@Tryptameanie 579378 wrote:
If we go by the mental statement released by the hackers I’d say they’re North Korean lol.
Sony Pictures hackers make terrorist threat against opening of ?The Interview? | Ars Technica
definitely Asian (its a bit like an Engrish version of the challenge warning flyer in red Chinese characters that gets posted on the door of someones house in kung fu films before a big fight starts) but cinémas and night time venues have always been threatened by those who disagree with them; often the threats are not empty either. My Fillipino colleagues said there are loads of “Korean” uni students in big posh flats in their country but most of their assigments are hacking of some sort..
in the 80s I read an excellent book called “Going to Blazes” about the work of the London Fire Brigade and although tame by todays standards; they had some very graphic pictures of what happens when a small nightclub/cinéma full of people (but with defective/sealed fire exts) is deliberately set on fire by a disgruntled neighbour. You couldn’t even make out the facial features of the charred bodies; they were that well done.
I have a lot of respect for Bruce (who I also read about from back in the day) and agree with him 100% with regard to private emails; but I’ve had to force open several email boxes of former (and current) employees at work (with permission and authorisation); to prevent security breaches. I always warn people at work that not all emails can be sent in encrypt due to technical limitations of many devices; and the sender and receipient will always be in clear otherwise the message cannot be routed; and that they should never put anything in a work email they would not want their boss to see or to end up in Court or the Press.
Also telephone calls are routinely recorded and monitored (mostly for audio quality to identify bad reception spots with DECT phones or overloading/clipping/distortion – as my work has to dial nines fairly often for ambos this is again authorised). if folk want “privacy” they should either use their own personal device on a mobile network they pay for or do it at home (I do give them impartial advice about privacy/encyrption and its pros and cons).
Before this job I worked in Government Service and until the economic depression they took infosec fairly seriously; albeit some of them were stuck in the WW II / Cold War mindsets- not so much the tech side as thats still valid but they couldn’t work quickly enough to authorise things and that is how a lot of security breaches occur. As for Sony; their management are a bunch of complete muppets; its as well the Pentagon or those running power station etc aren’t quite as sketchy or whole swathes of the USA would be in ashes (and not even through “terrorism”; just their own local stupidity).
