Cyber Security experts have come out with strong arguments for why a group of disgruntled Ex Sony employees were most likely responsible for the hack. Further more, famous ex hacker Sabu (expert in the field) thinks that the volume of files stolen couldn’t have been downloaded by North Korea over the course of days without anyone noticing; it would have taken years and a bigger connection to the internet!
So why do so many people believe North Korea is the culprit. The hackers strategy, all be it an obvious one, was to frame someone else… but who would have believable motive?
North Korea accused the U.S. that allowing The Interview to be screened was “an act of war” at the U.N. a month before and this could have been the Hackers perfect opening to Frame someone. Many Cyber experts found it very strange that any country would approach cyber warfare by creating a catchy name like the “Guardians of Peace” and communicating demands to Sony directly. And even the Wall Street Journal was suspicious these messages were from North Korea. The FBI has made the weakest case that North Korea is responsible. and the FBI’s argument has been point by point refuted as being far from conclusive with writer Bruce Schneier saying “This sort of evidence is circumstantial at best. It’s easy to fake, and it’s even easier to interpret it wrong. In general, it’s a situation that rapidly devolves into storytelling, where analysts pick bits and pieces of the ‘evidence’ to suit the narrative they already have worked out in their heads.”
And yet the FBI still believes that it was North Korea because the Obama administration has already used the incident to justify North Korea’s presence on the list of countries who Sponsor Terrorism.
