[coding4all]

I still have a hard time believing NK did this without any definitive evidence.

Wasn't it last December that NK was sending fax messages to communicate with SK? Now they can download Terabytes from Sony without anyone noticing?

[yourad_io]

This. Not only for the technical capabilities (they could have hired someone else, yada yada), but especially for the chronology of the Interview/NK link. The first communications from the hackers addressed Sony execs while referring to "their demands", without naming them.

The NK/Interview link came out of nowhere and the group seemed to just go along with it. If this isn't Media Hyping, I don't know what is. Sony hacked for the nth time - barely newsworthy by now. Sony cyberattacked by cyberterrorists and your real-world-kids possibly in very grave danger from a cyberbomb in a theater - NewsGold(tm).

Can everyone stop using the NK link as a fact in this case? Thanks.

PS: In case you missed it, NK denied involvement in this early on. Usually this wouldn't mean much (a state's denials? please) but remember who we're talking about here! When has NK passed up an opportunity to display their superiority?

[spb]

My guess is that it was somebody in Tunisia: https://www.reddit.com/r/MarkMyWords/comments/2pv2rk/mmw_if_...

[chrischen]

They can use money to hire hackers. In fact, most of the world operates this way.

[jrockway]

I also feel that it would be super-easy to just nullroute North Korea and be done with this "state sponsored terrorism" in about three seconds.

[briandear]

Many NK attacks also originate in China.. Many Chinese hacks also originate in China come to think of it..

[Robadob]

Early evidence suggested that one of the data dumps was carried out from a hotel in Thailand, so cutting off NK's internet wouldn't help protect from that much.