John McAfee: 'I know who hacked Sony Pictures – and it wasn't North Korea'

ibtimes.co.uk

11 points·peterkchen··8 comments

McAfee is no longer to be cited as a credible source, unless it involves his personal life and even then I have my reservations.

One might make the same point about the US government.

Sad to see this post flagged of the front page without further discussion.

What is there to discuss? It's already been done to death. Maybe North Korea did it, maybe they didn't. Maybe it was really a false flag operation by the US government to discredit North Korea and create an atmosphere of fear which would allow tougher 'anti-hacking' legislation. Maybe Sony had itself hacked as part of a viral marketing campaign which went horribly wrong (or horribly right.) Maybe it was a false flag operation by China. Maybe it was South Korean activists. Maybe some anons did it for the lulz.

John McAfee says it was a group of hackers he refuses to name, who are "civil libertarians" and who have issues with DRM and copyright law. It's just another theory to knock around. Maybe it was Dread Pirate Roberts. Who knows?

Discussion of what?

I wonder how many drugs McAfee was on that day.

Not enough?

> McAfee's whereabouts are not known at the moment, but he was last seen in Portland, Oregon where he was evicted from his apartment for apparently stalking a property manager.

That, and the picture of him in the article, makes it very difficult to believe anything he has to say.

'the group attacked Sony Pictures as it is indicative of an industry which is “controlling the content of art,”'

And so in response, they threaten employees of a large company in an attempt to stop the release of a film.

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