And That Concludes The Interview

Sony has canceled the plans for the Christmas day release of "The Interview." A link to put the blame on North Korea for the hacking attack on Sony came out shortly after this news. Getting Sony not to show the movie was one of the hackers' public demands. Officials say that the attack originated outside North Korea, but believe the people behind it were acting on orders from the North Korean government. 

This attack is worrying to the intelligence community because this is the first time destructive malware has targeted a U.S. firm. The malware used in the Sony attack has two destructive threads (1) overwrites data and (2) it interrupts execution processes. The FBI warns that this can be so destructive that the data could be lost forever.

This week North Korea's state-run media KCNA said that the hacking was done by "sympathizers." 

An expert on North Korea has said that this will been seen that America is vulnerable to blackmail and that North Korea will try this again. "Sony was stupid to make a movie about killing Kim Jung-un but was even more stupid to cave in to pressure," says another expert.

A Steve Carell "paranoid" thriller "that was to be set in North Korea" has been scrapped.

In an interview with president Obama, he encouraged Americans to go to the movies.