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..what?
If the US actually attacked NK, they'd do it over something of value. Sony is based in Japan, with the US being a subsidiary. How the US would possibly view this as an attack on the US is bewildering.
Assuming that this was, somehow, the case why a DDOS attack? Why not an attack that might work? A DDOS can be addressed, assuming that anyone with technical skills exists. Barring technical skills, pay your mercenary black hats to fix it. If you can afford to hack Sony over a film, then you'd better be able to afford protection once your actions come to light. People commit genocide over a book that is thousands of years old, so hacking a bunch of a--holes isn't unreasonable. Heck, the people who protested soldiers' funerals were slandered pretty well.
In short, this is too petty for the US. It reeks of "not so black hat" black hats getting their kicks. Call it hactivism, terrorism, or childish pranks; this outage only hurts the top level people who hurt the common people. I see no harm in it.
If the US actually attacked NK, they'd do it over something of value. Sony is based in Japan, with the US being a subsidiary. How the US would possibly view this as an attack on the US is bewildering.
Assuming that this was, somehow, the case why a DDOS attack? Why not an attack that might work? A DDOS can be addressed, assuming that anyone with technical skills exists. Barring technical skills, pay your mercenary black hats to fix it. If you can afford to hack Sony over a film, then you'd better be able to afford protection once your actions come to light. People commit genocide over a book that is thousands of years old, so hacking a bunch of a--holes isn't unreasonable. Heck, the people who protested soldiers' funerals were slandered pretty well.
In short, this is too petty for the US. It reeks of "not so black hat" black hats getting their kicks. Call it hactivism, terrorism, or childish pranks; this outage only hurts the top level people who hurt the common people. I see no harm in it.
