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WikiLeaks' Latest: An Even More Massive Trove of Sony Documents
Newsweek is one of many outlets to report that Wikileaks' latest dump is a trove of Sony's company emails and other documents that consists of even more individual pieces than the 200,000-plus leaked in April. Included, says the Newsweek story, are "276,394 Sony Corp. communications, including email, travel calendars, contact lists, expense reports and private files." One interesting tidbit revealed by the documents thus revealed, spotted by Apple Insider, is that "Apple requested [from Sony] 4K content for potential digital distribution and on-demand services testing nearly two years ago, suggesting the company has been exploring ultra high-definition streaming for some time."
Whens Pied Piper going to release their Algorithm?
It's not a typo if you understood the meaning!
Never gonna get him. Get over yourselves.
How is this at all what Wikileaks is supposed to be for? At this point it seems more like crass voyeurism than any type of serious attempt to shine a light on corporate misconduct. Sure, Apple asking Sony for 4k content is interesting from a business perspective, but wrong-doing that needed to be exposed it is not. All this seems like is a massive invasion of privacy, as I don't buy for a second that Sony's position "at the centre of a geo-political conflict." in any way justifies such an un-curated document dump.
Obviously nothing; if they can't secure their own corporate network, what tells me my personal info and credit card number is safe?
Giving the best in entertainment news, from Sony to Hurricane Anna. So lame
Give us the good shit on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Then I'll believe they got something.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Clearly some very sophisticated group of hackers, probably either from China or NK, did the deed. There's a reason why a business' emails are internal - they're not designed for the world to see, as they discuss internal strategies, planning, projects, research, personal reactions to presentations, HR stuff, and more.
As psychologists have demonstrated, people act differently when they know the world is watching, as opposed to one other person or a small other group of people. The change is not always for the better; you get more superficiality, more CYA in the former case.
Of course, when Assange was charged with sexual misconduct then that's an outrageous invasion of privacy. Gee! Privacy is a good thing now! What expectations of privacy do you have, Mr. Assange?
Now that's just vile and disgusting.
Who would eat hair on a cockmeat sandwich?
Seriously, though, once they've done with this poor sod, Luke might as well leave the targeting computer on, no Force required.
where are those?
reddit you failit for wussyness under pressure.
who cares about apple sucking dick for sony vid?
Saudi Arabia exploits the situation whereby most of the moslems in many islamic countries are poor
For example - in Pakistan more than 80% of the children can't go to school because their parents simply can't afford to pay their school fees
In order to get their children to study, the poor parents in Pakistan enroll their children in madrassa - Islamic Religious School - financed largely by Saudi oil money
And in the madrassas the children from the age of 5 are inculcated with extremist islamic teachings. By the time they reach their teen years they have had more than 12 years of intensive brainwash, so much so that they are more than willing to die for the 'cause'
And Pakistan is not the only place in the world in which Saudi Arabia is sponsoring the brainwashing campaign for the next generation of islamic terrorists --- countries spanning the world, from Morocco to Nigeria to Kenya to Afghanistan to India to Yemen to Somalia to South Africa to Mali to Indonesia to the Philippines to even the Western nations, the fingerprints of Saudi Arab are everywhere
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Seems to me, if s/Sony/US Congress/g could happen the world would be a better place.
Nothing happens. Nothing has happened. Nothing will happen. Ever. They could prove that Sony regularly serves roasted baby meat to his employees and nobody would do anything. The rookit thing? Nobody cares or knows or remembers. Talk to someone in the streets about it, you'll be rewarded with a blank stare. Explain it and you'll be regaled with answers like "oh, that was a long time ago then" or "I don't even know what that rootcrap is so I don't care" and get a dismissive gesture at best. That's the reality of it. And face it, why should be people be up in arms against Sony when their very governments have revealed themselves to be keeping tabs on their citizens and actively assisting other countries into doing it? Have you seen any mass demonstrations against surveillance? No. People have more pressing concerns now, and most probably mankind has reached a state of mental adulthood which makes them recognize the futility of protesting against things that will not change, especially since government retaliation is a distinct possibility, what with ubiquitous surveillance, face recognition and whatever. Tyranny has triumphed. We lost. End of story.
Much as Sony had this coming to them, how is releasing all this private information a public service? I rather enjoy the amount of privacy I currently have, and think that people and companies have a right to conduct certain matters privately. The fact that Sony lobbies should surprise no one.
Sony isn;t the US Government, and Wikileaks ONLY leaks stuff about the US Government!
