| Now that anti-prohibition measures are passing in various states - posing a threat to the feds' cash cow (the "War on Drugs") - the feds are now trying to stir up nonsense over supposed "cybercrime". The intrusion in this case was most likely done by an insider, the feds themselves, or a hacktivist group. The feds routinely break into private systems and are known to go to great lengths to construct elaborate string operations [1]. The timing of the press release is highly suspect. An investigation into an international security breach can take months or years. The feds rarely comment conclusively at the outset because such statements can compromise the investigation. They've provided no evidence whatsoever to support their claims. Tipping off the purported culprit in this way by claiming to have identified their tell-tale attack signature would make it harder to track future breaches. (It's like publicly announcing that a suspect's phone is being tapped.) This press release violates standard operating procedure. And why haven't the feds filed charges if the investigation is all "wrapped-up"? If a foreign nation was involved, there's no evidence that's the case. NK has been the subject of scathing media criticism in the west for years, but other critics weren't targeted in this way. As others have pointed out [2], the intruders initially demanded a cash ransom. The theory that the attack was linked to a movie release was originated and spread by the media. [1] "The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terror" - http://trevoraaronson.com/book/ [2] http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/fbi-north-korea-to-blame-... |