I hunted down the brief outline of the SPECTRE draft and it only confirms a lot of what I guess will happen anyway, plus it's still a long time until late 2015 with the plot/characters switched around a lot during main shooting, and memory blur. Plus "spoilers" in some studies can sometimes enhance story enjoyment. I'm more worried about the budget overrun, a not fully realised third act, and unrealistically high expectations dampening things like they did for the otherwise solid QoS.
I wouldn't worry too much about the third act since it apparently was an early draft of the script.
I saw on one of the national news channels this morning that hackers are threatening to leak the script to the new James Bond film, Scepter. I wonder if the Queen knows about this?
It would need to be a pretty BIG volcano for him to hide in. )
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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Anyone watch Saturday Night Live last night? Dr. Evil (played by Mike Myers) was on the cold open. Just thought I'd throw it out there with Spectre in production now and the possibility of Blofeld returning.
Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
According to what I've reading lately in the newspapers, US Intelligence has evidence that North Korea is responsible for the Sony hack. Of course now the North Koreans are responding by saying that they need to bump up their nukes as they fear a US invasion or attack.
I realise N.Korea, hasn't as many computers as in the west but surely
Some western hackers could return the favour, and screw up some of
Their systems ?
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
I have a co-worker who was born in South Korea and came to the US at age 8. In their opinion, the North Korean Government is far more of a threat to their own people and South Korea than the US. The North Koreans are very slick (there's a method to the madness)...they do just enough to rankle, annoy, and get their perceived "pound of flesh" for any offence or threat (real, imagined or just plain made-up) to them....not enough to warrant any type of military response from another country (unless Sony hires an army of mercs to go over there...do I hear sequel to "The Interview" ). The present regime will stay in power until China decides that they are too much of a liability.... Wouldn't it be funny if Bond 25 included something about a North Korean data hack?
I realise N.Korea, hasn't as many computers as in the west but surely
Some western hackers could return the favour, and screw up some of
Their systems ?
I'm sure the NK military has pretty advanced computers. I'm also sure that those systems by now are riddled with US worms and viruses. But I'm not sure the US wants to give up any tactical advantage just to avenge the Sony hack. The US also has to be careful not to turn this into a military situation. NK has 10,000 rocket launchers and artillery pieces within 24 miles of Seoul, a city of 10 million.
I realise N.Korea, hasn't as many computers as in the west but surely
Some western hackers could return the favour, and screw up some of
Their systems ?
I'm sure the NK military has pretty advanced computers. I'm also sure that those systems by now are riddled with US worms and viruses. But I'm not sure the US wants to give up any tactical advantage just to avenge the Sony hack. The US also has to be careful not to turn this into a military situation. NK has 10,000 rocket launchers and artillery pieces within 24 miles of Seoul, a city of 10 million.
Agreed. No one's doing anything military, would make no sense. I'm sure "officially" there will be some kind of "sanctions" against North Korea and some sort of official "censure" from the UN, etc. Clandestinely....I would bet that there will be actions taken to create some misery for those responsible.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30573040
N.Korea is now threatening the White House and other American targets.
I'd love to see a mysterious " virus" or some such bring down the part
Of the N.Korean computer system.
It's Time pressure was put on China to pull the leash on their little friend !
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30573040
N.Korea is now threatening the White House and other American targets.
I'd love to see a mysterious " virus" or some such bring down the part
Of the N.Korean computer system.
It's Time pressure was put on China to pull the leash on their little friend !
Yeah, 'cos its only a matter of time before the terrorists plan their next coup.
Which - oh, the irony - would surely be to insist that SPECTRE wasn't released. And we wouldn't want that, would we?
Nor, I suspect, would Sony. Imagine the moral dilemma had they insisted last week it was a huge banker box office blockbuster that was withheld, and not some crappy middling comedy.
And to add to the sense of fantasy, Messrs Clooney and Penn are appalled at the "censorship". Team America? Fark Yeah..
So farkin' lonely these lunatic masterminds (even the one's with "brothers" who don't know of they're existence).
North Korea's internet appears to be under mass cyber attack
December 22, 2014
Internet connectivity between North Korea and the outside world, though never robust to begin with, is currently suffering one of its worst outages in recent memory, suggesting that the country may be enduring a mass cyber attack a few days after President Obama warned the US would launch a "proportional response" to North Korea's hack against Sony.
