Monday, December 22, 2014

Sony Hack: Who's Behind the Curtain?

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The news regarding the cyber-attack against Sony has blanketed not only the entertainment news programs, but all of the media. . . and they all have danced around the real questions we should be asking.  The North Koreans don't have the technical expertise to pull off this kind of cyber-attack, so who helped them?  How does the Sony cyber-attack connect with other attacks against government systems?  Where is all of this leading us to in regards to the changing of the guards on the global political stage?  I believe this is only the beginning.

The pudgy dictator, Kim Jong Un, has called for a probe into the cyber-attack, denying his country's involvement.  The Un-dictator's move is an intelligent one, because the biased American liberal left media wants badly to shift its eyes away from North Korea, and since the northern half of the Korean Penninsula doesn't have the ability to conduct the kind of cyber-attack we saw against Sony, nothing will be found against them.  It may have been "for" North Korea, but the attack was definitely not "by" North Korea.

Shockingly, President Barack Obama agrees that Sony made a mistake pulling their movie, "The Interview," from premiering in theaters (and will not be available for purchase either) under pressure from North Korea and the hackers, and he has indicated that he believes North Korea is connected to the hacking of Sony Pictures.  In response, North Korea has made a threat they may strike the White House if Obama does not rescind his accusations.

We are used to North Korea making threats, and we tend to believe nothing will become of it, but it is definitely something to keep an eye on. . . just in case.

In the end, the outside world has now gotten to the point where they are deciding for us what movies are watchable.  Dictators and tyrants can now silence the American media by simply threatening it.  Mitt Romney suggested that Sony release the movie, The Interview, for free online.  That would definitely be a major poke in the pudgy dictator's eye.

But, is this only about North Korea?  Who was really behind the hacking of Sony?  A bunch of nerds hidden in their mother's basement?  Or was it Russia, China, Iran, or some other country that has decided that they hate the Great Satan?

Is their goal of committing “Death to America!” extending to strategies in the world of technology?  Is cyber-war the true path to our destruction?

While we fight with all of these "enemies" in nuclear negotiations, these countries are developing technological and scientific skills.  We don't seem to care about it, either.  After all, what does Obama have to worry about?  He's too busy making friends with communist Cuba to worry about cyber attacks by what he probably considers the JV teams of technology.

If we are crippled in a cyber war, however, understand that a conventional war, or perhaps a nuclear war, will soon follow, and our woes will be more than whether or not we can get the opportunity to watch a comedy that focuses on the assassination of an overweight dictator.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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