while not every car scale, Sony hack was blamed on NK. I remember no official action though. Seems that everybody hacking everybody is just an implicitly accepted practice these days.
There were serious repercussions to the Chinese hacking US companies, including a US Justice dept indictment, Google pulling out of China, and publicly embarrassing the Chinese Government.
>Seems that everybody hacking everybody is just an implicitly accepted practice these days.
My view is that:
1. this area is so new, no one knows what the limits should be (disagreements even within governments and agencies),
2. but that there are red lines,
3. that it is likely that the US and other actors have crossed a few of them,
4. and that the world is in the process of reacting and establishing norms of behavior.
With no proof showed to the public.And Obama put another set of sanctions on north korea as a result of this.
This episode is no different from the WMDs in Irak during Bush era. At least Bush tried to make a case. Here no case,no smoking gun,just the Obama administration saying NK did it, but what is frightening is the total absence of reaction from the american people.NK is bad, but what the Obama administration did is bad too. Even though, again, NK government is horrible, what happened here is just frightening. Because tomorrow it can be country B or D that did nothing yet gets sanctions from US because the US administration said it did something?
