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Wikileaks Publishes Hacked Sony Emails, Documents
itwbennett writes Wikileaks has published a searchable database of thousands of emails and documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment that were leaked in late 2014 after the studio was attacked by hackers. Some of the 173,132 emails and 30,287 documents contain highly personal information about Sony employees including home addresses, personal phone numbers and social security numbers, a fact which is likely to raise new concerns about the use of stolen information online.
They may have a "lofty ideal," but they ruin innocent bystanders lives.
Other than some titillating gossip that was hashed out 3-4 months ago already, this seems less than newsworthy.
The only way to stop a bad guy with a leak is a good guy with a leak!
Don't lump Snowden in with those other fuckers (Assange and WikiLeaks are the same, but you could add Ms. Manning to the list). Snowden deliberately went the route of engaging *professional, prudent journalists* to avoid the type of mass, public harm done by WikiLeaks types. Greenwald & Co haven't done a flawless job of protecting the public interest, but they've done way better than an Assange style job would have.
Keepin' in classy, Wikileaks.
Nothing like proving your critics right while also accomplishing a lot of nothing.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
what innocent people did he cause to die? innocence? farcical. professional journalism, lol what is this, the 1970s? fucking idiot.
Er, no.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Still had them in China, leaked loads of info to the Chinese press, then still had them in Russia. If that's "professional and prudent", then I'm Bob Saget's dog. Snowden has never had an ounce of control over his situation since he left the States, and to therefore assume that he had a choice who he gave up information to is fucking naive.
You know that everything in that article is hearsay don't you?
If they have nothing to hide, nothing to worry about. What moron sends SS# through email? All this information is already in NSA hands, so why would anyone care?
There is nothing in here about "loads of information" leaked to Chinese press (only one mention of a set of IP addresses), nor is there anything to establish he still had viable copies of these documents when he went to Russia. A few vague mentions of something he might do in the future doesn't prove anything except he thought about it.
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I'm all up for revealing bad secrets and showing the world the bad side of governments, but these are private emails with personal information. As far as leaking goes, this has everything of the bad, and nothing of the good.
Trafficking in stolen goods is what they are doing. just because it was leaked/hacked doesn't change the fact that a theft occured.
The Psy-Ops Shilling Is Real.
The "article" has a wall of text, but no link.
Here:
https://wikileaks.org/sony/press/
Whos a good dog? Whos a good dog? You aren't, no you aren't!
Good dogs have IQ's high enough to not piss on the carpet.
do they have HR departments in HR???
I have to say, I have to agree with you. There's still some missing pieces of the Snowden picture and contradictions that need to be resolved to really understand all of his actions and motivations, but overall I think of all of the major leak issues that came up, he handled his the most responsibly.
Still would have rather he avoided Greenwald, who's always been a sensationalist self-aggrandizer, but at least he made sure there'd be some sort of filter to at least try to protect the innocent (I think the filter should have been even tighter, but no question that there needs to be a debate about the fundamental points of the leaks, and it took a leaker to make that happen).
*Kid Rock runs for Senate* Democrats: We must run Kid Scissors.
Wow.. opening themselves up to a LOT of lawsuits with all that personal information they are putting out there. But then I'm not a lawyer.
Information like this, after already being leaked, should not be in the hands of a few elite journalists.
This is definitely a good thing, democratizing full access to information that has previously only been selectively reported.
Methinks the mare doth protest too much.
I always through that WL was about meaningful leaks for journalism/public good not just anything private that randomly gets leaked.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
The US manipulates public opinion on social media; they work in teams, creating fake discussions out of thin air, leading to a predetermined conclusion.
That you lump in Assange with Snowden illustrates neatly that you don't have a clue and can be safely ignored.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Wikileaks like to market this as shining light on the truth but in reality they are just revictimizing a company that was the victim of hacking and theft.
I see this as no different than someone wiretapping publishing a family's private conversations. Its not right. And I for one would like to see Wikileaks face some kind of consequence for their actions.
"...the inner workings of a large, secretive multinational corporation...that behind the scenes [Sony] is an influential corporation, with ties to the White House, an ability to impact laws and policies, and connections to the US military-industrial complex".
MJ would be proud. Not that i'm a fan per se, but he did go public and warn the world about Sony before his death.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
Dear Mr. Assange,
Thank you for publishing the documents I sent you.
Your payment is in the mail.
