Cybersecurity experts challenge FBI's N. Korea accusations
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Cybersecurity experts looking at the FBI’s explanation for why North Korea was behind the Sony hack say the logic keeps coming up short, as they increasingly question whether someone else could be behind one of the worst hacks in U.S. history.
These experts have called into question the timeline of the attack, aspects of the language used, and the capabilities of North Korea’s bandwidth. Some say the FBI was too quick to point the finger without looking further than the most obvious clues in the malware.
“For hackers that’s just brilliant. By blaming North Korea, the hackers have a carte blanche really,” said Jeffrey Carr, founder and CEO of Taia Global, a Seattle-based company that provides cybersecurity consultations to government agencies and private companies. “I’m not aware of this ever being done before. They’ve successfully ripped apart a multinational corporation. They successfully got them to shut down a movie. And to top that off they’ve convinced the FBI and NSA that the North Korean government is responsible. If I was them, I’d be popping Cristal.”
Full article here. A fun read. It's been so easy every goddam time for the US govt to convince the gullible mass they need to go to war, they don't even try to make it sound convincing anymore.
China is mad at N.Korea. So I believe its N.Korea. The security experts are right to be skeptical but they dont have the same information. At this point, these experts dont have enough information to be challenging the US and Chinese government officials.
