The Interview may be airing, but the Sony hacking case is not over.
After allegations of South Korea's involvement in the case and many, many announcements from both sides, some are now claiming that this was all a well-planned hoax. In an article by Marc Rogers, an expert on internet security, he talks about hackers who managed to fool everyone and an FBI that simply became disgraced by announcing the results of a cursory investigation.
Specifically, he states: 1. The hackers did not initially connect the Sony affair to the movie Interview. They only did so after some in the media began to report it and suspect it. 2. They threw away all the data they managed to hack. Rogers wonders how it is possible for a state with such a large propaganda system to do something like this. Whoever did the hacking, he says, simply wanted to embarrass the company. And they succeeded. 3. Blaming South Korea was the most convenient scenario for both the company and the security team to patch up the issue. 4. It is also just as convenient for the government to pass new, stricter laws on censorship and surveillance. 5. Both the paths used and the passwords show that whoever wrote the code knew very well the architecture of Sony's network. Of course, South Korea could find all this, he says, but it's probably some former employee there who's just really pissed off with the company.
Source: tro-ma-ktiko.gr
