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Hackers Break Into HBO's Networks, May Have Leaked 'Game of Thrones' Script (variety.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Hackers have broken into the networks of HBO and reportedly leaked unreleased episodes of a number of shows, as well as the script for next week's "Game of Thrones" episode. Altogether, they have reportedly obtained a total of 1.5 terabyte of data. HBO confirmed the intrusion in a statement sent to Variety: "HBO recently experienced a cyber incident, which resulted in the compromise of proprietary information. We immediately began investigating the incident and are working with law enforcement and outside cybersecurity firms. Data protection is a top priority at HBO, and we take seriously our responsibility to protect the data we hold."
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FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT
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[SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!]
If they took it seriously it wouldn't have been stolen, nor would they have poked the 300lb hacker.
On the one hand it's their crappy IT department, on the other hand they might wise up to the fact their buddy's son or an Indian outsourcing (slave camp (or even worse: h1b's...shudder) don't know about IT and switch to a release-the-whole-season-at-once model to avoid leaks.
whats the point of spoiling it for yourself? Id much rather wait each week for a complete post-production episode intended for release myself
Fuck Ajit Pai
Snape kills Dumbledore.
Everybody dies. Some pretty horribly.
The End.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Is anyone really going to read it who cares? I imagine the biggest use of this will be trying to spoil this for others online.
Let's just say this. After watching 4 episodes of GOT I can pretty much tell you what the plot is anyway.
Caution: Contents under pressure
HBO: You hacked my system. You downloaded terabytes. You stole my script.
HBO: Say it!!
HBO: You hacked my system. You downloaded terabytes. You stole my script.
HBO: Say it!!
HBO: You haven't confessed yet!
HBO: You hacked my system. You downloaded terabytes. You stole my script.
HBO: Say it!!
HBO: You hacked my system. You downloaded terabytes. You stole my script.
HBO: Say it!!
HBO: You hacked my system. You downloaded terabytes. You stole my script.
HBO: Say it!!
HBO: You haven't confessed yet!
HBO: You hacked my system. You downloaded terabytes. You stole my script.
HBO: Say it!!
Theif: I hacked your system. I downloaded terabytes. I stole your script.
Theif: Then I doxxed it like this!
HBO: You hacked my system. You downloaded terabytes. You stole my script.
HBO: Say it!!
HBO: You hacked my system. You downloaded terabytes. You stole my script.
HBO: Say it!!
HBO: You haven't confessed yet!
HBO: You hacked my system. You downloaded terabytes. You stole my script.
HBO: Say it!!
That scene doesn't end well for HBO...
#DeleteChrome
They were looking for the pro-racist Confederate images that HBO was planning to sell for their new series, so they could manufacture them more cheaply in China and make money off of them.
Easiest way to stop this is cancel the "new" series.
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If the IP is that valuable, why are the servers connected to the internet?
If people outside the LAN absolutely need access, provide it with two factor authentication with a hardware token. It's not rocket science.
But if they were really serious about protecting their IP, air gap it, and insist that the principles who need access do so via private LAN.
It almost seems like they need something to complain about.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
The script is really not that interesting. Has it great landscapes and battles? Has it sex? No, just words. Boring.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
...this is meant to be part of what is promised as a long and whining "protest" over GoT's showrunners' next series, "Confederate," which imagines a modern world in which the southern states won the American Civil War.
The problem is not that nobody understands this. The problem is that you have to get rid of bean-counters in high positions that do not understand this. That is pretty hard to do.
CEO: What do we need to improve IT security?
Security Consultant: Fire the CEO and get somebody that actually is able to listen to advice.
That will go well....
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
After two times, that gets lame as well...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Amazon still doesn't sell files. To call them convenient is a joke. You can only run their player (the only player able to stream their stuff) on certain types of computers using special software. It's not standardized at all.
Yes, Amazon is so inconvenient. I can only watch (and download) Amazon videos on my phone, my tablet, my Kindle Fire, my Fire TV stick, my Sony smart TV, my blu-ray player, my wife's iPad, my wife's Macbook, and my desktop PC. I should be able to watch Amazon on my smart fridge too(if I had one), dammit!
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
You're tedious and pathetic. You know as well as I do that if HBO offered files for sale, you'd complain about the encryption and your inability to "do whatever I want with what I purchased." Newsflash: HBO *has* opened for business in a "serious sense," it makes millions, while you're still living in some Napster time warp trying to rationalize your illegal and anti-social behavior. Get over yourself.
This attitude is probably the root of HBO's problems.
It's so common among big companies these days.
But it could also be inability to get quality talent at the salaries they offer.
In any case, the leaks don't matter to me. I don't even watch trailers for the next episode. I like to hit the episodes completely tabula rasa.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Good point.
Leave it to GRRM to figure out way to kill off characters twice. Or more.
He should set up gofundmes so his fans can bribe him to unkill their favorite characters.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
In an interesting example of Poe's Law, as someone who has never read Game of Thrones, but has a wife who watches the show (ie - I have a vague idea of the types of things that might be in that universe), the GP and parent's posts are indistinguishable as either a joke or an earnest indication of what could happen.
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
If you mean most people can watch 720p streams in real-time from their cell phone, then you are absolutely correct.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Everyone you like dies. Horribly. Evil rules Westeros forever. Roll credits.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You'd have a point if HBO was obligated to distribute their content to as many people as possible, if everyone had an inalienable right to electronic entertainment. But that's not the case. Get over your whiny sense of entitlement.
Citations needed. I've heard of DRM free games, but know of no successful media company with billion dollars in content creation that is DRM free.