Posted on 12/17/2014 11:59:15 AM PST by C19fan
“•That N Korea could hack an American company this bad”
Just a nit, but wasn’t it Sony, a Japanese company, that was hacked? Or was it their US subsidiary?
Wouldn’t any physical attack on our infrastructure constitute an act of war? How is this cyber attack different?
That's exactly right. After the threats' publication, a chain would be insane to screen it. Any clear-thinking owner or shareholder or insurer would absolutely prohibit it, because having been forewarned and going ahead anyway, the liability would be enormous. It would bankrupt the chain. Foregoing screening isn't cowardly, it's prudent.
I liked taildragger's suggestion that Sony just send it straight to the web.
A thousand dead Americans means Kim will be spending the rest of his days in China, and the Republic of Korea will cover the entire peninsula. A cyber-attack is not going to be the casus belli that gets Uncle Sam's Misguided Children to rearrange the the furniture in central Pyongyang, given the cost in men and material.
If memory serves correct, Sony owns one or two of those theater chains. I wonder if it is a crime to falsely claim a terrorist state is hacking you? Seems like pretty convenient timing of all this hype just before any reviews come out. I bet the movie is a stinker.
Oh. That’s okay then. Continue.
Are you any good at basketball?
Looks like that will be a total loss.
Maybe not total.There's always HBO...DVDs...Bluerays.
Far more disturbing is the possibility of them hacking our electric grid....our banking system....our DoD (google Gary McKinnon).
so if these hackers are really from or employed by North Korea ...and let’s say you have an actual violent attack on a theater showing this movie by some North Korean agent...then that’s an act of war ....or would have been before we were stupid...now it would be movieplace violence....
Yes, I’d say that would be an act of war. Right now, we’re only at the level of international espionage.
I'd say to Kim the same thing I'd say to Vlad. Guys you've got two years to do whatever you want without ANY fear of retaliation from the US. Won't happen. Have a field day. Go for it.
However, digital projection as it currently stands still requires physical media to be located at the theatre—the movie companies know that Internet delivery is too fraught with security issues. That’s why new movies shown on digital projectors are sent to the theater on actual hard disc drives.
You mean there's no actual film on an actual projector anymore? I didn't know this! What is our world coming to?
But then, considering the prohibitive expense of movie tickets these days and that there are no theaters in my little town (though there used to be), I haven't seen a movie in a theater in over two decades and will probably never see another.
This not only shows weakness, but it will encourage others to make threats to get other movies pulled or just to spread disruption and make Americans feel vulnerable.
Terrorism works!
And in other news . . .
Dream on. America hasn't been allowed to kick anyone around since WWII. And with Obama in office? Such an attack would probably be met with an apology for offending them.
Wrong title. The grandfather (Kim Il Sung) was the Great Leader. The son (Kim Jong Il) was the Dear Leader. The grandson (Kim Jong Eun) is the Great Successor.
What the next dictator will be called I don't know, though I highly expect the word "great" will be in it somewhere. Although . . . maybe he'll be the "Dear Successor?"
Sony has announced that the movie will NOT be opening on December 25th..the movie has been canceled
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