3: Just wanton screwing around with medical records. If someone took a million records and just changed stuff like what meds people were allergic to and what conditions they have, it would render the whole database poisoned. Doing that, a hacker could utterly destroy and shutter a hospital, and wherever the tainted medical records went to. Of course, just the threat of this will get payouts in the tens of millions. Remember, it just takes one zero in a medicine dose to go from therapeutic to lethal in a lot of cases.
You do realize that people can already do that with paper records as well right? There's also much less effort involved.
And with all honesty, I'm really curious how much flack the NSA will receive now that Sony was put into the dark ages by one of the least connected countries in the world.
Hopefully a lot. Had they been focusing on such foreign threats rather than warrantless, blanket surveillance of US citizens they might have been able to prevent it.
And as for the analyst who was spying on her spouse, she's damn lucky she got a slap on the wrist. She could have gotten much, much worse for that.
You honestly think that what she did is an isolated incident? Did you miss the LOVEINT fiasco? And that's just what is reported publicly.
"Some"? The theaters that pulled the plug represent the vast majority of theaters in the country.
Heck, they could have gotten dozens of smaller distributors, looking to make a start! And small independent theaters would have jumped at the chance to show something the big corporations would not.
Except even independent theaters pulled the movie as well.
Perhaps read the novel and learn something of the philosophy before criticising it.
I'm pretty sure everyone already knows plenty about the "I've got mine so fuck you" philosophy of the Randroids. If I wanted to read juvenile fiction to bore myself some day, I'd just read a Stephanie Meyer novel. At least she eventually gets to the point.
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3: Just wanton screwing around with medical records. If someone took a million records and just changed stuff like what meds people were allergic to and what conditions they have, it would render the whole database poisoned. Doing that, a hacker could utterly destroy and shutter a hospital, and wherever the tainted medical records went to. Of course, just the threat of this will get payouts in the tens of millions. Remember, it just takes one zero in a medicine dose to go from therapeutic to lethal in a lot of cases.
You do realize that people can already do that with paper records as well right? There's also much less effort involved.
*yawn* Because paper records are sooper seekrit secure?
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http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_25...
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http://www.fiercehealthcare.co...
Yeah, no one can possibly sneak in and steal paper records! Unpossible!
You act as if disgruntled (ex-)employees have never done such a thing before. You would be wrong.
How would it not? Having means and motive does not make you guilty, though. A subtlety missed by many.
Are you just intentional dense? Using monkey as a slur against blacks is centuries and centuries old.
So is Obama your first exposure to a politician?
And with all honesty, I'm really curious how much flack the NSA will receive now that Sony was put into the dark ages by one of the least connected countries in the world.
Hopefully a lot. Had they been focusing on such foreign threats rather than warrantless, blanket surveillance of US citizens they might have been able to prevent it.
And as for the analyst who was spying on her spouse, she's damn lucky she got a slap on the wrist. She could have gotten much, much worse for that.
You honestly think that what she did is an isolated incident? Did you miss the LOVEINT fiasco? And that's just what is reported publicly.
This has got to be some of the laziest trolling ever.
This is gonna make cold fjord's head explode. He'll have to work overtime in this thread doing his damage control shilling.
Luckily there are other games to play.
They are jerks. This is just post hoc bullshit to try to paint themselves as white knights.
So they wouldn't mind if someone broke into their houses? Since, you know, it was just to force them to upgrade their security.
Denying people access to these services repeatedly is about being griefers not caring about the users' security.
Irrelevant when you're a dead brand whose corpse got bought up for its IP.
Because most people buying smartphones have never stepped into a Radio Shack even once in their life?
They might have a fighting chance to have a fraction of a fraction of a percent of marketshare.
I read it. That's the reason I'd never read it or any other Ayn Rand trash ever again.
pointy-eared bosses have a nasty habit of attribute the less-than-stellar elements of a project to you, even if you weren't responsible for them.
Damn those elven bosses!!
Protip: It's pointy-haired boss.
Apparently what you "know" about Rand's philosophy is not what Rand thought.
It sure matches how she acted and that's all that really matters.
"I've got mine so fuck you" is the opposite of Rand's philosophy.
And yet all the Randroids espouse such a philosophy.
She thought the only type of moral relationships were win-win relationships - "I can only get mine when you get yours".
Thanks for the laugh.
SOME US theaters pulled the plug.
"Some"? The theaters that pulled the plug represent the vast majority of theaters in the country.
Heck, they could have gotten dozens of smaller distributors, looking to make a start! And small independent theaters would have jumped at the chance to show something the big corporations would not.
Except even independent theaters pulled the movie as well.
Perhaps read the novel and learn something of the philosophy before criticising it.
I'm pretty sure everyone already knows plenty about the "I've got mine so fuck you" philosophy of the Randroids. If I wanted to read juvenile fiction to bore myself some day, I'd just read a Stephanie Meyer novel. At least she eventually gets to the point.
Will they be passing around the drugs you take on the island as well?
Sony Pictures is a US corporation.
+5 funny.
Are you new to planet earth and the way the movie companies work?