According to the wikiality of the Interweb (in other words, according to hundreds of sources reposting the same message, but without actual verification), a hacker group known as “The Guardians of Peace” has communicated the following:
Warning
We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places “The interview” be shown, including the premiere, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to.
Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made.
The world will be full of fear.
Remember the 11th of September 2001.
We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.
(If your house is nearby, you'd better leave.)
Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
All the world will denounce the SONY.
These words may go down in history as the seminal message of the apocalypse. It is very possible that this is the beginning of a post-government, post-religion, post-rule-of-law age… the Age of Hackers. BTW: I predicted this attack in my article April 2009 article entitled, Metamerica: Evolving The Governance Of A Digital Democracy.
How Did We Get Here?
First, the tools to do this kind of hacking have been around for quite some time. In June 2012, Kaspersky Lab discovered Worm.Win32.Flame – the world's first super-cyber weapon, which it named “Flame.” What made Flame a super-cyber weapon? Kaspersky Lab says it was highly sophisticated and malicious with complexity and functionality exceeding all other cyber weapons known to that date. They think it may have been deployed as early as 2010.
According to the New York Times, back in October 2012, “Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta warned that the United States was facing the possibility of a ‘cyber-Pearl Harbor' and was increasingly vulnerable to foreign computer hackers who could dismantle the nation's power grid, transportation system, financial networks and government.” Of course Congress was too busy dealing with other domestic issues to take this seriously.
