Thought Regarding North Korea and Cyberwarfare

[jordan179]

If we do nothing serious to retaliate against this unprovoked aggression by North Korea, other countries and terrorist organizations will be lining up to take their own shots.  We have an immensely rich and influential movie and video industry, and why shouldn't other Powers censor it, if we do nothing to defend it

Comments

[shadowfox24]

I'm still not entirely sure this is the Norks as it really seems like something that the /b/tards aka Anon would do. After all how many times have they targeted Sony before? The "hacked by GOP" hashtag is even more their speed.

[jordan179]

Wrong, because the minimal State has three functions: military, police and judicial. This is "military" -- defense from foreign attack.

[banner]

The hackers were threatening physical attacks and mass murder. That puts it firmly in the government's purview.

[expanding_x_man]

I am in shock that the film industry actually closed this film down. At the very least, they could beef up security and show the film and so - stand tough in the face of these warnings. And the fact that this was North Korea -- an impotent paper tiger... it sounds like a joke!

What the hell is wrong with this country these days!

[jordan179]

Obama is providing zero leadership in the face of a foreign attack,that's what is wrong with the country these days.

[superversive]

It goes deeper. The country elected him. Twice.

One half of American society has a great and terrible wish to die.

[jordan179]

And what's worse, we did so after Benghazi 2012.

[belvarius]

Just an amusing side note, but this comic by Jolly Jack has been getting a lot of views these past few days.

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Little-Man-Syndrome-350464435

If I remember correctly before this whole movie mess started it had a little over 100,000 views and now it's nearly 3x that amount. Keep it mind he put this up about two years ago. Guess a whole lot of people were really interested in finding material poking fun at the little dictator!

[jordan179]

On the other hand, I don't know that the planned movies about North Korea which were suspended over this have been green-lighted again. And North Korea has paid no real price for its actions, and Obama has indicated by his "won't go to war" statement that it won't.

[belvarius]

Had not heard about other planned movies about N. Korea. Do you know how many and what kind of films these were to be?

Yes N. Korea should be punished for what they've done. At the very least they should pay Sony Pictures some form of restitution for the harm they've done to the company and the lives of those who work for them. I think the best we can hope for though is that whoever replaces Obama in 2016 shows enough spine on foreign policy that the Norks won't dare try this again, or at least be A LOT more careful about covering their tracks.

[jordan179]

Pyongyang,for one, I've hear was canceled.

Here's the thing. There are life-and-death systems vulnerable to computer hacking. I don't want to give anyone any ideas, so I'm not going to make a list, but given a military-grade hacking team, it wouldn't be too hard for the Norks to reach out and murder people in America. Specific people, even.

So we need to take this sort of attack seriously, and respond to it just as if were carried out by a missile strike or assassination team.