Sony Pictures hackers promise 'Christmas gift'

Eventually these companies will figure out that security is nothing more than trying to prevent computers from doing the very things they were designed to do: copying files and manipulating large amounts of data.

There are people who can read machine code as easily as everyone else reads a newspaper. There's no way to secure anything from them, and as these companies are finding out, pissing them off is a very bad idea.

Um, no. Security CAN be done well. Just sitting on your thumbs is not an acceptable response; not even close.

On the other hand, I couldn't wish this upon a more appropriate target. I DESPISE Sony (due to being shafted over a defective rear-projection LCD TV, among other things).

Originally posted by Bozobub:

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Um, no. Security CAN be done well. Just sitting on your thumbs is not an acceptable response; not even close.

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I'll have you notice, I did NOT say "there's nothing to worry about". There's nothing about "denial" in my statement. Yet, Sony has in the past - and is implicated also in the present as having - been quite shoddy in their security practices, as MANY businesses have been.

No, you can't make it impossible to hack a given system, but you can damn well make it supremely difficult AND contain the damage when it happens. The scale of this hack shows Sony did neither (not a surprise).