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Frank Cox
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From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 12-18-2014 10:35 AM
Even before the 9/11 stuff, I'm sure that terrorism and riots were excluded from my insurance coverage. I don't think insurance coverage for that sort of thing is available around here at any price, though I've never actually asked about getting it.
Due to the anonymous nature of this whole malicious hacking thing, anyone could claim to be a representative of the supposed group and make any demands that he chose to make. By and large, the recipient of the demand is unable to distinguish between a "legitimate" terrorist and a kid with nothing but a big mouth and a computer keyboard.
It's now off-limits to make a movie about North Korea:
North Korea-Based Thriller With Gore Verbinski And Steve Carell Canceled
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EXCLUSIVE: The chilling effect of the Sony Pictures hack and terrorist threats against The Interview are reverberating. New Regency has scrapped another project that was to be set in North Korea. The untitled thriller, set up in October, was being developed by director Gore Verbinski as a star vehicle for Foxcatcher star Steve Carell. The paranoid thriller written by Steve Conrad was going to start production in March. Insiders tell me that under the current circumstances, it just makes no sense to move forward. The location won’t be transplanted. Fox declined to distribute it, per a spokesman.
Regency has other movies with Verbinski as part of a multiyear, multipicture deal, and they will focus on them. He moves on to A Cure For Wellness, an elevated horror film written by Revolutionary Road scribe Justin Haythe, and Passengers. There also is a large-scale action comedy scripted by Conrad. The plan was to make three films in quick succession. Now they will make two that way.
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-18-2014 01:13 PM
Yup. That fat little turd has won. He now gets to dictate what we can and can't do over here. Gee, Kim, what else do you want us to do? Maybe Regal and AMC and Cinemark should put a picture of your face in at least one A-Frame in every theatre...how's that? Would that make you happy? We just want to get along. And maybe every Sony picture can open up with your picture which could then crossfade to the Sony or Columbia logo. How'd that be, you sweet little porker?
Boy, ISIS must be laughing their Isis asses off. They are figuring, hey, just send the American corporate executives an ill-worded threat that sounds like it was written by someone with a 5th grade education saying we will be VERY SORRY if we continue to send our American girls to school. Uh-oh...better keep our girls home. Just to be safe, maybe we should make all our women wear burkas too....I mean, what's the harm in being safe, right?
I swear, this is just too ironic for words; our most cherished and FUNDAMENTAL right and foundation of our way of life, or at least I THOUGHT it was -- Freedom of Speech -- and these spinless idiots just caved and gave it away with the blink of an eye.
Un-fu*ckin-believable.
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 12-18-2014 07:02 PM
quote: Bobby Henderson
The worst threat the movie theaters really faced from this was getting their d-cinema networks infiltrated.
Its actually a very real possibility.
Sony has VPN access to ALL of the locations where their equipment is in operation (Regal, AMC, etc) so it would be foolish to assume that the hackers don't already have access direct into any building with Sony projectors.
And of course it only takes a small oops in a theater firewall for them to then gain access to the ticketing network and customer's credit card numbers that were used to purchase tickets, etc. Remember most theaters have their POS systems directly tied into their TMS to import schedules. There's your link! (Not all links like that would be vulnerable. It just depends on how good the theater's IT guy really is and if the hackers are better.)
It's also entirely possible that the hackers could (or could have already) put in a "time bomb" on the equipment to "self-destruct" all at once across the country, completely neutralizing ANY movie from being played (at Sony equipment locations).
Now before anyone calls bullshit on those statements, remember that Sony has all of their equipment's root passwords well documented in their files. Also remember all of the remote logins to each and every theater is also documented in the Sony files. Judging by how many files the hackers obviously have, OF COURSE the hackers have full access into the projection equipment located in any theater sporting Sony projectors.
The Sony NOC doesn't just have a master firewall with hardware VPNs either. They use individual VPN logins to each location. Every theater would need to change their credentials and any theater that hasn't done that yet is potentially asking for it (assuming it isn't too late already).
The problem is, anyone with Sony projectors is most probably on a Sony VPN and Sony wants access to their equipment for VPF logging purposes. The only REASONABLE thing Sony can do in light of all this is to let the theaters alter their logins but NOT tell them the credentials yet (unless they have a failure and need them to remote in). In a month or whenever this has all calmed down, then they can give them the credentials.
Unfortunately the hackers have had plenty of time to setup a backdoor into all of the Sony TMS systems, so technically the internet would need to be disconnected at Sony sites (or the Sony TMS powered off) to ensure the hackers were locked out.
To make matters worse, an "oops" at one of the NOCs could further give them access to non-Sony locations as well. It just depends on how far the hackers want to take it, but finding security holes isn't all that difficult for a good hacker (which we must assume these guys are pretty good). The more theaters on a NOC, the better chance of an oops. In this specific scenario it's safe to say the Strong and Christie NOCs would be the easiest and first to hit since Strong is tied in with the Sony guys and Christie monitors Regal and AMC. That's an awful lot of possibilities for a simple oversight to have happened somewhere along the line in programming the firewall.
In a nutshell at any given moment the hackers could quite easily knock out the majority of US theater's projection systems with little effort. Happy Holidays indeed.
If I was Sony I would've already taken the ONE step they have against these guys, and that is to threaten them back. Before you start shaking your head as you read that, SUPPOSEDLY these guys don't want the movie The Interview to be seen. So on that assumption that means selling it to Netflix is a bad idea, as that would just bring about further wrath. Posting it for free on youtube for the world, again bad idea because that is exactly what they don't want to happen. The only way to STOP them from going further is to GUARANTEE them that the world will see the movie IF even one more batch of files is released or if any further attack happens in any form.
So immediately ship out a hard drive of The Interview to every single theater in America. It doesn't matter if they were allocated to play it or not, ship it! Tell the theaters to hold onto the drive, not to return it. Then wait. If another attack of some sort happens, let EVERY theater in the country play it FOR FREE for one day, then let the theater collect 100% of the box office take starting with day 2 for as long as they want to play it. Meanwhile post it on youtube and every other possible way to get it on the internet. Throw it as a free PPV on cable, etc, etc, etc. Heck, release the darn thing on network tv too! It's the only card they have to play.
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