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I won't enter into the politics of this, but despite the threats, The Interview being shown on Christmas Day.

I unfortunately can't make any of these venues, otherwise I would be attending one of these if I could (not that the film is actually going to be any good).

Personally I wonder about the whole thing being a spoof and just a publicity stunt to increase the viewing figures of what is going to be yet another Seth Rogen and mates "kick about" sold as a film (watch the extras to "This Is the End" where they all seem to being having a hilarious time, pity it didn't translate into the film).

I'll wait for it to come to streaming.
Hopefully that will be very soon as a result of the threats to theaters.
Sony may hope to make hay on streaming rentals.

Additional:

Experts Are Still Divided on Whether North Korea Is Behind Sony Attack.

I still think it's a publicity stunt!

I'm inclined to remove North Korea as a candidate simply because the US government is adamant North Korea did it. If anything, it's more likely China took action on behalf of North Korea.

That said, if I were wagering, my money would still be on a foreign company/organization sponsoring the hack or (don your aluminium helmets, ladies and gentlemens) the US government. You'll know it's the latter if we start hearing politicians/pundits/reporters/whores announcing "growing concerns over internet vulnerabilities," "protecting the security of US businesses and citizens," and/or "necessary steps to pre-empt electronic warfare."

Orwell had it right. It's the same game played ad nauseam.

Good call jgiffin the government did it to push internet is dangerous issues to pass new laws to control us more!

They're nihilists, mangs; they'll stop at nosing!!

I don't know about the movie but I know Sony got hacked again on Christmas. It shut down their online gaming service for play station for four days. I would say they really need to work on their security.

Quote from: The_Sleevez on December 28, 2014, 09:41:48 PM
I don't know about the movie but I know Sony got hacked again on Christmas. It shut down their online gaming service for play station for four days. I would say they really need to work on their security.

It wasn't just Sony. Xbox one , amazon, steam and others all got hacked.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30602609
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/26/tech/playstation-xbox-problems/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2888339/Hackers-release-cache-13-000-passwords-credit-cards-Playstation-Xbox-Amazon-users.html

I got my kids a new PS4 for Christmas and we couldn't play some of the games till yesterday.
The problems with the gaming services was not sophisticated. It was just a brute force Denial of Service attack. That amounts to just pounding the crap out of the servers with requests. It's first year computer science level of sophistication.
Sadly there isn't a lot that can be done about it. You either expose the servers or not. Once they are available they are open to scripted DOS attacks. All you can do is build in remedial measures that notice that a certain ip is doing it and block that IP. But that can be fraught with peril because it is often impossible to differentiate a legitimate request from a malicious one. The only metric is the frequency.
In this instance it probably was done using zombies (hijacked user computers).
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS).
That has a higher level of sophistication and makes it very difficult to defend against.

It's basically somebody taking a giant crap in the pool and ruining everybody's day.
Freaking Nihilists.

Quote from: BikerDude on December 29, 2014, 08:26:16 AM

Quote from: The_Sleevez on December 28, 2014, 09:41:48 PM
I don't know about the movie but I know Sony got hacked again on Christmas. It shut down their online gaming service for play station for four days. I would say they really need to work on their security.

It wasn't just Sony. Xbox one , amazon, steam and others all got hacked.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30602609
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/26/tech/playstation-xbox-problems/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2888339/Hackers-release-cache-13-000-passwords-credit-cards-Playstation-Xbox-Amazon-users.html

I got my kids a new PS4 for Christmas and we couldn't play some of the games till yesterday.
The problems with the gaming services was not sophisticated. It was just a brute force Denial of Service attack. That amounts to just pounding the crap out of the servers with requests. It's first year computer science level of sophistication.
Sadly there isn't a lot that can be done about it. You either expose the servers or not. Once they are available they are open to scripted DOS attacks. All you can do is build in remedial measures that notice that a certain ip is doing it and block that IP. But that can be fraught with peril because it is often impossible to differentiate a legitimate request from a malicious one. The only metric is the frequency.
In this instance it probably was done using zombies (hijacked user computers).
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS).
That has a higher level of sophistication and makes it very difficult to defend against.

It's basically somebody taking a giant crap in the pool and ruining everybody's day.
Freaking Nihilists.

Nothing ever changes.

I saw the movie. It was okay. About what you'd expect from a Rogen-Franco production without all this hoopla.Worth a $5 rental but not a $10 ticket and $15 popcorn/soda combo at the theater.

The hacking story just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. Now we have a 3rd party hacking group confirming a pissed off ex-Sony employee was behind it but the FBI (anyone else notice that's "fibby" phonetically?) keeps doubling-down on North Korea. I get why the FBI/administration wants it to be North Korea but why risk the credibility hit if they don't actually know? I mean, it's the internet - if we've learned anything it's that the internet doesn't forget. Maybe they've concluded their credibility is pretty much shit, anyway.