Gotta be ISIS, right?
"Sony hackers reference 9/11 in new threats against theaters" by Bernard Condon, Associated Press December 17, 2014
NEW YORK — Hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace made ominous threats Tuesday against movie theaters showing Sony Pictures’ film ‘‘The Interview’’ that referred to the terrorist attacks of Sept.11, 2001. The group also released a trove of data files, including about 8,000 e-mails from the inbox of Sony Entertainment chief executive Michael Lynton.
The data dump was what the hackers called the beginning of a ‘‘Christmas gift.’’ But GOP, as the group is known, included a message warning that people should stay away from places where ‘‘The Interview’’ will be shown, including an upcoming premiere. Invoking 9/11, it urged people to leave their homes if located near theaters showing the film.
And here I was going to see the new Hobbit movie next week. Was going to go out to dinner and everything.
Well, forget that.
The Department of Homeland Security said there was ‘‘no credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters’’ but noted it was still analyzing the GOP messages. The warning did prompt law enforcement in New York and Los Angeles to address measures to ramp up security.
Pfffffffft!
‘‘The Interview’’ is a comedy in which Seth Rogen and James Franco star as television journalists involved in a CIA plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Its New York premiere is scheduled for Thursday at Manhattan’s Landmark Sunshine and is expected to hit theaters nationwide on Christmas Day. It premiered in Los Angeles last week.
I wasn't going to go see that piece of crap anyway.
Rogen and Franco pulled out of all media appearances Tuesday, canceling a Buzzfeed Q&A and Rogen’s planned guest spot Thursday on ‘‘Late Night With Seth Meyers.’’
That's where the Globe's web version cut the print short.
After avoiding the media last week as the hacking scandal unfolded, the two stars had appeared Monday on ‘‘Good Morning America’’ and Rogen guested on ‘‘The Colbert Report.’’
A representative for Rogen said he had no comment. A spokeswoman for Franco didn’t immediately respond to queries Tuesday.
These guys are now looking like willing participants in this psyop.
Patrick Corcoran, spokesman for the National Association of Theater Owners, wouldn’t comment on the threats.
In a statement, the FBI said it is aware of the threats and ‘‘continues to work collaboratively with our partners to investigate this matter.’’
Yeah, now I feel safer.
It declined to comment on whether North Korea or another country was behind the attack. Speculation about a North Korean link to the Sony hacking has centered on that country’s angry denunciation of the film. Over the summer, North Korea warned that the film’s release would be an ‘‘act of war that we will never tolerate.’’ It said the U.S. will face ‘‘merciless’’ retaliation.
I'm wondering how the U.S., would react to a movie making fun of Obama's assassination.
In their warning Tuesday, the hackers suggested Sony employees make contact via several disposable email addresses ending in yopmail.com. Frenchman Frederic Leroy, who started up the yopmail site in 2004, was surprised to learn the Sony hackers were using yopmail addresses. He said there was no way he could identify the users.
‘‘I cannot see the identities of people using the address ... there is no name, no first name,’’ he said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. He said yopmail is used around the world but there are ‘‘hundreds and hundreds’’ of other disposable email sites.
Hmmmm!
Leroy, who lives in Barr, outside Strasbourg in eastern France, said he heard about the Sony hackers yesterday on the radio but knows nothing more. He said he has not been contacted by any authorities.
Since Sony Pictures was hacked by GOP late last month in one of the largest data breaches ever against an American company, everything from financial figures to salacious emails between top Sony executives have been dumped online.
Separately Tuesday, two former employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment sued the Culver City, California company for not preventing hackers from stealing nearly 50,000 social security numbers, salary details and other personal information from current and former workers. The federal suit alleges that emails and other information leaked by the hackers show that Sony’s information-technology department and its top lawyer believed its security system was vulnerable to attack, but that company did not act on those warnings.
Yeah, turns out the government and Sony have known about this for over a year.
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Turns out they fowled the whole thing up.
"North Korea denies hacking Sony Pictures, but gives the perpetrators an attaboy
North Korea on Sunday denied responsibility for hacking the computers of Sony Pictures but appeared to relish the cyberattack that crippled the computer systems of the Hollywood company, which is set to release a comedy involving an assassination attempt of its leader, Kim Jong Un. Sony Pictures is producing “a film abetting a terrorist act while hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership,” a spokesman of the National Defense Commission, Kim’s top governing agency in Pyongyang, was quoted as saying by the North’s Korean Central News Agency. The spokesman said North Korea did not know why Sony was targeted, but he speculated that the attack “might be a righteous deed of the supporters and sympathizers with” North Korea. A hacking attack last month shut down the computer systems of Sony Pictures and exposed a trove of internal data, including salary figures. North Korea has since emerged as a possible suspect because it has been criticizing Sony Pictures for producing “The Interview,” a comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco that involves a plot to assassinate Kim. North Korea saw no humor there."
Nor do I.
Also see: Seth Rogen talks politics at Harvard
I'm tired of Jewish toilet humor, too.
So who else is staring in the pos?
