Many theaters pull The Interview due to hacker threats

[luv2liv]

the terrorists have won. again.
dont be surprised if they make demands in the future....

 

[Howard]

What the hell?

 

[bearxor]

I'm still trying to process this information.

Like... I know it's happening... But I just can't quite wrap my head around the reality of it.

 

[BeeBoop]

Seems like there's a trend with horrible network security over at Sony. Wasn't the PS3 network hacked?

 

[NFS4]

Just came over the AP wire that FBI has connected the Sony hack to NK

Shit just got real

 

[GrantMeThePower]

Just release it digitally now. They'll make bung loads of dollars with all this publicity.

 

[BeeBoop]

Just release it digitally now. They'll make bung loads of dollars with all this publicity.

I just read an article that Sony is planning VOD for the movie on release date. Supposedly, Sony has been wanting to test a way to do VOD for their releases and this is their chance to go around traditional routes.

 

[KeithTalent]

So weird. Can't buy this kind of publicity though.

KT

 

[AznAnarchy99]

So weird. Can't buy this kind of publicity though.

KT

Yup. Front page on CNN over Cuba at the moment.

 

[Brainonska511]

the terrorists have won. again.
dont be surprised if they make demands in the future....

Maybe after the xth big hack, some of these companies will start taking network security a lot more seriously.

 

[Artorias]

America should have taken care of this mess of a country when they had the chance, 50 years later and this country would be thriving like South Korea. To bad for all those NK people.

 

[andylawcc]

https://www.facebook.com/AlamoDraft...3/762655710496099/?type=1&fref=nf&pnref=story

 

[Wreckem]

..

 

[tential]

So, job openings in Sony's IT department?

 

[alkemyst]

I wanted to see this. Apparently, James Franco is easily swayed by free puppies and pussy.

 

[Daedalus685]

wait wait wait. Hackers prevented another Seth Rogen film from being released and we are upset?

I'm afraid I don't understand. Could someone explain how this is bad using paint and smaller words maybe?

 

[mmntech]

Just release it digitally now. They'll make bung loads of dollars with all this publicity.

Streisand Effect.
I doubt Sony's just going to eat the millions it made to produce this movie because of vague threats. Especially coming from the nation state equivalent of the short bus.

Guess we'd better pull Team America too because it called Lil' Kim's dad an asshole.

 

[MongGrel]

I thought one of the local DJ suggestion down here of play the thing live on the corporate stations on Christmas and make it an Anti Terrorism fund drive more or less.

Was pretty amusing at least the way he played it up.

 

[sdifox]

America should have taken care of this mess of a country when they had the chance, 50 years later and this country would be thriving like South Korea. To bad for all those NK people.

blame Mao

 

[rsbennett00]

Between this and Purch, it feels like the end of the world.

 

[Regs]

What happened to the 'War on Terrorism'? With all the technological equipment, we can't stop a bunch of teenagers operating out of their parents basement making threats? Pretty sad. What happens when these terrorists ask for billions of dollars next? Or perhaps they already have?

Sony execs "goons" literally left logins in a file called "password". These are people that make more than your yearly salary in one day of work.

 

[zerocool84]

Sony execs "goons" literally left logins in a file called "password". These are people that make more than your yearly salary in one day of work.

That's not the execs, it's on the IT, I'm sure the hire ups don't even know what IT means.

 

[rsbennett00]

That's not the execs, it's on the IT, I'm sure the hire ups don't even know what IT means.

It means Internet Tycoon, duh.

 

[who?]

"Team America World Police" was about Kim Jong Il. "The Interview" is about Kim Jong Un.

 

[SlickSnake]

Soo... this mysterious group of shadowy hackers completely ignored all the Sony scandals about privacy concerns that have been repeatedly exposed over the years, and instead it took a really stupid comedy movie based on a political hot potato to finally get them to hack at Sony? Which is apparently why everyone thinks it's probably North Korea who did this. Because the timing of this hack is certainly pretty suspect. But nobody can rule out the fact that North Korea could have also paid Russian or Chinese hackers to do the job for them, because I just can't imagine any good hackers would actually live long enough in North Korea to learn how to hack in the first place.