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The New York Times is reporting the FBI's director is publicly stating that the bureau has no doubt the North Koreans are behind the Sony hacking attack:
James B. Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said on Wednesday that no one should doubt that the North Korean government was behind the destructive attack on Sony’s computer network last fall.
Mr. Comey said he had “high confidence” in the F.B.I.’s quick determination that North Korea was behind the attack. He said skeptics in the Internet security world who have suggested other theories for who was responsible did not have all the information he does.
The F.B.I. director said national security concerns limited just how far law enforcement officials could go in revealing evidence that points to North Korea. But at a conference on cybersecurity in New York, Mr. Comey offered some of the evidence the F.B.I. had found.
One of the telltale pieces of evidence, he said, were a few I.P., or Internet Protocol, addresses that could be traced directly to North Korea. Mr. Comey said members of the group claiming responsibility for the hacking — Guardians of Peace — did a good job concealing their identities but slipped up in some cases.
"They used proxy servers to disguise” the trail of evidence, Mr. Comey said. “But sometimes they got sloppy.”
Should we believe him? After all, he is the FBI director, not exactly a source of truthful information.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday January 08 2015, @02:06PM
There are a whole bunch of good reasons for the FBI not to disclose certain kinds of information, such as the identities of informants whose lives would be at risk were their names to be made public.
But for not the President, but the Commander-in-Chief to threaten retalation, is to threaten an act of war. To actually carry out such retaliation, is actual warfare.
Suppose NK wasn't _really_ behind this, or alternatively, suppose that North Korean people pulled it off, but by working alone, on their own initiative and not on behalf of the government of the DPRK. While North Korean residents would not have the means to pull this off without the government's knowledge, their have been many North Korean citizens who have left the country, whether they defected, got permission to emigrate, are in other countries that trade with the DPRK - it sells missile parts all over the world.
If this wasn't an act of official North Korean government policy, then the US either has, or will carry out a unilateral, unprovoked attack against completely innocent people. The DPRK would be completely within its rights to retaliate. Consider the Seoul is only thirty miles from the DMZ, South Korea is full of US troops and US citizens, and that NK has enough short-range missiles to make a smoking crater of the South Korean capital as well as a whole bunch of American military bases.
If the DPRK really is behind this, then the American public deserves to know why the FBI thinks so. There are all kinds of ways they could demonstrate that without putting human lives at risk.
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