Why meet demands of a blackmailer if there is no assumption that the demands will stop? North Korea making violent threats is nothing new. Nor have they shown the ability to project force into the United States, which again is a state with which they are at war. Yes, we like to portray North Korea as crazy but they rattle their sabers for specific reasons, typically to get food. Attacking US civilians stateside would be shooting themselves.
If it was your family, and you were working in a company that just got devastated by said folks making threats against you and your family, and they have the most detailed personal information about you, make bodily threats against your family, I don't think you'd be quite as quick to rationalize it like that.
I answered everything you asked, you just didn't like my answers.
No, you avoided it yet again - still grandstanding and arguing minor points (wrong on those as well, but whatever).
I asked a very specific question which you refused to answer, which is pretty much answering in itself. For a guy who keeps mouthing off about it, you sure aren't putting your money there, so to speak.
If YOUR family was the one being threatened by people who had just perpetrated what perhaps may turn out to be the biggest cybercrime ever, they had all your personal information, addresses, SS #'s, names of your children, medical records, untold amounts of data about you - and in your company email, you received multiple threats including direct threats to your family, would you be so quick "not to cave"?
It's easy to say other folks should make other decisions, since it's not your family that was threatened.
What exactly would they be in danger from? Physical harm (like the blowing up theaters threat) or just some hackers going after their personal information and trying to make it public. Did they have to quit their jobs to disavow Sony or just say they disavowed the company? If they just wanted a statement from me I'd probably comply just in case. If they wanted me to quit my job thats a whole different story.
Employees and their families were directly threatened, and in context with the other emails (which included statements that said if you live near a theater, you shouldn't stay home, and specifically invoked 9/11) was a lot more than "we'll share your personal info".
Not you in particular, but if it wasn't so scary I'd find it funny that other folks keep dismissing any threat like it was ludicrous - because no foreign entity has ever had individuals in the US who were here to commit violent acts...
It's sooooo easy for folks sitting safe at home in front of their computers to say "no big deal, man up!" but it would be far, far different if they were employees at Sony and were getting these kinds of threats in their email. Folks talk all big because, Internet, but it's BS - and they know it. Particularly since, although I haven't seen it mentioned lately, when all this was going on independent security experts were sure that someone had to actually have been on-site to perpetrate this.
Again, this Monday-Morning Quarterbacking by some folks is simply machismo and completely and utterly BS - akin to folks who say they would suddenly become Superman and would have taken down the kid at the Dark Knight screening, when in truth they would have been laying on the floor frozen and piddling in their short pants.
I bet the Sony hack didn't get root access, but gathered sources from lots of lower level accounts.
They have a copy of Sony's entire corporate electronic record. Low level employees do not have access to finished digital copies of films, executive emails, etc.
