Downing North Korea’s Internet not much of a scalp
A student looks at a screen in the Grand People’s Study House in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang October 27, 2008.
A student looks at a screen in the Grand People’s Study House in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang October 27, 2008.
A hand is silhouetted in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013.
A security guard stands at the entrance of United Artists theater during the premiere of the film ”The Interview” in Los Angeles, California December 11, 2014.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) delivers remarks as China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) looks on, before their meeting at the State Department in Washington October 1, 2014.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday said Sony Pictures “made a mistake” in pulling the satirical film “The Interview” after suffering a devastating cyber attack blamed on North Korea. “I wish they (Sony) would have spoken to me first,” Obama said at a news conference. “I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.'”
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Faced with the most destructive cyber attack of a company on U.S. soil, President Barack Obama resorted to humor to explain an absurd plot that even Hollywood did not see coming.