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WikiLeaks' Latest: An Even More Massive Trove of Sony Documents

Posted by timothy on from the little-light-reading dept.

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."

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  1. Re:mmm 4k content by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That would be never.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I have been working on getting around that for 25 years. It is not possible (doesnt stop me from keep trying though). Their theory holds up very well. The only way around it is to add more 'channels'. That does not exist. The best compression algs these days are ones which remove information and then feed it into other compression algs which can do good on that massaged data. PNG is a good example where the upper part is a massaging of the data then fed into deflate.

  2. Is this a public service? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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?