Comment Re:Idiots (Score 1) 153
Sony Pictures is a US corporation.
Comment Re:What are the implications for the textbook mark (Score 2) 170
+5 funny.
Comment Re:Screw them (Score 2) 221
Are you new to planet earth and the way the movie companies work?
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 4, Informative) 221
The threat that stopped the movie from being released was the claim of blowing up theaters. Why would the theater chains who backed out care about Sony's data being leaked?
Comment Re:Intercepting encrypted communications! OMG! (Score 1) 89
Since you assign God-like powers to the NSA, give up now because nothing is secure.
Subverting standards and products is not having a God-like power. It's well within the means of a nation-state agency with an unlimited black budget. Their own documents even prove this.
Comment Re:More like (Score 1) 221
Sony was going to release it up until all the major theater chains said they wouldn't show it. It's sort of hard to release a movie into theaters when none of them will show it.
Comment Re:Screw them (Score 3, Funny) 221
Have pigs sprouted wings and started flying in your universe?
Comment Re:So, let me get this straight: (Score 2) 221
And posting to pastebin is now "coding" apparently.
Comment Re:Superpower (Score 1) 221
How dare you! Posting to pastebin is coding!!!
Comment Re:What the fuck (Score 4, Insightful) 221
Nothing. This is just unadulterated clickbait.
Comment Re:Screw them (Score 1) 221
Other than straight to video there is no where to release it to. Most of the theater chains in the US backed away from it.
Comment Re:hyperbole much? (Score 4, Insightful) 221
Exactly. Sony was going to press forward with the release regardless of the intrusion. What shutdown the movie was the pastebin threat that caused a bunch of theater chains to shit themselves.
Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere 89
krakman writes: Researchers discovered security flaws in SS7 that allow listening to private phone calls and intercepting text messages on a potentially massive scale – even when cellular networks are using the most advanced encryption now available. The flaws, to be reported at a hacker conference in Hamburg this month, are actually functions built into SS7 for other purposes – such as keeping calls connected as users speed down highways, switching from cell tower to cell tower – that hackers can repurpose for surveillance because of the lax security on the network. It is thought that these flaws were used for bugging German Chancellor Angela's Merkel's phone.
Those skilled at the housekeeping functions built into SS7 can locate callers anywhere in the world, listen to calls as they happen or record hundreds of encrypted calls and texts at a time for later decryption (Google translation of German original). There is also potential to defraud users and cellular carriers by using SS7 functions, the researchers say. This is another result of security being considered only after the fact, as opposed to being part of the initial design.
Those skilled at the housekeeping functions built into SS7 can locate callers anywhere in the world, listen to calls as they happen or record hundreds of encrypted calls and texts at a time for later decryption (Google translation of German original). There is also potential to defraud users and cellular carriers by using SS7 functions, the researchers say. This is another result of security being considered only after the fact, as opposed to being part of the initial design.
Comment Re:Land of the free (Score 1) 580
Again, you've not actually contradicted me. Subsidiaries are subject to the laws and courts of the country under which they've incorporated. In the case of Sony Pictures that is the US.
Comment Re:Land of the free (Score 1) 580
Hahaha. That's gotta be one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Sony Pictures is a US corporation precisely because of its country of incorporation. The country you incorporate in is the country under which law you are subject to.
You aren't really dumb enough to think being a subsidiary of an international company means that the subsidiary isn't subject to the laws of the country it's incorporated in, do you?