Kim Jon-Un
Yes it does serve a purpose. By choosing to release all info and never redacting then at some level they shield themselves from claims of bribery or bias. What happens if Sony and WB both have information leaks, WB makes a 10M donation to Wikileaks to redact info and Sony doesn't.
I'm not arguing they should or shouldn't redact but strict rules of always releasing all information they receive does serve a purpose.
Lastly nobody forces anybody to read any of it.
What surprises me is the similarity between both introductions not the completely different conclusion between both summaries. It is almost like there was an attempt to control the discussion of these leaks in the context of personal privacy (and of course it is an important part) but also burying the content of the leak itself and its political, social and economical implications.
Informants, spies and military personnel outside of their home country are not exactly innocent bystanders. Their deaths (proof of none of which has been provided so far) shouldn't be more valuable than deaths of people who happened to live in the proximity of some supposedly high-value targets.
I was sifting trough all of your comments in here, and not ONE of them even considers that this could be a plot to completely destroy wikileaks.
Remember when wikileaks where all about exposing corruption within government, military, dangerous religious money cults? This whole thing smells like a setup to me.
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
This smacks of a desperate attempt to stay in the news and little more.
Hackers did it! By hacking!
You immediately know the speaker's intentions by his invocation of the cyberbogeymen and their doings. You also know he's hiding lack of actual knowledge and insight by using those terms.
So he's got nothing to bring to the discussion except indignation at bogeymen. If you are agreeable to that approach, hey, go ahead and read it. If not, you can easily save yourself some time, for you can be certain there'll be no facts to be learned. The announcement is pretty clear.
you're a naive moron. you think it serves any purpose at all to reveal the full personal emails of Sony employees unredacted so we can all read about their personal and private tragedies?
According to Sony everything the employees does with their computers is the property of Sony and there shouldn't be personal and private information on them.
The damage you are accusing Wikileaks of causing have already been caused by Sony if the leaks contains private information at all and isn't just a bullshit claim by Sony to prevent spreading of incriminating information.
Have you read the emails?
1. The US government consults with Sony and other studios on pro-US propaganda.
2. Crazy pro-Israel nuts try to rope stars into their pro-Israel propaganda, when they don't agree he abuses them verbally.
3. Most of the execs are whiny bored ass-shats who should be thrown out on the streets to earn a real living.
That was just 10 minutes of searches. Number 1. in particular has me wondering if the US government actual compensates (i.e. pays money) to studios to promote propaganda agendas?
I see below the JTRIG crowd are in, JTRIG are the astroturfers for the spooks that try to attack people with fake 'victim' charges, honeypots (=hookers) Assange and his rape charge as an example, or Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the fake rape charge from a maid who turned out to have discussed this 'big win' before hand with her family abroad. These things look very much like anti-Assange stuff.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
But item 1 alone makes this public interest, as does the verbal attacks on Natalie Portman from execs.
Social security numbers shouldn't exist. Too much power rests in them. Social security is an oxymoron. Don't shoot the messenger. The root of the problem lies in this system.
Just speaking as someone who's PI is in the Sony dump, I have not yet been killed.
However, I'll be under fraud alert for the next three years, Nigerian princes call my cell about twice a day, and someone has already tried, and fortunately failed, to open a student loan in my name. (No, I don't get it either.)
I mean it's not awful, it's not like I slept with a video game reviewer or anything. But it's been a huge hassle.
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Quick Sony, concoct another movie banning and threats to national security to draw attention away from this!
It looks like maybe her email address is nport@me.com.
There's also 'Scarlett Johansson'
I'm drafting marriage proposals as we speak!!
I dont know guys... I know whistle blowing is not a crime... but exposing the contents of confidential information that may pose threats to Sony employees... isn't that a crime? Don't we have enough to just put that SOB in jail?
as sony employees have for their customers.
Read: none at all.
I know... we'll give them three months free service on some gaming network. That will make up for it!
Watch 'The Aristocrats' for more information about Saget's dog.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
So about the same thing that happens when some company employs "security through obscurity" and their customer database can be accessed by simply changing some numbers in the HTML link? Only breaches of that nature don't receive 1/10th the coverage this "story" will likely garner and yet they often effect millions. My guess is Sony is playing for some Browne points to help the State Department/FBIs investigation of the hack rolling a little faster.
"Stolen" implies that the information belonged to Sony in the first place, but it didin't, so how could it be stolen?
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you just know copies exist
not sure when the proper blackmail time is