[liberationtech] confused by the Sony hack

[Don Marti]

This might just be the provocation that finally pushes
commons-based peer production over the line of being
able to make a feature film.

  "Lulz" (2015) * * 1/2. A brilliant North Korean
  computer scientist, forced to infiltrate the
  USA to save her husband and child, teams up
  with a California feminist hacker to take down a
  merciless corporation. Inspired by a true story.
  (R for language, violence) (CC-BY) 

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> On 12/18/14, 5:47 PM, Erich M. wrote:
> > On 2014-12-18 19:11, Noah Shachtman wrote:
> >> One the one hand, I see US officials leaking word that the North
> >>  Koreans were involved...
> > 
> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/asia/us-links-north-korea-to-sony-hacking.html
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> >>  On the other, I see evidence that points to a hacktivist-type 
> >> outfit...
> > 
> >> http://www.wired.com/2014/12/evidence-of-north-korea-hack-is-thin/
> >
> >>  Any ideas on which narrative (or combination thereof) is right?
> > 
> > Both miss IMHO the point. This was clearly a politically motivated 
> > attack by a nation state intended to create the severest immediate 
> > impact possible on Sony. Hitting the technical, informational and
> > soon
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> you take a pretty evidence-free position on attribution here that
> seems completely unwarranted.
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