James Franco and his LIPS !!!

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/asia/us-links-north-korea-to-sony-hacking.html

damn you NK, an attack on Franco is an attack on all of america!

Just tell me who to invade.

Clearly Rogan and Franco should make a movie in which they play a pair of Hollywood stars (maybe as themselves?) who get recruited by North Korea to hack into Sony. They assemble a ragtag band of misfits - Hill, McBride, Baruchel, et al. - who get flown to NK and treated like royalty, all while desperately clinging to the ruse (under penalty of death) that they are also expert hackers. Their solution at the end is to convince a studio (Sony?) to make an intentionally shitty movie about Franco and Rogan assassinating Dear Leader, and then Sony has to cancel its release after getting "hacked" and threatened by North Korea. Rogan and Franco are hailed by heroes by North Korea and sent home. Dennis Rodman cameos.

NK won't know what hit them. It'll be a meta rope-a-dope.

Would watch

great now I guess I'll be seeing Selma on Christmas Day #thanksobama

Guy Fieri plays himself in this

come friendly bombs and fall on guy fieri

there's a fully functional McDonald's on Guy Fieri that is not open to the public

This is the End managed to have a religious plot where the Fundamnetalists were pretty much right about the rapture and Heaven and all. So maybe this one should've been from N. Korea's worldview.

except that in This is the End to get to heaven you just had to be a decent person, as opposed to confessing your sins/accepting christ as your savior. Jesus is never mentioned. Oddly the fact that Rogen and Baruchel are both Jewish is also never mentioned.

Richard Brody (SPOILERS):

"That climactic scene is the one that was at the center of controversy between the film's directors and its producers at Sony. The shell that's launched from the tank flies toward Kim's helicopter in super-slow motion. When the shell strikes, the helicopter bursts into flames (again, in slow motion). Then there's a cut to Kim, whose countdown is about to reach zero. What results is a moment of grotesque comedy that shocked me with its gory audacity: the wave of heat and shock makes Kim's face waver—then his hair, eyebrows, and even skin begin to catch fire. Apparently, Rogen and Goldberg had gone further: the New York Times reports that Kazuo Hirai, Sony's C.E.O., 'insisted over the summer that a scene in which Mr. Kim's head explodes when hit by a tank shell be toned down to remove images of flaming hair and chunks of skull.' In the cut that I saw, at a press screening last week, there was a little bit of flaming hair and even flaming flesh—but no chunks of skull or other mutilations."

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/interview-handles-assassination-kim-jong-un

i don't see why this was considered provocative by north-korea?

I'm mystified that NK had the competence/resources to successfully pull this off, it's crazy

Clearly Rogan and Franco should make a movie in which they play a pair of Hollywood stars (maybe as themselves?) who get recruited by North Korea to hack into Sony. They assemble a ragtag band of misfits - Hill, McBride, Baruchel, et al. - who get flown to NK and treated like royalty, all while desperately clinging to the ruse (under penalty of death) that they are also expert hackers. Their solution at the end is to convince a studio (Sony?) to make an intentionally shitty movie about Franco and Rogan assassinating Dear Leader, and then Sony has to cancel its release after getting "hacked" and threatened by North Korea. Rogan and Franco are hailed by heroes by North Korea and sent home. Dennis Rodman cameos.

NK won't know what hit them. It'll be a meta rope-a-dope.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 9:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

With "The Interview" as a DVD extra, natch

Carrell NK movie also cancelled now

I wonder how gleeful Hitler would've been if he'd been able to stop To Be or Not to Be (not that either of these movies were gonna be as good but still)

or if Sadaam could've stopped Naked Gun

well hitler at least could content himself with other victories, for a while

"we'll always have Poland"

or if the mob, the CIA, the Pentagon and the Mafia could've stopped JFK

lil bit of redundancy there -- I meant "the mob of queers who hung with Clay Shaw"

So we can't even mention North Korea in a movie now?

On the contrary, I just heard they gave the green light to Dennis Rodman's remake of Lost Horizon with NK as a stand-in for Shangri-La.

