A few days ago, US President Barack Obama called out Sony Pictures Entertainment for their response to the hackers that have been troubling them for weeks now. The Sony hack attack occurred early this month and leaked yet-to-be released movies and 'racist' emails exchange between their top executives.
Hackers, allegedly from North Korea, demanded to have controversial film 'The Interview' cancelled or else they will send 9/11-like terrors to cinemas that will show it. Sony Pictures eventually cancelled the release of the James Franco-Seth Rogen film. For Obama, he thinks the entertainment firm made a mistake although he said that it is not an act of war.
However, for US Senator John McCain, Obama's opponent in the 2008 presidential election, the president got it wrong. He thinks the Sony hack attack allegedly staged by the North Korea government in protest against 'The Interview' is a new form of warfare.
"The president does not understand that this is ... a manifestation of a new form of warfare," McCain said in an interview with Candy Crowley in the wake of Obama's comments on Sony hack attack. "When you destroy economies, when you are able to impose censorship on the world and especially the United States of America, it's more than vandalism."
"It's a new form of warfare that we're involved in, and we need to react and react vigorously, including reimposing sanctions that were lifted under the Bush administration, including other actions and that will squeeze them for economically. But most of all, we have to really work together with the president and the Congress to come up with counters and abilities to respond, but more importantly to prevent."
Earlier, Obama commented on Sony hack attack saying the company should have consulted him first before giving in to the demands of the perpetrators.
"I wish they had spoken to me first," Obama said of Sony executives at a year-end news conference. "We cannot have a society in which some dictatorship someplace can start imposing censorship."
