http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/15/sony_hack_was_good_news_for_insurers_and_investors/
By Mark Pesce
The Register
15 Jan 2015
Whoever hacked Sony Entertainment at the end of November changed
information security forever.
Where once hackers had been most concerned to gain access to the honeypots
of credit cards and bank accounts, this theft had a different goal, one
that became clear with the steady release of Sony’s most intimate secrets
throughout December.
This wasn’t about money. This was all about humiliation.
We now know way too much about the inner workings of one of the ‘Big Four’
film studios. The magic of cinema looks weak and ugly under close
examination. Everything that once seemed lofty and businesslike has been
exposed as little more than high school politics and juvenile
name-calling. In the back of our heads, we wonder if the rich and powerful
talk always trash outside the spotlight. Is Sony the exception -- or the
rule?
Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairs Amy Pascal and Michael Lynton come
out of this looking particularly bad. Tucked within a cache of terabytes
of stolen data, emails detail the pair trash-talking about everyone from
Barack Obama to Adam Sandler. In a twist of fate worthy of a movie, the
cry “You’ll never work in this town again!” may suddenly apply to two of
Hollywood’s most powerful, stripped down to their most confidential
secrets.
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