Posted on 12/15/2014 9:24:16 AM PST by C19fan
THREE weeks ago Sony Pictures Entertainment was the victim of a massive cyberattack by an outlaw group calling itself the Guardians of Peace. They breached Sony’s security and stole tens of thousands of internal documents and emails.
Then they left a threat. The Guardians said they were going to make these private documents public if the studio went ahead with its planned release of “The Interview,” a comedy with Seth Rogen and James Franco in which the two are tasked by the Central Intelligence Agency to whack the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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Typical lefties.
This isn’t supposed to happen to us.
Of course they should. There's a whole branch of media supposedly "getting the dirt" on everyone and everything.
How about this.
Assume every email or text you send could become public one day and communicate accordingly. Simple.
Most professionals know this. Anyone near a lawsuit knows this. Apparently, this crowd is more concerned about being hip and joking around in emails that they never considered they would become public. Wrong assumption. Unfortunately, could become a career ruining assumption.
With respect to the business records; obviously Sony’s IT Dept. didn’t have a strong enough firewall / company protocols in place. Business record disclosures are truly egregious. Not much sympathy for dumb emails, however.
While no one should disseminate this information, just a touch of hypocrisy from this group that lives in gossip (see, TMZ’s success, for example).
” Is Sorkin so self-centered he is unaware what a hypocrite this piece makes him look? “
Absolutely.
This is the policy my company had. Pretend that any email you write you will have to explain to a judge...or a lawyer deposing you. I really can’t believe that these senior execs were so careless that they wrote some of this stuff.
People were first paranoid about copying machines..then we got email and it was copying machines on steroids with a memory.
I recall Sorkin being equally exercised when that slimeball hacked Palin’s emails several years ago...oh, wait...
Suppose someone hacked into the EIB Network emails and published all of Rush Limbaugh’s messages.
What would the NY Times say?
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