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Submission + - : NSA Hack of North Korea is How Obama Was Convinced NK Was Behind Sony Hack (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Mike Lape on Monday January 19, 2015 @12:36AM

Mike Lape writes: The evidence gathered by the “early warning radar” of software painstakingly hidden to monitor North Korea’s activities proved critical in persuading President Obama to accuse the government of Kim Jong-un of ordering the Sony attack, according to the officials and experts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the classified N.S.A. operation.

Submission + - Tweet From Hacked AP Account Causes High Freq Traders to Drop DOW 150 Points (cnbc.com)

Submitted by Mike Lape on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @02:38PM

Mike Lape writes: Stocks plunged and recovered within minutes after the hacked AP Twitter account sent out a tweet that indicated that the White House had been the victim of an explosion and that President Obama had been injured. "That goes to show you how algorithms read headlines and create these automatic orders – you don't even have time to react as a human being""

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