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I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« on: December 17, 2014, 07:12:22 pm »
Because Sony decided to cancel its release this month

Kinda concerned this might set a precedent, but then if some shit did go down at a screening, people would be pissed at Sony for ignoring the warnings.

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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2014, 07:38:45 pm »
Ignoring the warnings that likely came from North Korea, the running joke of the brutal dictatorship world?  Honestly, I think Sony and the theatres are a bunch of pussies.  "Look, we found some of your data, now behave before we TOTALLY do another 9/11."  Typical internet tough guy bullshit from a country more well-known for counterfeiting US currency than for actually following up on any of its threats doing anything outside shoveling a continuous waterfall of cheese down Kim Jong-Un's cavernous gullet.
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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2014, 08:42:19 pm »
Ignoring the warnings that likely came from North Korea, the running joke of the brutal dictatorship world?  Honestly, I think Sony and the theatres are a bunch of pussies.

The theatres are a bunch of pussies. Sony is just reacting to the market.
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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2014, 08:50:35 pm »
I wonder what would've happened if his dad had tried this with Team America: World Police.

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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2014, 10:16:58 pm »
His dad didn't do anything because his dad wouldn't have given a shit.  This kid needs to be killed soon so that someone with brains can go back to doing what North Korea does best.

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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2014, 11:28:39 pm »
We need a wackier Kim in the dictatorship.
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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2014, 02:44:51 am »
As I already said elsewhere: Some of those cinemas first declared that they were going to show "TEAM AMERICA" instead but have now backed out of that as well...

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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2014, 09:40:19 am »
Guess which author has enough guts to show the movie?

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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2014, 04:05:46 pm »
I guess Sony gets a big capital loss tax write-off for caving.

So, somebody else needs to hack into Sony and offer to bit torrent the master file of The Interview...I at least want to watch it at home.

Or the streaming services like Netflix and Hulu and Amazon should pony up and buy the rights to stream it. In what paranoid, pussy-footing, tinfoil hat scenario could the PDRK possibly do anything at all about it then?
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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2014, 04:09:00 pm »
Or the streaming services like Netflix and Hulu and Amazon should pony up and buy the rights to stream it. In what paranoid, pussy-footing, tinfoil hat scenario could the PDRK possibly do anything at all about it then?

Quite a bit, perhaps:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/sony-made-a-mistake-axing-the-interview-obama-says-1.2879097

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The attack may have been a practice run for North Korea's elite cyberarmy in a long-term goal of being able to cripple telecoms and energy grids in rival nations, defectors from the isolated state said.

Non-conventional capabilities like cyberwarfare and nuclear technology are the weapons of choice for the impoverished North to match its main enemies, according to defectors.

Obsessed by fears that it will be overrun by South Korea and the United States, North Korea has been working for years on the ability to disrupt or destroy computer systems that control vital public services such as telecoms and energy utilities, according to one defector.

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"They have trained themselves by launching attacks related to electronic networks," said Jang Se-yul, a defector from North Korea who studied at the military college for computer sciences before escaping to the South six years ago, referring to the North's cyberwarfare unit.

For years, North Korea has been pouring resources into a sophisticated cyberwarfare cell called Bureau 121, run by the military's spy agency and staffed by some of the most talented computer experts in the country, he and other defectors have said.

Basically, North Korea can't do shit in conventional warfare, but attacking websites--such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon--is an area where they think they can compete. If they're serious, they could take down said streaming services, or potentially worse.
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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2014, 04:58:35 pm »
As impressive as their claims, and some evidence of their abilities may be, it's still utterly stupid to cave in to them like this. South Korea learned a hard lesson about internet to intranet isolation - still vulnerable to insider jobs, natch, but it's much better now. It's quite a bit harder to perform insider sabotage off of the Korean Peninsula. But, fluffing out our petticoats in fear of Bureau 121, the name of which Alex Jones might have coined, is exactly what they want. Fait accompli.

Okay, then using an abundance of caution, say The Interview goes straight to DVD with widest possible distribution among countless vendors. Now, PDRK has so many freaking targets to cyber attack the gesture becomes burdensome. Besides, hit enough corporations in the wallet hard enough...suddenly there's support for wiping them out militarily. And if instead they focus on hitting a single, or a couple, of valuable targets - again, perfect impetus to declare war. Which is so predictably shameful, in light of how long the civilized world has let PDRK get away with being a human rights nightmare for it's people.
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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2014, 03:10:46 am »
Honestly, it seemed like a stupid movie anyway, and I think may have been designed just to have been controversial.

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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2014, 12:13:40 pm »
As impressive as their claims, and some evidence of their abilities may be, it's still utterly stupid to cave in to them like this. South Korea learned a hard lesson about internet to intranet isolation - still vulnerable to insider jobs, natch, but it's much better now. It's quite a bit harder to perform insider sabotage off of the Korean Peninsula. But, fluffing out our petticoats in fear of Bureau 121, the name of which Alex Jones might have coined, is exactly what they want. Fait accompli.

Okay, then using an abundance of caution, say The Interview goes straight to DVD with widest possible distribution among countless vendors. Now, PDRK has so many freaking targets to cyber attack the gesture becomes burdensome. Besides, hit enough corporations in the wallet hard enough...suddenly there's support for wiping them out militarily. And if instead they focus on hitting a single, or a couple, of valuable targets - again, perfect impetus to declare war. Which is so predictably shameful, in light of how long the civilized world has let PDRK get away with being a human rights nightmare for it's people.

Or, Sony goes the childish route and uses all that CGI technology and talent they have access to and anonymously creates a photo-realistic video of dear leader fucking a sheep or whatever is the most culturally offensive critter and releases it to the appropriate places on the internet.

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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2014, 01:04:00 pm »
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Or, Sony goes the childish route and uses all that CGI technology and talent they have access to and anonymously creates a photo-realistic video of dear leader fucking a sheep or whatever is the most culturally offensive critter and releases it to the appropriate places on the internet.

Sounds just like an episode for Black Mirror- teehee! Plus, the interwebs can do that all on it's own - plenty of good FX artists out there.

I wonder what PDRK's physical internet connections are mostly based on - hacking onto communications satellites? Do they have some rinky-dink Sputnik-looking sats of their own? Block out/knock out those connections.

Oh, wait - they probably splice onto coaxial cable lines from across the DMZ, like when my neighbors used to climb up a telephone pole to steal cable TV.
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Re: I hope none of you wanted to go see The Interview
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2014, 01:20:45 pm »
Okay, then using an abundance of caution, say The Interview goes straight to DVD with widest possible distribution among countless vendors. Now, PDRK has so many freaking targets to cyber attack the gesture becomes burdensome. Besides, hit enough corporations in the wallet hard enough...suddenly there's support for wiping them out militarily. And if instead they focus on hitting a single, or a couple, of valuable targets - again, perfect impetus to declare war. Which is so predictably shameful, in light of how long the civilized world has let PDRK get away with being a human rights nightmare for it's people.

You know what's funny, Paulo Coelho has offered to buy the rights to the movie and, if he got 'em, he'd immediately put it up for free as a torrent.  Even IF the Great Joke of Southeast Asia has some kind of superb cybercrimes division, they won't be able to do shit once that thing gets out as a torrent.  Especially since people can now basically make their own Pirate Bay and we've been seeing some EXTREMELY impressive developments in the area of torrent anonymization and redundancy.
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