What the Sony Hack Looked Like To Employees (slate.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The cyber attack on Sony was one of the highest profile hacks in the past several years. Slate tracked down two dozen people who worked there at the time, and asked them what it was like on the inside while it was happening. Quoting: "The telephone directory vanished. Voicemail was offline. Computers became bricks. Internet access on the lot was shuttered. The cafeteria went cash-only. Contracts—and the templates those contracts were based on—disappeared. Sony's online database of stock footage was unsearchable. It was near impossible for Sony to communicate directly with its employees—much less ex-employees, who were also gravely affected by the hack—to inform them of what was even happening and what to do about it. 'It was like moving back into an earlier time,' one employee says." Some employees had their workloads doubled, some had nothing to do. While the hack brought the company together at the beginning, it eventually descended into recriminations and lawsuits.

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Re:They aren't really still blaming DPRK, are they

[gstoddart]

Certainly if they had the ability, someone in that crew would have been aware of the Streisand Effect by now and would have said it was an awful idea.

Right, because batshit crazy dictators who routinely have people offed in spectacular ways who disappoint with them really give a crap when someone says "maybe we shouldn't do this".

I don't know or care who hacked Sony. But if you think telling them something is a bad idea is going to work, then I'm afraid you're so utterly clueless about North Korea that you should really stop talking about it.

North Korea is ran by a vicious little psychopath who thinks he can do anything he wants, and whose daddy and granddaddy have been doing the same thing for decades.

if the North Koreans wanted it to go away the right thing to do would have been to let it fail on its own

Never underestimate the flair for the dramatic from a psycho little dictator, or assume that anything they ever do is rational by your or my standards -- these are people who really think they can define reality according to their own whim.

Smart? Sane? Rational? Not bloody likely.

More like bloodthirsty, remorseless, and utterly convinced of their own position as supreme authority.

Seriously, trying to say what you think makes sense in this context is bound to be wrong.