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DOJ To Announce Charges Against North Koreans For Sony Hack, Wannacry Attack (go.com)
The Justice Department is planning to announce charges Thursday against North Korean nationals who U.S. authorities have accused of being behind the massive hack of Sony in 2014 and the Wannacry ransomware attack lack year. From a report: Earlier on Thursday, President Donald Trump praised North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un on Twitter. "Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims 'unwavering faith in President Trump.' Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!" Trump tweeted. The Washington Post adds: Pak Jin Hyok, who conducted hacking on behalf of North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, the military intelligence agency that controls most of the country's cyber capabilities, is charged in the attack on Sony, according to U.S. officials. He is linked to the notorious Lazarus Group, which has also been implicated in the audacious attempt to use cyber techniques to steal $1 billion from the Bangladesh Bank in 2016, and to the WannaCry computer virus that affected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries last year.
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Will the DOJ be pressing charges against Sony for installing a rootkit on its customers machines?
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Your Trump related pull quote has nothing to do with the story.
I'm not sure why the parent post was marked down. The entire article from ABC news is cryptic, which could lead one to wonder about meaning, never mind motive:
What is ABC trying to say with the quote from Trump embedded in the article about the DOJ pursuing charges against the North Korean nationals? Is ABC News pointing out that Trump is working with Kim Jong Un to bring the criminals to justice? Is ABC News making the point that Trump is out of step with the DOJ?
Why is the US justice doing this? Sony in NOT a US corporation.
Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Knan, Minato, Tokyo.
why the hell is the us justice system even touching this? That,s Japans job not ours. Why is the US justice system spending US taxpayer money protecting a foreign corporation?????
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First coincidence was the indictment of a dozen Russians who were not even on US soil the day after the Trump-Putin conference in Helsinki.
Now the DOJ attempts to indict North Koreans the day after North Korea agrees to nuclear disarmament.
Is this a real pattern here, or am I just seeing things? If it is a pattern, why is it a pattern?
They're suggesting that Trump hasn't bothered to listen to anything the DoJ have said (they would have briefed him over the past few days). They're implying that the DoJ's announcement will cause diplomatic headaches for Trump, as it will hurt his credibility at home and with the North Korean government.
However, rather more importantly, they're stating that there is a relationship in time between two otherwise unconnected events.
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What does that matter? The US has a responsibility for its citizens on any soil and for events on its soil regardless of the citizenship of those affected.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Yet they have the software and internet to hack the US and India?
Come on now.. you're either dirt poor farmers or uber leet hackers. You can't do both.
It matters moron because these people can't be extradited. So this is theater, this is just for show. Get a fucking clue.
"New evidence Sony hack was ‘inside’ job, not North Korea" https://nypost.com/2014/12/30/...
New Research Blames Insiders, Not North Korea, for Sony Hack http://time.com/3649394/sony-h...
Researcher: Sony Hack Was Likely an Inside Job by a Woman Named "Lena" http://gawker.com/researcher-s...
So no boys and girls this was not North Korea. This is an attempt by the Military Industrial Complex to gin up tensions with North Korea in order to prevent detente. Because you know war is profitable but peace is not. Stocks for military contracts took a tumble when the US was negotiating with North Korea.
Nice opinion piece there, but it's not written anywhere into the rule of law. All this is is the US trying to flex. No one cares; the obese nation is rotting internally and has bigger things to worry about. Like the fact that its economy is going to go bust in the near future. Most the idiots in office cant even turn on a computer; the fact that some dinosaurs from the DOJ want to try to "pursue" legal action throughout the world; when the perpetrators are right in front of them is absolutely disgusting. Sue the NSA, disband and destroy them. They should have reported the vulnerability so that this DIDNT happen; the fact that it happened and was the result of the NSA tells you that the real perpetrators are the US intelligence community.
Also charge Microsoft with gross negligence.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
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Sony are the ones who installed rootkits on music CDs. Sony did the hack.
One of the Microsoft patches specific to patching up Wannacry was finalized and digitally signed with one of Microsoft's keys several months before Wannacry was even happening.
We know since before that NSA/CIA have copies of Microsoft's keys, and this suggests that Wannacry and patches to fix it up was made by NSA months before, everything to be used to 1) probe global infrastructure and 2) shift the blame on someone else who was on the current agenda.
You can wringe and excuse all you want, but the fact is that the patch was signed months before the fact. It's a smoking gun, and there's no way you can sweep it under the rug.
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Will the people responsible for discovering the vulnerabilities and letting everybody exposed be charged with anything? Or does the military complex get away with yet another fuck up?