Strazdas said:
I love how everyone knows this yet noone manages to produce even an ounce of evidence of this.
The evidence on NK is pretty flimsy on its own. Like its been said in this thread already, the initial demands seemed to be straight up extortion. The Interview only got involved once the media circus began, and there's no way to know if the initial hackers even continued to be involved after that point. For all anybody knows, an entirely different individual or group could have stepped in and masqueraded as GoP. Maybe somebody was having a giggle. Maybe Sony faked everything post leak to try and make the best of a bad situation. Point being, there is almost no way to know how many people were involved, what their motives were, or at what point they started or stopped being involved. Anybody who tells you who the culprit is with any certainly is either a liar or an idiot.
BTW, non-Gawker sources...
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/27/tech/north-korea-expert-doubts-about-hack/index.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2887081/North-Korea-NOT-Sony-hack-according-multiple-security-experts-discredit-FBI-findings-reveal-insider-named-Lena-responsible.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/24/no-north-korea-didn-t-hack-sony.html?via=desktop&source=twitter
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/1222/Was-North-Korea-behind-the-Sony-hack-Not-all-experts-agree.-video
http://nypost.com/2014/12/30/new-evidence-sony-hack-was-inside-job-cyber-experts/