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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.
WTF are you talking about?
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There are more cases, even including bribery of US politicians, but I couldn't find a link in 5 seconds so I leave that to the people interested to find.
There is plenty of stuff in the leaked data that Sony doesn't want to get spread because it shows that they are engaging in criminal activity on a global level.
The "It's only personal data, think about the children!" nonsense is a lame attempt at covering up their wrongdoings and make people not look to closely into the leaked e-mails.
The "article" has a wall of text, but no link.
Here:
https://wikileaks.org/sony/press/
Doxxing employees who just happen to be trying to make ends meet are not going to help anyone's cause. It just makes Wikileaks look more like a rogue site. Piss off the powers that be enough, and Wikileaks will suffer the same fate as the Silk Road.
Yes, dumping socials of schmucks online will give Wikileaks their 15 minutes, which is a short term gain... but people have long memories, and the fact that they hurt a lot of average Joes who have little to do with Sony is going to hurt their cause in the long run.
Had Wikileaks wanted to actually make a statement and earn some long term respect, they would have had an editor at least go in and redact social security numbers, addresses, names of people's children, and other details. This isn't hard here. Just a simple sed script can zero or mask out SSNs. There is a lot of newsworthy stuff in the hacked Sony emails already, no need to expose innocent people and their families to ID theft for the rest of their lives.
Wikileaks needs as many friends in power as it possibly can. This stupid stuff just makes them an radioactive to anyone except the basement-dwellers, and it endangers them and any future sites that pop up that might blow the whistle on legitimate malfeasance.
First of all this is an edited version. The OMG PERSONLYA INFORMATIN! is Sonys claim to try to prevent the incriminating stuff from spreading. If you actually look at what Wikileaks provide you see that they have provided way more than Sony wants them to but way less than Sony claims they do.
The problem with that is that editing hurts credibility. How do I know that Wikileaks haven't removed even more incriminating information?
It is still better than the information provided by Sony since it is done by a third party. It is not as good as raw data.
The leaks prove the whole "North Korea" thing was bullshit.
It was all made up. North Korea never threatened Sony. The President was dragged out and an international incident started, and it was all because of a fake Popehat twitter account and Sony spinning the opportunity like a neutron star.
But it's all gossip yeah, lol. Assange is such a loser too. And a rapist. He's totally not likable and Wikileaks is a joke guys. Pshhaww! . Line B is the answer btw.
Possibly because the social and political implications are overblown and the documents themselves aren't very probative on this point.
China and the U.S. film industry are deep in each other's pockets. China and the U.S. government, specifically the military, exert enormous influence over entertainment content when they are portrayed. Movies are rewritten to exclude Chinese villains or references to the Chinese political system; China is happy to lock out an entire studio's product for one anti-Chinese film. Films that feature American military hardware often obtain it from the Pentagon, for free, in exchange for the Pentagon having script approval. And then there are movies like the last Transformers, which was rubber-stamped by both the Chinese government AND the Pentagon.
This is common knowledge, covered in many places before, people just don't care. The leak of documents is meant to give the appearance of coverup and scandal when there really isn't one.