'Cyber vandalism,' Mr. President?

When one of America's largest corporations was hacked, exposing thousands of pieces of personal information like Social Security numbers, salary figures and private emails, you would think that the president of the United States would take it seriously. When Sony Pictures Entertainment came under attack right before Thanksgiving by the group calling themselves "Guardians of Peace," it sent a chill through everyone within the company. When the computers were found to be compromised, everyone scrambled to save their private information the best way that they could, but the leaks had already started.

Sony was targeted because of the planned Christmas day release of a new comedy, "The Interview," which centered on the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The hackers released private information of employees and embarrassing emails of studio executives and promised to release even more if the film was not pulled from distribution. As expected, the media spent all of their time ignoring the serious issue of a devastating cyberattack and focused on the salacious stories about the executives bad-mouthing the stars and their thinly disguised racist comments against the president and actor Kevin Hart. They virtually ignored the fact that this was a huge moment in the cyber war against our country.

The FBI started an investigation and pinned it down to an almost certainty that North Korea was involved in the hack attack. After the initial documents were leaked, the hackers amped up their threats, declaring that if the film was shown anywhere there would be 9/11-style attacks on the theaters that played it. They threatened to take terrorist actions against the New York City premiere of the film on Dec. 18 and then again on the nationwide release Dec. 25.

In a panic move, Sony pulled the release of the film. The theater chains had already become skittish about showing it, so the executives buckled under to the threats. The hackers continued their correspondence with the Sony executives, dictating what they would and would not do if their demands were not met. Sony caved – the hackers (North Korea) had the upper hand and watched a huge American corporation cower in fear.

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At this point, Barack Obama finally came out and weighed in on this attack. With his usual rhetoric, he condemned it, vowed to get to the bottom of it and then prepared for his two week Hawaiian vacation. There was no outrage, no stern warnings to North Korea, no mention of any type of retaliation at all. He casually said that they were weighing options and something would be done. I won't hold my breath.

All of Obama's Hollywood buddies must have stood in astonishment as he threw them under the bus, saying that they never should have "caved" on yanking the film from distribution. He continued to say that they should have called him first, which, according to them, they did. But, he didn't know about that call because he never knows anything that is going on in his administration.

And why the outrage at Sony because they pulled the film? The hackers demanded it, and Sony buckled under. Didn't Obama do the same thing with the film "Innocence of Muslims" when he created the fictitious story that the reason for the attacks on Benghazi were because of that film? He demanded that the film be pulled from YouTube and that the director be jailed for something he had nothing to do with! First Amendment rights and freedom of expression were trampled on in that scenario, but it fit Obama's agenda.

Sony this week partially reversed itself, deciding to screen "The Interview" in limited release Christmas Day, though they've pulled another film out of production.

I'm sure North Korea is just shaking in their boots wondering what the repercussions of its attack will be. At the very least Obama could have put them back on the terrorist enemies list; maybe he will think about that while he golfs and surfs in Hawaii.

While Obama plays, other hackers are planning a future cyberattack on our power grid, our air traffic control or maybe our banking/financial systems. They have been emboldened by our lack of concern and our own president reducing this vicious attack to nothing more than "graffiti" or in his words, "cyber vandalism."

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