Sony, Cyberterrorism and the ridiculous

The Sony HQ

Read the CNN article with the transcript from Obama's last news conference for 2014. Mr. Obama threatened to retaliate for the cyberattack against Sony directly addressing North Korea. Sony is a Japanese cooperation and one wonder why the USA starts to tote arms when the matter really is outside of its jurisdiction. Well, the movie itself is an all-American product out of Hollywood even though Sony is the owner of the immaterial and probably planned to become the North Korea Block Buster during the up-coming holiday season in the US, which is North-American business. Obama also criticized Sony for withdrawing the movie but recognized that Sony is a private corporation with liabilities to its stockholders, he said that he hoped Sony had talked to him before making the decision. How would the world look if private corporations started to call the President of the USA when a sudden problem arises? We already have an insane lobby, many times against consumer interest and the environment but matters like this one is of completely different nature and I believe the president of the USA knows that it would be too much for him to handle.

I do not agree to make ridicule of nations and state leaders in the "Rest Of the World", no matter how bad we see them as it is like pouring gasoline over a burning fire, making people in those nations even more hateful and making our own children looking down on others. To ridicule something or somebody only serve to grow divide and hate. The USA has history of doing this starting with Chaplin's movie, the Dictator and it has continued through the years of up to the "Interview" of today. If you just started thinking about it you imagine how much damage Hollywood has done to the relations between nations and people with the US government as the cheerleader. Small "innocent" things like implying how undereducated and stupid people are in Latin America or even the "stupid blonde" of Sweden. Just stop banging your chest and insulting the rest of US, you can do better, could you? With all those intelligent people you have in your "think-tanks".

Mr Obama also implied the hackers have a leg up and we all believe so, we, professionals in the business of informatics not being affiliated to a government agency, agree and welcome that situation even when attacks affect ourselves. If that day comes when a government like the one of the USA succeeded in stymieing hacking, freedom of speech and thought would not exist anymore. Government control over individuals of societies would be absolute with a world similar to what is envisioned in the novel 1984. Imagine one single government being able to follow or "hack" into the privacy of any individual on planet earth.

It is said that the hacker of Sony was voicing a general threat to "strike" any defiant movie theater intending to show the movie. It is said in the press that FBI already traced the hack to North Korea. Is it really plausible that North Korean terrorism would reach individual theaters in the USA by bombs or shoot-outs, don't think so as it is so much easier to follow a North Korean wannabe terrorist on the grounds of the "Homeland" and I believe there are few, that there are no North Korean "sleeper" cells in the US that can do any physical damage.

Now, who is allowed to spy on or hack the world - without being retaliated or having consequences of severed business? Do you remember or heard of the "Stuxnet" virus that destroyed around 1000 uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran's nuclear program to a cost of several billions of dollars and causing a 2 year delay in Iran’s program to produce fuel for their reactors? You may applaud this avant-garde cyber-attack by the US and Israeli government agencies (Siemens, the producer of the equipment as well as a Finnish company was in it too) as Iran is an evil rogue state, but what if it happened to you or your country? Or the wire-tapping of the German chancellor Angela Merkel's cell-phone (and other Germans), the wire-tapping of the Brazilian president Dilma Rouseff cell-phone (and other Brazilians), and you could just imagine who wasn't wire-tapped. Oh, this is just business as usual for the US having the right to punish and retaliate any other nation doing it to the US or US interests.

This is a plea to US politicians and "think-tanks" to start thinking in a less cold-world and world controlling fashion than what you are doing and ever did. Could you consider and intervene to stop using media (press and Hollywood) to ridicule the rest of us on this planet, the "ROW", whatever stupid, undereducated and bad we are? Your conduct has so far been an egoistic idea to provide for the people of the "promised land", yourself.

Don't play hardball with us, I think the rest of us would love you more or listen better during a game of soft-ball. If you want my support, don't spy on me, talk to me. #sonyhack #sony #theinterview #kimjongun #northkorea #nsa #cia #obama #iran #mossad #israel #stuxnet