Cyber Wars
What could Sony do?
If they played the movie, The Interview, there would have been lawsuits no matter what. Even if nothing happened there would have been a crafty lawyer out there who'd be willing to say that his client suffered an anxiety attack because he thought something might happen.
Sony would have been painted as greedy and callous.
So the flick got canceled.
Now people are saying that they're cowards.
And far be it of me to defend executives at a corporation, but the hack of their emails is scary because we seem to be in a cyber war of sorts.
I turned to a co-worker at a dinner the other night.
"How much trouble would you be in if they hacked your stuff...text messages included?"
He laughed and looked at another co-worker, who also laughed.
"What about you?" he shot back.
"Oh, if the dialogue of my exchanges became public there'd be a call for a public lynching," I said. "I'd be drawn and quartered."
He thought about it for a minute.
I could see a bit of fear being played out behind his eyes.
"Yeah, I'd be in trouble," he said.
And in this day and age it doesn't take much to be in trouble.
One badly worded joke here...
...one profanity-filled shout out to an old college roommate there...
...and you have a first-rate scandal.
There's so much fake rage going on these days. People get in an uproar for something. Two weeks later it's forgotten.
Chris Rock was talking about it the other day.
He mentioned Donald Sterling, the former Clippers owner who got in hot water when his private conversations were recorded and then played to a "horrified" public.
"All he said was that he didn't want his girlfriend to hang around with black basketball players," the very black Rock said and then he added:
"Me neither."
He's such a funny man.
And even he got in hot water over his Saturday Night Live bit a couple of months back.
My co-workers were actually considering changing their free-wheeling ways.
Not me.
As we used to say in college days:
"F%&* 'em if they can't take a joke."
If they played the movie, The Interview, there would have been lawsuits no matter what. Even if nothing happened there would have been a crafty lawyer out there who'd be willing to say that his client suffered an anxiety attack because he thought something might happen.
Sony would have been painted as greedy and callous.
So the flick got canceled.
Now people are saying that they're cowards.
And far be it of me to defend executives at a corporation, but the hack of their emails is scary because we seem to be in a cyber war of sorts.
I turned to a co-worker at a dinner the other night.
"How much trouble would you be in if they hacked your stuff...text messages included?"
He laughed and looked at another co-worker, who also laughed.
"What about you?" he shot back.
"Oh, if the dialogue of my exchanges became public there'd be a call for a public lynching," I said. "I'd be drawn and quartered."
He thought about it for a minute.
I could see a bit of fear being played out behind his eyes.
"Yeah, I'd be in trouble," he said.
And in this day and age it doesn't take much to be in trouble.
One badly worded joke here...
...one profanity-filled shout out to an old college roommate there...
...and you have a first-rate scandal.
There's so much fake rage going on these days. People get in an uproar for something. Two weeks later it's forgotten.
Chris Rock was talking about it the other day.
He mentioned Donald Sterling, the former Clippers owner who got in hot water when his private conversations were recorded and then played to a "horrified" public.
"All he said was that he didn't want his girlfriend to hang around with black basketball players," the very black Rock said and then he added:
"Me neither."
He's such a funny man.
And even he got in hot water over his Saturday Night Live bit a couple of months back.
My co-workers were actually considering changing their free-wheeling ways.
Not me.
As we used to say in college days:
"F%&* 'em if they can't take a joke."
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