U.S. Links North Korea to Sony Hacking
 

It seems they have found a "smoking gun":

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/wo...king.html?_r=0

In a side story, Dick Cheney is claiming the discovery was made thanks to 'enhanced' interrogations at Gitmo and GW Bush is calling for a reinvasion of Iraq... :D


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Stop smoking that stuff.:O:

If that evidence shows to be solid. the proper thing to do would be to show the film then - and make it crystal clear to Pyongyang that any hostile Northkorean action, attack or terror strike would inevitably lead to an immediate full scale military retaliation against NK that the regime would not survive.

To allow a precedent being created to self-censor media because a lunatic teror regime threatens hostilities if the media would not be censored, is unacceptable. It would mean that a whole nation allows to get taken hostage by some insane scumbag on the other side of the world. Is that the attitude America wants to get associated with? I do not want to believe that.

Good point on the self-censorship. Another film has apparently bitten the dust:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6344520.html

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Are you kidding? That's totally how America is now.

At least we have gay marriage.

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If it is true that release of the film has been cancelled I think it's tragic that a totalitarian regime like North Korea can use cyber terrorism to censor the free expression of Western movie makers. It brings to mind the bullying of Salman Rushdie after publication of The Satanic Verses. But although he had to go into hiding, at least the book was published and available. It makes you wonder what gets pulled next by cyber-threat... an unflattering quarterly report? A documentary? An expose?

We should have the freedom to laugh at Kim Jong-un and his ilk on the silver screen. This tradition stretches back to Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Or the Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons in the 1940s that lampooned Tojo, Hitler and Mussolini. Those cartoons may not have been politically correct, but those guys hardily deserved PC. Someone stated that the one thing dictators can not abide is being lampooned. Very true and all the more reason why the film should be released. :-?

What interests me is that the reports I hear say that the NK's "ordered" the hack rather than conducted it themselves. Ordered the attack from who I wonder?

Dare I say it? Nuke'em all! :D

No man... you lot have it wrong..
NK is the 51st state of the USA and Kim is a puppet put there to create trouble and distract you from other things... like turning the US into an military state so that 'richard-head' cheney and his cronies.. bush.. et al, can take over the world.... tomorrow.
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I think they ordered a Chinese. :yep:

It does make you wonder what the government of Kazakhstan could do with a little effort to Sasha Baron Cohen if he ever decided to reprise the character of Borat.

Kazakhstan greatest hackers in the world. All other countries hack like little girls. :O:

http://resources3.news.com.au/images...ed-5812352.jpg

@Oberon: Surely it was a chinese hacker they paid, probably ate up NK's gross national product for the next 20 years. :yep:

I have always wondered though, how anyone could misunderstand the "Team America" film as being "patriotic". Especially after the veteran explains his patriotic view of the world to "Matt Damon" in the pub, and the resulting vomiting scene.

Or pass it.:D

Whilst I don't agree with the film being pulled I think foremost in theatre companies minds will have been the possibility of any nut job or terrorist organisation carrying out the dirty deed/atrocity in the name of whatever anywhere in the world.