"Sony studio head, producer apologize for remarks about Jolie, Obama" by Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press December 12, 2014
LOS ANGELES — Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin apologized Thursday for calling Angelina Jolie a ‘‘spoiled brat’’ and making racially offensive jokes about President Obama’s presumed taste in movies.
Rudin, huh?
Why are supremacist Jews the most racist of all?
The comments were made in a series of leaked e-mail exchanges between Rudin and Sony Pictures Entertainment cochairwoman Amy Pascal, who also apologized Thursday. It was yet another embarrassment in the ongoing Sony hacking scandal, in which highly sensitive material is being leaked almost daily.
This latest brouhaha erupted when hacked e-mail exchanges obtained by the website Gawker gave the public a juicy, unfiltered glimpse into the blunt, often crude way Hollywood does business. When juxtaposed with the saccharine graciousness of Hollywood’s awards season, the e-mails reveal a much darker and, to some, surprising side of the industry....
It's not surprising to me. Hollywood's business is illusion, isn't it?
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And the Rev. Al Sharpton is to get involved, huh?
See: Quote of the day: Al Sharpton
And more Jewish, too, right Al?
Now the problem is you people in the media posting the dirty laundry of Sony!
"Sony Pictures to media: Stop publishing our hacked data!
Sony Pictures Entertainment warned media outlets Sunday against using the mountains of corporate data revealed by hackers who attacked the studio’s computer systems. In a sharply worded letter sent to news organizations, David Boies, a lawyer for Sony, characterized the documents posted online as “stolen information” and demanded that they be avoided, and destroyed if they had already been downloaded or otherwise acquired. The pushback came after a flood of damaging reports about salaries, business negotiations, employee health records, and e-mail conversations about movie stars and filmmakers. One of the most volatile and embarrassing e-mail exchanges featured racially insensitive banter about President Obama’s supposed preference for black-themed movies and prompted public apologies by Amy Pascal, the Sony Pictures cochairwoman, and by Scott Rudin, a prominent producer. Over the weekend, the hackers, who have pressed Sony to withdraw its comic film “The Interview,” were reported to be planning further data dumps by Christmas Day, when the film is scheduled for release. Until now, the data has provided a feast for traffic-hungry websites like Defamer, owned by Gawker Media, and mainstream news organizations like Bloomberg News, which last week posted a story — without citing names — revealing details of employee medical records that were made public by the hackers."
Also see: Hacking reveals gender pay gap at Sony
Oh, they are SEXIST, too!
By the way, the group calling itself #GOP, for Guardians of Peace is now nearly discredited.
Related: VIRTUAL
9-11: Will the US & Israel Hack The US Banking System Computers and
Falsely Blame It On Iran (or Syria or Russia or China)?
"Reposted in light of the claim that the SONY Hackers are planning to bomb movie theaters now....
And where is the mighty NSA in all this? We have this huge spy system that cost billions of dollars, has violated the Fourth Amendment, which said spying along with torture has destroyed the reputation of the United States around the world, and for the last year that SONY knew they had an intrusion have been unable to find these hackers! Here we are being told there is an actual threat of terror; the very reason we were told we had to accept the NSA peeking at our wives and daughters through our webcams, and the NSA has come up short. Or maybe the NSA are the hackers, so they can say, "See? You NEED us!" after some patsy gets framed for the hack down the road! --whatreallyhappened
Aw, nuts, what's with the logic?
And speaking of nuts:
"American who crossed into North Korea denounces the US" by Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times December 15, 2014
SEOUL — A US citizen who said he had illegally entered North Korea held a news conference in Pyongyang on Sunday during which he offered a lengthy criticism of the United States’ policies and human rights conditions and said that he would seek asylum in Venezuela.
At first look it sounds good.
The man identified himself as Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, from El Paso and said that he had entered North Korea by crossing the Yalu River from China.
Martinez entered North Korea in November, two days after the US director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., arrived in Pyongyang to seek release of two Americans, Matthew Todd Miller and Kenneth Bae.
See: Clapping For North Korea
Martinez said he had tried in vain to swim across the Han River into North Korea from South Korea. In September the South Korean military said it had arrested an American who was trying to swim into the North, but did not identify him. At the time, South Korean media reported that the man had told investigators that he intended to meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
Globe must have walked out on the movie.
Mr. Martinez’s mother told CNN that her son was sent back to the United States from South Korea and was placed in a psychiatric hospital. She said her son had bipolar disorder.
Oh, no. This is a HUGE PSYOP!
“He is very smart and he got the court to let him out, and instead of coming home to us, he bought a ticket and left for China,” his mother, Patricia Eugenia Martinez, told CNN.
Yeah, he talked a court into letting him out, huh?
This ABSOLUTELY REEKS of PSYOP PROPAGANDA!
In a statement released Sunday, the State Department’s deputy spokeswoman, Marie Harf, said: “We are aware of reports that a U.S. citizen crossed into North Korea, and we stand ready to provide all consular assistance. The welfare and safety of U.S. citizens abroad is one of our top priorities.”
Pffffft!
Ms. Harf did not offer any information about Mr. Martinez’s case, citing “privacy considerations,” but she repeated the State Department’s recommendation against all travel by American citizens to North Korea.
