CBS News reports that “cybersecurity experts are questioning the FBI’s claim that North Korea is responsible for the hack that crippled Sony Pictures.” A cybersecurity executive told CBS News his company “has data” that casts doubt on the FBI’s findings. He claims Sony was “nuked from the inside” by an ex-employee with ties to a prominent hacker group and added, “We are very confident that this was not an attack master-minded by North Korea.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-the-fbi-get-it-wrong-on-north-korea/
To which I say, so what? Smack ’em down anyway. They’ve got it coming — if not for this, then for something else.
I learned this principle many years ago, in childhood, when my father spanked me one day. “What was that for?” I demanded. He described the offense. “I didn’t do it,” I said. “Fred did.” (Fred was my brother. That’s not his real name. I’ve changed his name to protect the guilty.) “Well,” Dad replied, “then that’s for what I didn’t catch you doing.”
He had a point. Like all boys, I did things, and got away with a lot of them. A rational argument can be made for imposing blanket sanctions on obviously guilty parties.
With North Korea, the problem is finding a punishment to fit their crimes, because shutting down their internet access for a few hours is a trivial response to their slave labor camps and crimes against humanity. I’m not suggesting or implying anything in particular. Please feel free to post your ideas in the comment box.