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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?
Kinda like Catholic school?
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
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.
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.
Have Catholic schools started training suicide bombers?
Nope, just IRA bombers. Now whether that's smarts or cowardice that's kept them from killing themselves (apart from those that did it accidently), it doesn't make them morally superior.
Nor for that matter the bible thumping protestant KKK killers and abortion clinic bombers.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
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.
The schools taught them that? I suppose a school that teaches chemistry may teach that but I know of no Catholic school that taught kids to be bombers or suicide bombers. I am not a Catholic (or Christian) or the likes but I would prefer honesty in debates. If you have a citation, anything close will do, then that would be interesting.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
The schools taught them that? I suppose a school that teaches chemistry may teach that but I know of no Catholic school that taught kids to be bombers or suicide bombers. I am not a Catholic (or Christian) or the likes but I would prefer honesty in debates. If you have a citation, anything close will do, then that would be interesting.
But a Madrassa teaches how to build bombs. Yeah, right. If you have any actual proof but something from Faux News, bring it on.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Where did I say that? Hell, I did not even imply that.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."