[doctorpangloss]

I don't know, the Sony hacks were pretty comprehensive. Why not Disney? Because of some aspirations about imagineers and giant corporations or whatever? They aren't software specialists. The software they sold to other people, like their games business, was kind of a disaster. They don't compete on software.

> Its pretty standard in the industry to only store pre-release content on airgapped systems.

Unreleased narrative content isn't actually valuable, so nobody actually cares. I mean of course they say it's valuable. But there are aspects of value that are objective, and I am saying objectively, not in some aspirational sense, it's not valuable. And anyway, surely, how did such pre-release content get on such airgapped systems? They have tens of thousands of vendors, and those people talk, and they have ordinary desktop computers. They make mistakes all the time. It doesn't really matter.

Their business communications are valuable. So people hacked that.

I understand there is a lot of gestural, performative security measures in the industry, I belong to it. At the end of the day, Disney (Hollywood) asks too much from IT for too little money, does not attract talent comparable to a middle-of-the-road Series A startup in San Francisco, and is led by people who don't value technology (on average).

[dagmx]

The Sony hacks were definitely not comprehensive. They affected the core company but all subsidiaries were left alone.

Source: I was an employee at the time and my only data leaked was HR data sent to the primary company.

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> does not attract talent comparable to a middle-of-the-road Series A startup in San Francisco

LOL.

If you think that this should be the yard stick, you certainly think too highly of the tech industry, to the point of delusion.

SV VC startup land is the exception that proves the rule. It unfortunately gives everyone here a massively overinflated sense of worth.

“Everyone gets paid exactly what they’re worth”, “market forces”, blah blah blah. But the reality is that you just won’t find nearly as much easy, dumb money anywhere else. Hearing kids that’ve been spoiled by the SV startup scene whinge here about things that are completely typical of even the most cushy tech jobs jobs ANYWHERE ELSE is so telling.