Sunday, December 21, 2014

Phoney Sony

I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that all the American networks insist on saying that Sony is an American Corporation. What?
... This very dumb movie which was going to bomb was authored by Canadian, stars the same Canadian, and was funded and produced by a Japanese company. But Americans insist that it is an infringement of American free speech?
... Companies get hacked all the time. Of course, everyone sort of fail to understand that all those files that Sony said got wiped out, should've been backed up. Its the hassle of re-establishing That is the usual procedure. Generally speaking ever since the last century, if you own a network there are things one should anticipate. First back up all essential programs and files. Second assume you are going to be attacked tomorrow.
... So I figure that Sony, a Japanese company, saw that this movie was going to bomb. The dumbass Koreans decided to waste a powerful weapon on something that was nothing more than an ego problem. Sony must have fallen over backwards. They promoted the idea that they were hacked recognizing that this little event literally quadrupled the projected revenue on a bad movie. Plus, yes plus the movie is so bad, that now when its released criticism of it will be totally blunted. Critics will call it crap only at their professional peril.
... The Americans won this fight without doing anything. People should understand what hackers have understood for a long time, while cyber torpedoes are powerful weapons, they are only truly effective once. Personally, I can't believe it. Why would the North Koreans do this action simply based on a dictator's psychopathic narcissism.
... The Americans now know the pattern, and structure of attack. The useless movie is only a background to a totally stupid North Korean action. A counter will be made. The most valuable counter is the simple knowledge of when, where, and how such an attack is made. That is the nature of the internet.
... Chinese and Koreans have always infiltrated networks. During a project in 1999, the late Kenn Hyslop was updating the system at the Marathon Public Library, in Marathon, Ontario. During that involved conversion of a one program to something new and had to convert a data form into another. It turned out to be a very complex project, when Hyslop dug in he pointed out that not only he found little subroutines, known as worms, sourced back to both North Korea and China. Nowhere else.
... Protections were inserted to block the effort. Another simple counter measure was undertaken. That was to turn off the computers every night. Before they had been left on. The cyber attackers, employed by nations, including the United States, want to work through computer networks that are on all the time. So this is all puff and no real substance to salvage any money loss from a very tepid movie.

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