Re:North Korean Spy to Be Charged in Sony Pictures Hacking
by dsfyu404ed on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:31PM
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>And more importantly, if they had that kind of access to outside information, how do they not know about the atrocities they are involved in
Nation state hacking is like being one of the guys in a missile silo. Your job is to maintain the capability to hurt your enemy. You rarely actually do it though. You just hack media companies and fire off test missiles once in awhile. It's much easier to sleep at night being the guy who does that than being the guy who carts people's families off to the gulag or being the NSA analyst who has to go dig up dirt on politicians.
Nation state hacking is like being one of the guys in a missile silo. Your job is to maintain the capability to hurt your enemy. You rarely actually do it though. You just hack media companies and fire off test missiles once in awhile. It's much easier to sleep at night being the guy who does that than being the guy who carts people's families off to the gulag or being the NSA analyst who has to go dig up dirt on politicians.