Cybervandalism

There are a couple of things that are really stuck in my craw over this whole North Korea / Sony thing. First is that Sony pulled the film. Why? - because North Korea threatened to release information they obtained from Sonys electronic records - they've already released some pretty juicy stuff. (And by the way, that's a really good reminder - if you wouldn't say it to someone's face - don't put it in writing). Isn't that equal to negotiating with terrorists? They may not be terrorists in the historic sense of the word, but, this really has all the hallmarks of terrorism.
So now they have all of his information, and - news flash - because they've been successful in getting Sony to cater to their demands once, they're going to do it again. Once they are successful, they'll be back. And every time they make another, tougher, demand. Sony will feel that it's obligated to follow their demands because they don't want the information released. North Korea doesn't. Care about the movie, they care about power and people obeying their demands. This is not going to end soon - or end well.
The other thing that bothers me is that now Sony, and the theaters, and the White House are publicly fighting. There's quite an interesting version of he-said-she-said going on. North Korea is undoubtedly sitting back and laughing at how successful they have been - probably even better than they had hoped,

Sony needs to just tell them to go stick it in their ear, deal with the fallout once and for all, and move on. It's ridiculous and dangerous to allow them to have this much power. We all know that nothing online is private safe -- if you think it is, your kidding yourself.

As i was writing this I got a Twitter notification that Northa Korea is blaming the White a house for making The Interview. Seems to me to be further proof that they don't really care about the movie - they just want to stir things up.

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