Politics meets entertainment.
What could I be talking about?
The Sony/North Korea hacking incident over the film "The Interview," starring Seth Rogan and James Franco.
In it (the hacking), corporate secrets and personal information were illegally obtained from Sony's servers.
Threats were also leveled by the North Korean hackers, threatening 9/11-type tragedy at theaters if the movie was released as scheduled.
It won't be, because the movie was pulled.
Although it may be considered impolite to push a movie about the assassination of a foreign head of state, it is sad to see us buckle under international pressure to drop such a movie.
The hackers called it a wise decision, and promised the confidentiality of the personal information obtained if there were not any new issues to arise.
Will there be any reaction in response to this state-sponsored event coming out of North Korea?
That remains to be seen.
What is clear is that Sony buckled under controversy, which is the saddest part of all.
This is a developing story, and there will be more on this in the future.
Briefly on another topic: travel bans on traffic entering the country.
We've considered location as an exclusionary factor, as well as age.
Why not consider income level?
The profile of a terrorist tends to be male, young, and disaffected (see: poor). Screening by income level would target these individuals more precisely.
Take care.
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