Could someone clarify for me?
Could someone clarify for me? I was under the impression that Sony was an international company based in Japan. Why then does it seem that this incident is being presented as an American problem? Or is that just because our news reporting sometimes skews things a bit? Or did the hackers exclusively poke around and attack just servers physically based inside the U.S., or only threaten movie-goers in the US, or something I haven't bothered to pay attention to that very particularly makes it a US issue? I'm just curious, because I feel like I've missed something.
In other news: Americans are self-centered assholes.
ReplyDeleteWell, I was kind of hoping I'd missed something, like maybe we have the only super-awesome DC/Marvel Cyber Command in the entire world, or something. I mean, it's possible.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been following this closely, but I've observed two things:
ReplyDelete1) Very serious people (in terms of demeanor, like several policy and law blogs I read, and some serious newspapers; and in terms of position, like President Obama and the FBI) are, if not describing this as an attack on the United States, at least describing it as something to which the United States is entitled to respond to.
2) But I have yet to see a simple factual basis for that stance.
I am clearly missing something, too. I suspect it has to deal with Japan's status as an ally that theoretically has no military or response capabilities, combined with (I suspect, I don't know) some of the targetted hardware being housed in the United States, and/or some of the employees being in the United States, and certainly the theater threats being in the United States.
In any case, the traditional news coverage on this whole extended escapade has been shamefully poor. But even the specialty blogs seem confused.
Ok, I don't feel like quite such an idiot, then.
ReplyDeleteSony Pictures (a subsidiary of Sony which, indeed is a Japanese company) is an American company.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't a worldwide simultaneous release picture, so anywhere else isn't even close to having the problem. Our local distributor (not Sony, by the way, independent of them) still has it slated for a February release and have said they don't know yet what they'll do.
ReplyDeleteAlso the threats were, I think, specific to the U.S.? But that could be skewed reporting again.
The computers that were targeted, according to Bloomberg, were in Culver City, CA.
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