[liberationtech] confused by the Sony hack

[Al Billings]

> On Dec 20, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Erich M. <erich at moechel.com> wrote:
> 
> >> 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
> >
> > you take a pretty evidence-free position on attribution here that
> > seems completely unwarranted.
> 
> Why? I did not attribute it to any organisation or nation state in
> particular. This is impossible at this stage and I _do not believe_
> much in the North Korean connection either.
> This was an attack of a pretty uncommon type, clearly intended to
> disrupt Sony's business as long as possible and eventuelly destroy the
> company thereafter

So, you claim it was a nation-state and politically motivated. When Joseph points out that there isn’t clear evidence to support your statements, you back-pedal.

How do you *know* that it was “clearly” a “politically motivated attack by a nation state”?

Al