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Re:FBI Director: Sony’s ‘Sloppy’ North Korean Hackers Reveal... by rgbrenner on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @03:49PM (#8853217)
N. Korea also offered to send personnel to help the FBI in the attack investigation, which is extremely uncharacteristic of N. Korea to say the least

They offered to help investigate the Cheonan after they sunk it. So it's really not uncharacteristic.

And why do you have attack in quotes? Do you believe Sony wasn't actually attacked?

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Re:FBI Director: Sony’s ‘Sloppy’ North Korean Hackers Reveal... by Alupis on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @04:02PM (#8853283)
> And why do you have attack in quotes? Do you believe Sony wasn't actually attacked?

No, I think it's plenty clear that they were. It's just that "attack" has a certain stigma to it, and what happened to Sony was not some grand attack, but rather a run-of-the-mill hack against a company with extremely poor security.

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