This must be a FAKE Wikileaks to distract us from the commies of Wikileaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One must wonder if Assange will wake up one morning with the legendary Honjo Masamune sword sticking out of his back?
OMG. Obama is trying to get industry to support his trade deal. That God Wikileaks brought that to light. How would we have ever known that was going on without them.
Serious stuff like an almost this almost quid pro quo to Republican Congress members for TPP goodies . The fact the media only concentrates on celebrity bullshit is not Wikileaks fault.
Wow you have a major reading comprehension problem combined with a lack of current events knowledge.
The TPP is Obama's program. The "Michael Froman" being referred to is a Democrat. The Republicans are the ones largely responsible for stopping iit, they did get some help from Democrat defectors.
There's two separate topics in the email, two unrelated phone calls. Note: "I wanted to give you a heads up regarding a couple of issues". The NRCC is just the Republican congressional committee. They are discussing regular fundraising and its unrelated to TPP.
Actually the email is more about the White House reaching out to industry for support on a trade bill. OMG, imagine that. How would we ever know about various entertainment CEOs being invited to the White House for talks if it weren't for wikileaks?
One interesting tidbit revealed by the documents thus revealed, spotted by Apple Insider, is that "Apple requested [from Sony] 4K content for potential digital distribution and on-demand services testing nearly two years ago, suggesting the company has been exploring ultra high-definition streaming for some time."
Who gives a shit? We're not entitled to read a dump from sony to determine what their future business plans are, not that I give a shit who does, but that's not actually what's interesting. What's interesting is what laws has Sony deliberately broken since the last dump. Since they always do, I want to know what it was. I don't even care a little bit that Sony is investigating 4k streaming, which is not even a little bit of a surprise. I want to see Sony held over the coals, not masturbated over by Apple Insider.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I cannot find the link but in the past two weeks or so, there was an 'Ask Slashdot' by a person wanting to find a way of passing on the info contained in his email history before he left his company. His or her reasons were essentially to pass on his corporate knowledge. The person was mostly derided with "Who cares?" It seems however, that given the keen interest in every company email cull that gets left in Wikileaks (or with some reporter), that companies should have an interest in vetting the emails of departing employees to assess what those emails communicate about the company. It seems likely that those emails to give insights in to the explicit known, and implicit unknown, networks a company has established, as well as the 'view from within, at the employee level' of company health (eg. do the grass roots see the company as a sinking ship, _what_ problems did the employee perceive that went unreported, etc.).
Just deleting the email account of a departing employee, is blindly hoping there are no problems that will come up. Reviewing those emails, might proactively ensure there are no surprises in the company's future.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
Did you miss the part in the rest of that e-mail where Republicans were asking for $40k from each studio, and set up a specific PAC so that it wouldn't be tied directly to supporting the Republican party (can't give up the illusion that all media is left-leaning) and to be structured such that it doesn't look like a corporate donation (have individual executives contribute)..
Look at the last few federal elections. It's PACs paying for a lot of the advertising on both sides. Not only does it shield the parties and candidates, but if the commercial is just a bunch of lies, the party and candidate can say they had nothing to do with it. While it is not particularly democratic, it's how the system works. Hope and change couldn't fix it.
Did you miss the part in the rest of that e-mail where Republicans were asking for $40k from each studio, and set up a specific PAC so that it wouldn't be tied directly to supporting the Republican party (can't give up the illusion that all media is left-leaning) and to be structured such that it doesn't look like a corporate donation (have individual executives contribute)..
No. Neither did I miss the part that this part of the email had nothing to do with the first, as the author was suggesting. Also ...
OMG. A political party is creating non-transparent PACs before a presidential election and seeking donations from corporations. How would we ever known of such things if it were not for Wikileaks.
Next from wikileaks, the sky is blue on days with nice weather.
Hope and change couldn't fix it.
"Hope and change" was brought to us by non-transparent PAC money.
I think he raised a few eyebrows with the $100K bounty he's offering (and currently seeking support for) for submission of the rest of the secret trade deal papers. Did that story even make Slashdot? An overseas newscast experienced what I thought was a suspicious signal dropout during that story. Come to think of it, something very similar happened during part of a report on the Greek debt negotiations (last Friday I think). (some playing markets could also be motivated to mess with that news flow) That bounty news was right before some major hack stories broke. The Chinese or Russians did it? Yeah, right. The German parliament IT was seriously disrupted. Maybe someone else did that. They recently put up a statue of somebody named Edward in Berlin. Is there even one town in the U.S. that would do the same?