"I haven't seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before," said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at the cybsecurity firm Dyn Research, according to Martyn Williams of the excellent blog North Korea Tech. Madory explained, "Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently."
While it's entirely possible that this is due to run-of-the-mill maintenance or technical issues, it's hard to miss that the outage comes just days after President Obama condemned North Korea as responsible for the massive cyberattack against Sony and pledged a "proportional" US response.
The outage also comes as China is investigating the accusations against North Korea over the Sony hack. North Korea's internet access is wired through China, which gives China more or less direct control over North Korea's access to the outside world.
Yes, North Korea does have the internet. Very few citizens have access to it, it's slow, and the connection is shaky. But it allows North Korea's state media, its propagandists, and its vaunted cyberwarfare divisions a way to access the outside world, as well as ways for sympathetic Koreans in South Korea and Japan to link up with the Hermit Kingdom. The country is wired through China, North Korea's northern neighbor and sole ally.
Why could this be happening? Did the US launch a cyber attack against North Korea in retaliation for the Sony hack? On the one hand, the White House has reportedly ruled out any sort of "demonstration strike" cyber reprisal against North Korean internet targets. On the other, that does not necessarily rule out a possible American effort to simply disrupt or sever North Korea's connection to the outside internet, if only to block future attacks.
It's also possible that China is attempting to shut down North Korea's internet connections with the outside world, perhaps so as to avoid future North Korean attacks that would embarrass China. While China is North Korea's patron, it also typically seeks to tamp down the Hermit Kingdom's provocations, which Beijing rightly sees as bad for Chinese interests.
Vigilante hackers could also theoretically be responsible, perhaps in an attempt to punish North Korea for the Sony attack, although past efforts by groups such as Anonymous have been spectacular failures.
While it's possible that North Korea is preemptively closing off its own internet access, hoping to prevent or preempt any US reprisal attacks, that would not explain why connectivity occasionally pops back up, suggesting that either an outage or a deliberate attack is the cause.
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Could North Korea really have pulled off these attacks?
Can North Korea — one of the poorest, most isolated countries in the world, a place where personal computers are banned and the internet does not officially exist — possibly be that good at hacking? Even some in the hacking community have been asking this question.
The answer is, yes, North Korea really is that good at hacking. North Korean government hackers have launched a number of successful, high-profile attacks in recent years — as well as an unknown number of lower-profile ones. The attacks have been growing in scale and sophistication as North Korea ratchets up its largely military-run cyber warfare program.
The first known attacks came in 2009 against South Korean and US web sites. While those attacks did little damage, they did alert US officials to the growing problem of cyber warfare. Since then, North Korea has launched increasingly sophisticated hacks against South Korea, including an attack in 2014 that seeded thousands of cell phones with an Angry Birds-style game containing malware that eventually gave the hackers control of those phones.
North Korea keeps its own population offline, but its hackers are thought to be trained in China and Russia and are given higher status and better lifestyles within the country. According to defectors who have fled the country, one of the main reasons for the country's focus on cyber warfare is that it's much less expensive than traditional military weapons like planes, tanks, and bombs. And as the world grows ever more interconnected, those hackers can have a more devastating effect.
I saw a link that said Spectre script and avoided it. I'm about to go dark now for the lead up to Spectre anyway. Only checking impawards for the posters every quarter or so. I think I checked the prop section here during the leadup to Skyfall. But it did have some spoilers with the shorts that Daniel Craig wore and the scene. I think I'm just going to check the posters. Pick up on everything else after the movie.
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I wouldn't worry too much about the third act since it apparently was an early draft of the script.
................... " A Million Dollars !!!!".
Nah they have not said that yet, Kim Jong is still waiting for his Volcano to be hollowed out
If we even get one at all.
Some western hackers could return the favour, and screw up some of
Their systems ?
I'm sure the NK military has pretty advanced computers. I'm also sure that those systems by now are riddled with US worms and viruses. But I'm not sure the US wants to give up any tactical advantage just to avenge the Sony hack. The US also has to be careful not to turn this into a military situation. NK has 10,000 rocket launchers and artillery pieces within 24 miles of Seoul, a city of 10 million.
Agreed. No one's doing anything military, would make no sense. I'm sure "officially" there will be some kind of "sanctions" against North Korea and some sort of official "censure" from the UN, etc. Clandestinely....I would bet that there will be actions taken to create some misery for those responsible.
N.Korea is now threatening the White House and other American targets.
