Monday, December 22, 2014

Sony Hack/The Interview Release Update

Sony has caved to more of the hackers demands. TMZ reports that Sony immediately wiped all traces of The Interview from its social media upon receiving a new threat on Friday morning. Additionally, the hackers released a statement on Saturday afternoon:
"The result of investigation by FBI is so excellent that you might have seen what we were doing with your own eyes. We congratulate you success. FBI is the BEST in the world." The message was linked to a YouTube video featuring dancing happy faces, titled "you are an idiot."

And after initially stating that they were shelving The Interview permanently, Sony is now saying that the movie will be released after all, Us Weekly reports. Still no word on a new release date or mode of distribution. (Note to Sony: I hear that iTunes is a place where people rent and buy movies when theatres won't play them. Just saying)

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  1. Ok, I'm not buying that the Norks did this. That message is not written by somebody whose first language is not English.

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  2. I still say all this is part of a publicity stunt. See? They created so much talk about it, when it was relatively unknown and stupid before the hack, then made it known they won't release it, adding to the controversy, and now, after the hype has reached its max, they're suddenly gonna release it after all. Well played Sony.

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    1. If they actually got the government involved, there would be huge consequences for wasting the FBI's time. They could get into serious trouble. But maybe it is a publicity stunt that spun way out of control and they're trying to fix it without getting into trouble.

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  3. I saw a news story over the weekend that reports all Sony execs except one said the movie was terrible. One exec said it was "desperately unfunny". So there's that.

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  4. I think Obama is making them release it because he wasn't happy that Sony caved.

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  5. I think its a stunt that spun out of control too. OR an inside job at Sony. The North Koreans would be more interested in nuclear secrets than a tragically bad film.

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  6. Can you imagine if Sony people get arrested when this is all said and done. That would be amazing.

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    1. They'll make some underling fall on his sword or blame it all on someone who was fired. The higher-ups won't get any punishment.

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  7. End of year round up: "2014: Sony Fail"

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  8. Oh I have to find this article I meant to post a quote from it. Some cyber experts were saying these hackers are not sophisticated at all they were using the same old tricks hackers have been using for the last 15 years he said fifteen year olds could write better code and Sony just had to do some very basic things and this could have been prevented and he couldn't understand why none of that seemed in place. Guess the IT department was not getting much attention. They are now I guess.

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