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Enough with the Sony hack. Can we all calm down about cyberwar with North Korea? | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/19/sony-hack-cyberwar-north-korea-the-interview-seth-rogen-privacy"We will respond proportionally," Obama said on Friday. Why should the US be responding offensively at all?
The sanest thing anyone said in Washington this week was a reminder, on the Friday before Christmas, when Barack Obama took a break from oscillating between reassuring rationality and understated fear to make an accidental joke:
"It says something about North Korea that it decided to mount an all-out attack about a satirical movie … starring Seth Rogen.", quipped Obama.
It says something about North Korea that it decided to mount an all-out attack about a satirical movie … starring Seth Rogen.
It also says something about the over-the-top rhetoric of United States cybersecurity paranoia that it took the President of the United States to remind us to take a deep breath and exhale, even if Sony abruptly scrapped its poorly reviewed Hollywood blockbuster after nebulous threats from alleged North Korean hackers.
Unfortunately, acting rational seems out of the question at this point. In between making a lot of sense about Sony’s cowardly “mistake” to pull a film based on a childish, unsubstantiated threat, Obama indicated the US planned to respond in some as-yet-unknown way, which sounds a lot like a cyberattack of our own."
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American paranoia led by the mass media is so predictable someone might think of taking advantage of it. First it was ISIS to sow fear using the media and now these hackers....Obama is right and he is wrong.
It was not Sony doing the wrong thing, it was Regal Entertainment Group and it's reclusive majority right wing fundamentalist owner seeking to sell the failing chain. The media has not clued into that despite the CEL of Sony explicitly saying they do not control a movie release, the major theatre chains do.
How about some of the right wing media offer to show the movie refused to be shown by the fundie who owns Regal, he is one of their own, after all?