I'd love to see a mysterious " virus" or some such bring down the part
Of the N.Korean computer system.
It's Time pressure was put on China to pull the leash on their little friend !
http://youtu.be/SIcQX91TR7E
Yeah, 'cos its only a matter of time before the terrorists plan their next coup.
Which - oh, the irony - would surely be to insist that SPECTRE wasn't released. And we wouldn't want that, would we?
Nor, I suspect, would Sony. Imagine the moral dilemma had they insisted last week it was a huge banker box office blockbuster that was withheld, and not some crappy middling comedy.
And to add to the sense of fantasy, Messrs Clooney and Penn are appalled at the "censorship". Team America? Fark Yeah..
So farkin' lonely these lunatic masterminds (even the one's with "brothers" who don't know of they're existence).
Mwhaha. Mwhaha
May your Gods go with you.
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North Korea's internet appears to be under mass cyber attack
December 22, 2014
Internet connectivity between North Korea and the outside world, though never robust to begin with, is currently suffering one of its worst outages in recent memory, suggesting that the country may be enduring a mass cyber attack a few days after President Obama warned the US would launch a "proportional response" to North Korea's hack against Sony.
"I haven't seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before," said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at the cybsecurity firm Dyn Research, according to Martyn Williams of the excellent blog North Korea Tech. Madory explained, "Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently."
While it's entirely possible that this is due to run-of-the-mill maintenance or technical issues, it's hard to miss that the outage comes just days after President Obama condemned North Korea as responsible for the massive cyberattack against Sony and pledged a "proportional" US response.
The outage also comes as China is investigating the accusations against North Korea over the Sony hack. North Korea's internet access is wired through China, which gives China more or less direct control over North Korea's access to the outside world.
Yes, North Korea does have the internet. Very few citizens have access to it, it's slow, and the connection is shaky. But it allows North Korea's state media, its propagandists, and its vaunted cyberwarfare divisions a way to access the outside world, as well as ways for sympathetic Koreans in South Korea and Japan to link up with the Hermit Kingdom. The country is wired through China, North Korea's northern neighbor and sole ally.
Why could this be happening? Did the US launch a cyber attack against North Korea in retaliation for the Sony hack? On the one hand, the White House has reportedly ruled out any sort of "demonstration strike" cyber reprisal against North Korean internet targets. On the other, that does not necessarily rule out a possible American effort to simply disrupt or sever North Korea's connection to the outside internet, if only to block future attacks.
It's also possible that China is attempting to shut down North Korea's internet connections with the outside world, perhaps so as to avoid future North Korean attacks that would embarrass China. While China is North Korea's patron, it also typically seeks to tamp down the Hermit Kingdom's provocations, which Beijing rightly sees as bad for Chinese interests.
Vigilante hackers could also theoretically be responsible, perhaps in an attempt to punish North Korea for the Sony attack, although past efforts by groups such as Anonymous have been spectacular failures.
While it's possible that North Korea is preemptively closing off its own internet access, hoping to prevent or preempt any US reprisal attacks, that would not explain why connectivity occasionally pops back up, suggesting that either an outage or a deliberate attack is the cause.
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Could North Korea really have pulled off these attacks?
Can North Korea — one of the poorest, most isolated countries in the world, a place where personal computers are banned and the internet does not officially exist — possibly be that good at hacking? Even some in the hacking community have been asking this question.
The answer is, yes, North Korea really is that good at hacking. North Korean government hackers have launched a number of successful, high-profile attacks in recent years — as well as an unknown number of lower-profile ones. The attacks have been growing in scale and sophistication as North Korea ratchets up its largely military-run cyber warfare program.
The first known attacks came in 2009 against South Korean and US web sites. While those attacks did little damage, they did alert US officials to the growing problem of cyber warfare. Since then, North Korea has launched increasingly sophisticated hacks against South Korea, including an attack in 2014 that seeded thousands of cell phones with an Angry Birds-style game containing malware that eventually gave the hackers control of those phones.
North Korea keeps its own population offline, but its hackers are thought to be trained in China and Russia and are given higher status and better lifestyles within the country. According to defectors who have fled the country, one of the main reasons for the country's focus on cyber warfare is that it's much less expensive than traditional military weapons like planes, tanks, and bombs. And as the world grows ever more interconnected, those hackers can have a more devastating effect.
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7433873/north-korea-internet-down