April 19, 2015 at 18:23Hack Sony revealed that Sony was downloading pirated hack books
Sony is actively fighting the "pirates" and lobbying for the adoption of relevant legislation. But on Thursday, Wikileaks posted the internal documents of the corporation , which show that in its activities it itself does not always follow the stated principles.
Among other things, stolen e-books lay on Sony's servers. More interestingly, these were books on the topic of information security, that is, about how to implement hacks, similar to the one that affected the company itself.
Jeffrey Carr, author of Inside Cyber Warfare , tweeted, “So, someone at Sony downloaded a pirated version of my book. What do you think about this?". On the Sony internal network, PDF and TXT versions of his book on information security were available.
Thus, Sony, on the one hand, is struggling with illegal copies of its own products, but at the same time, individual employees do not hesitate to copy pirated copies for their own education. This is not surprising, because several thousand employees work in the American “daughter” of Sony, so any of them could have sinned. In the end, even Microsoft used a cracked copy of Sound Forge 4.5 during the development of Windows XP.
By the way, Sony's published documents show that the company uses very extraordinary methods to combat piracy. For example, placing fake torrents in Pirate Bay. Instead of the next episode of a favorite series, users who download such a torrent will see a 60-second warning about the need to watch videos only in a legal way.
In addition to the aforementioned “ Inside Cyber Warfare ”, a copy of the book “ Hacking the Next Generation ” on information security from the same publisher O'Reilly, in PDF format , was found on Sony's servers .
O'Reilly, which encourages the distribution of many of its books under a free license, has so far refrained from commenting on this incident.
One way or another, but both books are worth reading.
Among other things, stolen e-books lay on Sony's servers. More interestingly, these were books on the topic of information security, that is, about how to implement hacks, similar to the one that affected the company itself.
So someone at @sony downloaded a pirated copy of my book. You guys couldn't afford to buy a copy? https://t.co/KNT5ZvUdhU
- Jeffrey Carr (@jeffreycarr) April 17, 2015Jeffrey Carr, author of Inside Cyber Warfare , tweeted, “So, someone at Sony downloaded a pirated version of my book. What do you think about this?". On the Sony internal network, PDF and TXT versions of his book on information security were available.
Thus, Sony, on the one hand, is struggling with illegal copies of its own products, but at the same time, individual employees do not hesitate to copy pirated copies for their own education. This is not surprising, because several thousand employees work in the American “daughter” of Sony, so any of them could have sinned. In the end, even Microsoft used a cracked copy of Sound Forge 4.5 during the development of Windows XP.
By the way, Sony's published documents show that the company uses very extraordinary methods to combat piracy. For example, placing fake torrents in Pirate Bay. Instead of the next episode of a favorite series, users who download such a torrent will see a 60-second warning about the need to watch videos only in a legal way.
In addition to the aforementioned “ Inside Cyber Warfare ”, a copy of the book “ Hacking the Next Generation ” on information security from the same publisher O'Reilly, in PDF format , was found on Sony's servers .
O'Reilly, which encourages the distribution of many of its books under a free license, has so far refrained from commenting on this incident.
One way or another, but both books are worth reading.