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[gardenman]

On 12/17/2014 Christmas Balls said:

On 12/17/2014 kdgn said:

On 12/17/2014 gardenman said:

From what I understand of the hack, it seems to have been done/aided by a former employee who had internal access to the system. It's hard to make a system to protect against such an action.

That's what I read on TMZ this morning. Sony is speculating that it's an inside job. They recently laid off a lot of IT people.

I wonder how many years in prison someone can be sentenced to for doing this not to mention threatening moviegoers.

We'd be looking at a very substantial prison sentence. I wouldn't be shocked to see it be life in prison for the totality of charges. Whoever did it tried to make it look like the hack came from Korea, but serious hackers aren't impressed and suspect it was a relative novice hacker who took advantage of his knowledge of the system to exploit it. I have a suspicion that if Sony put out a substantial reward the hacker community would quickly uncover the person responsible and expose them. You can't really do much online without leaving footprints that someone can track. Hackers are often the best at finding other hackers, especially if it's a hacker they don't respect, and they don't seem to respect whoever did this. Law enforcement has to get warrants and go through the legal maze to track someone, but hackers don't really care about the niceties. They can probably find the guy/gal in relatively short order.

[Lotus]

On 12/17/2014 gardenman said:

From what I understand of the hack, it seems to have been done/aided by a former employee who had internal access to the system. It's hard to make a system to protect against such an action.

Yes, I heard that this morning on the news....but, at that point was only speculation.

Has it been confirmed yet?

[Tyak]

Total surrender. That is a shame.

[dooBdoo]

On 12/17/2014 Lotus~ said:

On 12/17/2014 gardenman said:

From what I understand of the hack, it seems to have been done/aided by a former employee who had internal access to the system. It's hard to make a system to protect against such an action.

Yes, I heard that this morning on the news....but, at that point was only speculation.

Has it been confirmed yet?

Hi, Lotus! The latest tech chatter I've heard says regardless of the speculation about insiders, federal investigators have found evidence of a connection to North Korea and an announcement is imminent.

[Lotus]

Just heard......it's North Korea per the FBI.

I guess they have no sense of humor

[dooBdoo]

On 12/17/2014 Lotus~ said:

Just heard......it's North Korea per the FBI.

I guess they have no sense of humor

Yep. That's what it sounds like.

[Lotus]

On 12/17/2014 Tyak said:

Total surrender. That is a shame.

Wow.....just heard the movie may not be released at all.

[Tyak]

On 12/17/2014 Lotus~ said:

Just heard......it's North Korea per the FBI.

I guess they have no sense of humor

And Sony has no cahoneys.

[tansy]

On 12/17/2014 Lotus~ said:

On 12/17/2014 Tyak said:

Total surrender. That is a shame.

Wow.....just heard the movie may not be released at all.

A Steve Carell movie about North Korea has been scuttled, too.

[dooBdoo]

On 12/17/2014 Lotus~ said:

On 12/17/2014 Tyak said:

Total surrender. That is a shame.

Wow.....just heard the movie may not be released at all.

I know. It's troublesome. I can see why there's a need and desire to protect employees and theatergoers, but it also means North Korea found the way to censor activities in the USA.