[TrudyM]

Originally Posted by janmcn

If anyone looks back over the events of this past week, they would realize it was the four major theater chain owners who decided they would not show the movie therefore forcing Sony to cancel the opening. If there is no distribution, there can be no screenings. It was the theater owners who forced Sony's hand, and it would have been the theaters who would be paying the lawsuits had something bad happened.

Exactly.
However if I was at Sony making the decision, I would have made the movie and slightly altered the names and places as is quite often done in satire. (mostly to avoid law suits) Everyone knows who it is really about but ones but is so to speak covered.
I can't help but wonder if someone at Sony will leak the movie to the internet. Then we can all download it and North Korea can go to.....

I also think we need to invest serious money in cyber security development. As it doesn't directly affect the bottom line there has been little money in it so not a lot of development over the past few years. Look at any of the software providers and their security suite division is not one of their larger departments.

Protecting our credit our banks and our infrastructure is a matter of national defense and bucks need to be spent.