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China a likely factor in North Korea cyber prowess: experts

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You stay classy, China.

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As far as i know, a group calling themselves "Gator League" Have taken credit for N. Korea's internet outage. If China had been responsible, then they probably would have shut it off completely, rather than just a few websites.

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Of course China had their hand in the mix. It would have been foolish to think that NK did this all alone.

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How about some actual evidence rather than, "many experts believe . . . "

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How about some actual evidence rather than, "many experts believe . . . "

Agree.

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How about some actual evidence rather than, "many experts believe . . . "

There were quite a few reports of solid NSA and CIA intel that China did have a part in attack.

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There were quite a few reports of solid NSA and CIA intel that China did have a part in attack.

Why should we trust them, uh?

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Man, some people just WANT it to be North Korea SO SO BADLY. Now they are straining their brains to think of ways the very NOT computer savvy North Koreans could have possibly pulled this off. They don't want to look like idiots who jumped the gun and railed and feared about North Korea the cyber bully.

Yeah, yeah, whatever.

They also act like this is the first time Sony got hacked ever. So they don't even have to address the idea that today's hacker might be the same as before.

Lame. Its so much more likely it was an inside job. And if you despise Sony as much as I despise Sony and have any clue why people would despise that greedy leviathan then you might begin to understand why an employee might do this.

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Its so much more likely it was an inside job.

Maybe, an inside job made by the Americans? They can hurt North Korea, China and Sony at the same time. How convenient. There are so many possibilities...

Moderator: Please stop using the discussion board to post anti-American rants.

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Many nations have cyber warfare team in operation. It's just a matter of what degree and nature of the operation. It doesn't take smart Alex to know that communist China has been using this weapon to catch up with the West through illegal means from Shanghai. N.Korea, China, Russia, are very much in it as they protect Snowden for the game changer. Just wondering when the left wing's sympathizer on this blog will join hands with Chinese spies in having fun blogging from China or Iran instead of Japan! China views N.Korea as dogs on the leash, including the <1% of leadership in N.Korea.

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Scarily enough NK actually does have a democratic voting system... hahahahahahha!

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Of course China had a hand in it. Just like the gays are responsible for the storms.

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The U.S. has to justify it 'Pivot to Asia' somehow

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@Tim

Problem is with that analogy is that from the investigation all of the codes that were found to gain access to the Sony sites were all in Hangul. There is only one country that uses it and that is Korea. Now South Korea doesn't have a problem with Sony, not up their ally and they would have NO reason to do something like that, on the other hand NK and making fun of assassinating Kim, the main Character looks like Kim, you tell me. It's already been established that it was the NK.

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all of the codes that were found to gain access to the Sony sites were all in Hangul.

That's not actually true. Some parts had Hangul apparently. And it wouldn't have been the code - the code would be in whatever programming language it was using. It would have been the comments in the code that were in Hangul. And any programmer/hacker can read the code to see what it is doing without needing the comments, so the code with Hangul comments could have been written by Koreans originally, but that doesn't mean it was Koreans who used it for the hack.

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This is just movie data files. So, if you don't have any software language in Your computer, nothing to worry. Just watch movie without compilers. In USA, people can watch a movie on TV, computer, tabloid and cellphone same time. Our local LEA advice not to watch movie while driving. Used to be Don;t text while driving warning. If needed to use software, the compiker in that laqnguage is used to create ,exe files/ You can use commercial picure makers to create your manga games if you want.

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That's not actually true. Some parts had Hangul apparently.

Strange, give it up, Of course it's true. I seriously doubt you know more then the NSA or CIA or you know something they don't? If so, please go to the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and the cable outlets to let them all know, please.

And it wouldn't have been the code - the code would be in whatever programming language it was using. It would have been the comments in the code that were in Hangul. And any programmer/hacker can read the code to see what it is doing without needing the comments, so the code with Hangul comments could have been written by Koreans originally, but that doesn't mean it was Koreans who used it for the hack.

Nor does it rule them out.

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That's not actually true. Some parts had Hangul apparently.

Strange, give it up, Of course it's true.

No, it's not. It was announced at the time of the hack that there was some korean code, not all of it.

Nor does it rule them out.

And nor does it mean it's them. You seem to set the bar pretty low for the presumption of guilt. I suppose you also believed there were WMDs in Iraq.

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No, it's not. It was announced at the time of the hack that there was some korean code, not all of it.

Yeah, ok.

And nor does it mean it's them.

No, it was the Algerians.

You seem to set the bar pretty low for the presumption of guilt. I suppose you also believed there were WMDs in Iraq.

Of course not, I was wrong to believe the CIA and the NSA know more than you, silly me. ROFL

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