While you have been working hard to get a few hours off with family or other loved ones for the holidays, Sony, the only resident of Sony Land, has been burning cash by the sackful.
Matthew Ingram writes in: Why Sony is way out on a limb with legal threats against Twitter:
The ripple effects of the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack continue to spread, and one of the latest — and also arguably the least plausible — is Sony’s attempt to threaten Twitter with legal action if it doesn’t remove tweets that contain content from the company’s hacked emails. Sony may have hired superstar attorney David Boies, who led the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s, but the consensus in the legal community is that the company’s blustering is all sound and fury, signifying little.
The full extent of Sony’s claims can be read in the letter that Boies sent the company, but in a nutshell the movie studio is asking Twitter to suspend the account of anyone who posts information from the hacked emails, and it specifically mentions the account @bikinirobotarmy — which belongs to rock singer Val Broeksmit, who has a band of the same name — which has been publishing screenshots of some of the emails (with addresses redacted).
Doing due diligence, I found http://www.bikinirobotarmy.com/, where going down the rabbit hole you will find, among other things, Let Those Fuckers’ Roll.
Sony Land is characterized by non-accountable network sysadmins and their corporate overlords, who are also non-accountable. Oh, and poor security practices they seek to obscure by wild accusations about possible hackers.
If you work in Sony Land, you may need to prepare to explain a gap in your CV when you conceal that fact when seeing new employment. Coma works pretty well. Unfortunate motorcycle accident but a full recovery, complete with recent certifications. Yes?