If Bush could've stopped Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay...

Carell starring in a paranoid spy thriller sounds like a great idea, though.

first they came for james franco, and i did nothing

what is the likelihood of this kind of thing happening more often

56%

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says evidence shows the hack against Sony Pictures was carried out by a "sophisticated actor" with "malicious intent."

https://33.media.tumblr.com/c94fd49646ddaf1e0d03ee889a6d5da0/tumblr_mzd8g0mIHY1qft49to1_500.gif

I'm mystified that NK had the competence/resources to successfully pull this off, it's crazy

Not crazy. If the NK military/science establishment can build nuclear weapons and fairly advanced missiles, they can master the intricacies of hacking Sony.

it's my understanding that their nuclear/missile capability was more or less handed to them by external actors though. I suppose the same could have happened here.

China does not want a unified Korean peninsula, so that's a reasonable conjecture.

this is fucked up

reporting on the WH presser today about the hack says they "declined to blame" (or some such phrase) NK for the attack

unwillingness to jeopardize ongoing investigations etc

how much more jeopardizeable can they be

more skepticism

http://mashable.com/2014/12/18/nortk-korea-sony-hackers-redux/

meanwhile this reuters journalist gets very sloppy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/18/us-response-sony-hack_n_6349066.html

Hackers who said they were incensed by a film on the fictional assassination of North Korea's leader attacked Sony Corp last month, leaking documents that drew global headlines and distributing unreleased films on the Internet. It appeared to be an unprecedented victory for Pyongyang and its abilities to wage cyber warfare.

sorry to get all media critic in your franco thread

only allowed if you post requisite number of hot Franco mouth posts

the hack says they "declined to blame"

i read "the hack" as the press secretary

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/25/7281097/sony-pictures-hackers-say-they-want-equality-worked-with-staff-to-break-in

The hackers who took down Sony Pictures' computer systems yesterday say that they are working for "equality" and suggest that their attack was assisted or carried out by Sony employees. In an email responding to inquiries from The Verge, a person identifying as one of the hackers writes, "We Want equality [sic]. Sony doesn't. It's an upward battle." The hackers' goals remain unclear, but they used the attack yesterday to specifically call out Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, referring to him as a "criminal" in a tweet.

The hackers claim to have taken sensitive internal data from Sony. In an email from an address associated with the hack, a hacker who identified as "lena" was vague about how the attack was carried out. "Sony doesn't lock their doors, physically, so we worked with other staff with similar interests to get in," lena writes. "Im sorry I can't say more, safety for our team is important [sic]." The email address in question is an open account, which allows anyone to send mail from it without entering a password. That means it's possible the message was sent by someone with no relation to the attack itself. Still, because the address was included in the initial .zip file and lena identified as part of the group behind the attack, the message raises real questions about the political motives behind Sony's recent troubles. The account has also sent similar messages to other outlets, suggesting a consistent voice.

haven't tons of large companies/organizations/governments been hacked by lone skilled teenagers and groups of anonymous message board assholes by now? it doesn't seem like an incredibly precious and rare accomplishment anymore, just a question of whether someone who can do it has the motivation to go after a particular target.

i don't get why public sentiment on who was behind the hacks suddenly reversed course the second television reporters had anonymous "U.S. intelligence sources" saying that it's "believed to be" north korea

an extremely untrustworthy group of people

wait, reversed course from what to what? seems like NK has been the consensus culprit all along

idk from what i could tell there was a growing consensus of "it was probably not north korea" with the wired article being the crest of that wave

...the hack against Sony Pictures was carried out by a "sophisticated actor"...

...a hacker who identified as "lena"...

and we know the hacker's are in contact with entertainment news websites...

is there no end to her crimes

i support sony's decision to cancel the movie. didn't it already almost fuck up some diplomatic negotiation with japan involving the return of political prisoners?

Hackers connected to the Sony break in released a new statement on Thursday morning: ITS ABOUT ETHICS IN GAMES JOURNALISM

cryptic..

guys I just loaded the D.I. Go Pop CD into my discman and pressed play and "never gonna give you up" started playing??