Hey, North Korea, All this over a movie?

Now they are making threats by linking events that might occur in theaters with those of 9/11.  First they hacked Sony and spread enough e-mails around to prove they had some insider stuff.  Then, they threatened to send out more by Christmas, the release date of The Interview.  Apparently that wasn't enough.

Attribution is always a problem with events like this, but name a country in the world that is whacko enough to hire hackers to disrupt a studio's operations over the making of a fictional movie.  We can narrow it down further by looking at the subject of the movie, an absurd plot to use an interview as a way of getting at the leader of North Korea and killing him.  Let's see, how many countries might be interested either in doing some damage or hiring someone to do it for them?

North Korea has portrayed itself as a country willing to use nuclear weapons to meet it foreign policy goals, so we are convinced that they are radical enough to do more than most other parts of the civilized world, but now they are proving they can be even crazier than that.  They want to make war on a movie making studio.  Nobody could fault them if it was one of their studios, but it isn't.  Last year, they attacked businesses in South Korea and did hundreds of millions in damage to some of their IT systems.  That wasn't funny and didn't seem very neighborly.  Now, they want to manage events in other countries, using their own criteria for what is acceptable behavior, and proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that is one of the most unstable regimes anywhere in the world.  They aren't the only ones doing it, but so far, they have set a new standard for in-your-face use of information war.

They want to make Sony, and every other institution they can't control, think twice before doing anything like this again.  Nobody knows if Sony will take any action against them, like hiring their own hackers.  Nobody knows what governments are contemplating.  So far, only Anonymous has ever done much of anything to governments that try to make the people bow to this kind of intimidation.  Where are you now, Anonymous?  Somebody put the A on the searchlight and light up the sky.