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Obama on hack: dictators can’t impose censorship in the U.S.
Hours after the FBI fingered North Korea as responsible for the cyber attack on Sony, President Obama spoke at his year-end news conference. The first question asked was regarding the Sony hack and his response to the news of North Korea’s involvement. The president spoke forcefully and strongly about Sony’s decision to pull the movie,…
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FBI blames North Korea for Sony hack
The FBI has blamed North Korea for the massive cyber attack on Sony. Here’s the agency’s statement in full: Today, the FBI would like to provide an update on the status of our investigation into the cyber attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). In late November, SPE confirmed that it was the victim of a cyber…
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Harsh reaction follows Sony’s canceling of “The Interview”
A day after Sony said it would not be releasing “The Interview” movie in theaters, on DVDs or online, reaction from Hollywood, politicians and TV commentators in the U.S. has been harsh. The mood was perhaps summed up best by Rob Lowe: Wow. Everyone caved. The hackers won. An utter and complete victory for them.…
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Sony pulls ‘The Interview’
So much for standing up to terrorists. Bowing to the demands of hackers and handing them a major victory, Sony said Wednesday that it is pulling “The Interview” from movie theaters. The movie, which was due to open on December 25, follows two American showbiz reporters offered the chance to interview Kim Jong Un. Before they…
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Pyongyang breaks silence on Sony hack
Two weeks after computers at Sony Pictures were taken offline by a major hack and just over a week since North Korea was mentioned as a suspect, the country’s state media has commented for the first time and denied any involvement in the attack. In a report on Sunday, the Korean Central News Agency carried…
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Did North Korea hack Sony? Probably Not
It’s a compelling story. A month away from the release of Seth Rogen’s new movie “The Interview,” in which he plays a celebrity reporter sent to North Korea to interview Kim Jong Un and kill him, North Korea is so annoyed at the film that it has hacked into Sony Pictures and threatened to release corporate secrets. It’s also most…
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Japanese flat-screen TVs on evening news
North Korea’s main evening news bulletin reported on Saturday evening about big-screen Japanese televisions. The report was contained as one of the brief foreign news items sometimes included at the end of the program and followed reports about a speech made by the Russian foreign minister at the UN General Assembly and a protest in…
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China modernized North Korea’s TV news
The sudden refresh of North Korea’s staid state TV evening news appears be thanks to help from China’s state TV broadcaster. China Central Television, the government-run broadcaster of China, donated 5 million yuan (about US$800,000) of equipment to North Korea’s Korea Central Television to help improve its news broadcasts, according to a Chinese news report. There…
