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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!
People wonder some of us have a massive problem with Assange/Snowden/Wikileaks, and this story says it all.
Pricks.
The public interest is not always served by the indiscriminate, robotic release of all information.
Watergate, a modern example of a huge press exposé, was executed effectively while protecting sources and preventing people who contributed from having their lives physically put into danger (as WikiLeaks did with their Manning leaks) or devastatingly revealed of all personal details (like some innocent Sony employees).
Assange is a vile histrionic douche. Wouldn't be too tragic if someone killed *him* as he's caused other, innocent people to die.
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.
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?
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/
do they have HR departments in HR???
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
Really? "Ruin innocent people's lives!"???
HOW?
It is easy to get a list of people's names or find out who works in Sony. So anyone wanting to make their lives a misery merely for working at SEO will already have done so.
What you really mean is that now names are applied to the shitbags who made decisions to fuck over other people's lives for a buck.
Yes, some of this could (COULD) result in some collateral damage.
But your histrionics is entirely fictional wailing.
Get a fucking sense of proportion.
Even though you hate wikileaks, all you're doing is making an arse of yourself.
"Stolen" implies that the information belonged to Sony in the first place, but it didin't, so how could it be stolen?
Click here and laugh at some of the most funniest emails I've ever seen
Some more laughs
you just know copies exist
not sure when the proper blackmail time is