak their own dialect and traditional Korean is forbidden. This is one of the key things that has made communication with North Korean refugees difficult.”
Additionally, the broken English used “looks deliberately bad and doesn’t exhibit any of the classic comprehension mistakes you actually expect to see in ‘Konglish’. i.e it reads to me like an English speaker pretending to be bad at writing English.”
Rogers also explains how the hacker’s familiarity with the infrastructure clearly points to an insider being responsible.
“It’s clear from the hard-coded paths and passwords in the malware that whoever wrote it had extensive knowledge of Sony’s internal architecture and access to key passwords,” Rogers notes. “While it’s plausible that an attacker could have built up this knowledge over time and then used it to make the malware, Occam’s razor suggests the simpler explanation of an insider.”
Indeed, Sony executives themselves are convinced that the hack was an inside job. “We’re told the people at Sony who are investigating believe the hackers had intimate knowledge of mail systems and their configurations,” reports TMZ. “They also believe the hackers have knowledge of the internal media distribution systems and the internal IT systems, including human resources and payroll.”
http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/18/why-the-sony-hack-is-unlikely-to-be-the-work-of-north-korea/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-korea-didnt-hack-sony-pictures-who-hell-did-1480082
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