During the Pyongyang news conference, Mr. Martinez said he apologized for illegally entering North Korea “in such a foolish way.” But he said he was “extremely grateful for having been pardoned,” indicating that he was not facing criminal charges.
He said he took “a risky journey” to North Korea so he could pass along “some very valuable and disturbing information.”
Like what?
He spoke about his country’s “police brutality,” reports of abuse at the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the decision not to indict “lawbreaking policemen” in Ferguson, Mo. He also warned of “extremely dangerous and subversive technologies” related to U.F.O.s.
And THERE YOU GO!
Never mind the valuable and disturbing information the Koreans could find out for themselves by simply looking at a propaganda pre$$ website; this guy is going to discredit those other criticism by seeing UFOs!
Honestly, I'm surprised the Koreans were suckered into this thing.
Mr. Martinez’s news conference came as North Korea was protesting an American-supported move at the United Nations to try to refer its top leaders to an international criminal court for human rights violations."
The Senate torture report should put the kibosh that or any other criticism from the U.S. when it comes to human rights. Talk about hypocrisy!
As for the concerns regarding Korea, I quit!
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Smells like a psyop spook meant to discredit, and he wouldn't be in my paper were the case otherwise!
That's it for today, readers, sorry.
I'd go see a movie tonight, but you know....
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
"US concludes North Korea ‘centrally involved’ in Sony computer attacks" by David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth, New York Times December 18, 2014
Meaning they had nothing to do with it then.
WASHINGTON — US intelligence officials have concluded that the North Korean government was “centrally involved” in the recent attacks on Sony Pictures’ computers, a determination reached just as Sony on Wednesday canceled its release of the comedy “The Interview,” which is based on a plot to assassinate Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader.
That could set a precedent, a new kind of war, if you will (and what genius idiot came up with this idea and why wasn't the idea shot down?).
Senior administration officials, who would not speak on record about intelligence findings, said the White House was debating whether to publicly accuse North Korea of what amounts to cyberterrorism. Sony’s decision to cancel release of the film amounted to a capitulation to threats sent by hackers this week that they would launch attacks, perhaps on theaters, if the movie was released.
They also told us Iraq had WMDs.
Look, after 13 years of having U.S. government horse shit shoveled my way, I'm not believing a goddamn thing this government says. Case closed.
At least I can go see the Hobbit now.
Officials said it was not clear how the White House would respond to North Korea.
I expect the missiles and bombs to be flying soon.
Some within the Obama administration argue the government of Kim must be directly confronted but that raises the question of what consequences the administration would threaten — or how much of its evidence it could make public without revealing details of how the United States was able to penetrate North Korean computer networks to trace the source.
That's because the U.S., via the NSA, phishing around with a masque on, are responsible for most of the hack..... awwww, never mind.
Others argue that a confrontation with the North over the threats to Sony and moviegoers might result in escalation and give North Korea the kind of confrontation it often covets.
Yeah, right, North Korea is trying to start a war.
Sorry, NYT, but that's AmeriKa's shtick.
Japan, for which Sony is an iconic corporate name, has argued that a public accusation could interfere with delicate diplomatic negotiations underway for the return of Japanese nationals kidnapped years ago.
Now it is really starting to look like a U.S. operation. Doing anything they can to kick up a war in Asia, and it's quite a disgusting thing to see.
The sudden urgency inside the administration over the Sony issue came after a new threat was delivered this week to desktop computers at Sony’s offices that if “The Interview” was released on Dec. 25, “the world will be full of fear.” It continued: “Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.”
OMG! It's not as if they hacked into the Pentagon.
And yet this issue has taken on "sudden urgency" even though Sony was hacked over a year ago?
This is REALLY STARTING TO STINK like a PROPAGANDA PSYOP!!
Sony dropped its plan to release the film after the four largest US theater chains — Regal Entertainment, AMC Theatres, Cinemark, and Carmike Cinemas — and several smaller chains said they would not show the film. The cancellations virtually killed “The Interview” as a theatrical enterprise, at least in the near term, one of the first known instances of a threat from another nation pre-empting the release of a movie.
Look at the NYT! They don't even know who is behind the hacking and they are ascribing them to the North Koreans.
While intelligence officials have concluded that the cyberattack on Sony was both state-sponsored and far more destructive than any seen before on US soil, there are still differences of opinion over whether North Korea was aided by Sony insiders with an intimate knowledge of the company’s computer systems.
You have to be kidding, right? After all these years of being told China stole secrets?
“This is of a different nature than past attacks,” one senior official said. A cyberattack that began by wiping out data on corporate computers — something previously been seen in attacks in South Korea and Saudi Arabia but not in the United States — has turned “into a threat to the safety of Americans” if the movie was shown.
However, both the official and the Department of Homeland Security, the latter in a statement, said, “There is no specific, credible threat information that would suggest that any attack was imminent.”
Better not be, or the government will have to scrap the global $urveillance tyranny and data collection.
I mean, if the NSA were truly doing its job instead of hacking into everything....
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Related: Can't Go 'Unanswered': N. Korea Ordered Sony Hack, Officials Say
Are you READY FOR A WAR??????
