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Anonymous Claims They Will Release "The Interview" Themselves
An anonymous reader writes In a series of tweets the hacker collective Anonymous says they will release "The Interview" to the masses if Sony won't. A few of the tweets read: "Seriously @Sony we warned you. We infiltrated your systems long before North Korea. We thought you'd take it as a warning and fix your s@#t." and "We're not with either side, we just want to watch the movie too and soon you too will be joining us. Sorry, @SonyPictures."
"Anonymous" is a floating designation, not the same people all the time - so it's hard to define them.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
The bulk of executive compensation is typically in stock. And either because the stock vests over time or because they're using a blind trust to get around SEC rules, they're only able to sell a little bit at a time. Because they're constantly granting themselves stock (Carl just dropped a deuce. Good job Carl! Have some RSUs! So, how are negotiations progressing with that blood-sucking labor union?), they always have a ton of unsold, illiquid stock.
Also, once you get really rich banks will grant you loans against your stock, even unvested stock. If the value plummets you get an unfriendly call from the bank.
If the stock goes down, the executives' net worth goes down. And, worse, many will have to dip into their own cash reserves. I doubt they'd want to risk their existing wealth on such a hair-brained scheme.
Now, it might make more sense for somebody outside the company to do this. But then that would require alot of trust in the future of Sony, especially because the scheme requires buying Sony stock when they're in the middle of an unprecedented crisis.
Please, people. If you're gonna concoct conspiracy theories, at least try a little harder. There are conspiracies all around you. But for some reason the people who like the most to spin conspiracy theories are the ones totally in the dark about reality.
As always, the truth is stranger (and more maddening and more dangerous) than fiction.
In this specific case, BMG was a separate music company that Sony purchased shortly before the scandal. There wasn't a guy working in a Sony office in Japan who approved the rootkit. It happened nine years ago, it didn't actually act as a backdoor to people getting hacked, and I think it's time for Slashdot to get over it.
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