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While Americans flock to the movie and regard it as their "patriotic duty" to watch a tasteless and worthless movie.
From Mark Sleboda:
"“Seeing
a B-rate "comedy" about US journalists assassinating
another country's leader is evidently now a "patriotic duty"
in the US.
Well
in Obama's America - the Drone King with a kill list and an
assassination czar who jokes "Turns out I'm pretty good at
killing people" - that actually makes a perverse sort of sense.
Assassination as patriotism.”
Security
firm says Sony hack might have been an inside job
RT,
26
December, 2014
Despite
claims by the FBI that North Korea was behind the massive hack
against Sony, several cybersecurity experts have come forward to
raise questions about the allegation, with some suggesting that
insiders at the company could be to blame.
One
such expert, Kurt Stammberger from the Norse cybersecuirty firm,
told CBS
News that
his team believes a woman identified only as “Lena” was heavily
involved in the hack – not North Korea.
"We
are very confident that this was not an attack master-minded by North
Korea and that insiders were key to the implementation of one of the
most devastating attacks in history," he
told the news outlet.
"Sony
was not just hacked, this is a company that was essentially nuked
from the inside,” Stammberger dded.
Little
is known about Lena, but Norse believes the woman is somehow linked
with the hacking group behind the attack, known as the 'Guardians of
Peace.' The firm also suspects the woman was a former employee of
Sony who worked there for 10 years before leaving in May 2014.
According
to Stammberger, Lena’s position in the company would have given her
the access and knowledge needed to identify the servers that hackers
ultimately stole troves of data from.
Stammberger
didn’t completely rule out North Korea’s role in the cyber
attack, but he told CBS that evidence pointing to the country could
actually be a case of misdirection.
"There
are certainly North Korean fingerprints on this but when we run all
those leads to ground they turn out to be decoys or red herrings," he
said.
AFP Photo
“Technical
analysis of the data deletion malware used in this attack revealed
links to other malware that the FBI knows North Korea actors
previously developed,” the
FBI said in its statement. “The
FBI also observed significant overlap between the infrastructure used
in this attack and other malicious cyber activity the US government
has previously linked directly to North Korea.”
“Separately,
the tools used in the SPE attack have similarities to a cyberattack
in March of last year against South Korean banks and media outlets,
which was carried out by North Korea.”
Still,
some remain unconvinced. Cybersecurity expert Bruce
Schneier wrote that
the code used by the hackers seems “to
point in all directions at once.” Looking
at the evidence cited by the FBI, Schneier said it’s the kind that
is “easy
to fake, and it’s even easier to interpret it incorrectly.” He
also cast doubt on the “insider threat” theory, arguing that such
an individual wouldn’t need the hacking tools used to breach Sony’s
servers.
Schneier
noted that the FBI has not revealed all the reasons for its claim,
though, and acknowledged that classified evidence could clearly point
the finger at North Korea. Unless that evidence is known, it’s hard
to say with any certainty.
Other
possibilities include the idea that North Korea “co-opted” the
initial attack after an embarrassing glut of information was made
public, using that as an opportunity to strike Sony, as it was
reeling and facing pressure to cancel 'The Interview' movie.
While
Sony did cancel the premiere and release of 'The Interview' – a
comedy which tells the story of a CIA plot to assassinate North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un – it has since relented in the face of
public criticism, which included harsh words from President Barack
Obama. The movie is now available on streaming services and will be
in theaters in limited release on Christmas Day.
Regarding
the film’s release, a North Korean envoy to the United Nations said
the country will condemn the decision but will not have any “physical
reaction.” He
added that the movie is an "unpardonable
mockery of our sovereignty and dignity of our supreme leader."
The
diplomat also told the Associated Press that his country was not
involved in the hack.
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