What the hell? Okay a lot of you guys here understand the technical details far better than I or ninety something percent of the population.

Critics Say New Evidence Linking North Korea to the Sony Hack Is Still Flimsy

Neither Comey nor the Times sources mentioned when these incidents occurred, but the Times notes that “before the attacks in November, Sony Pictures was threatened in a series of messages posted to a Facebook account set up by a group calling itself ‘Guardians of Peace.’ After Facebook closed that account in November, the group changed its messaging platform and began sending threats in emails to Sony and on the anonymous posting site Pastebin.”

The timing of the mistakes could be important because within days after the hack was first exposed, stories about North Korea’s possible role in it were already being published, which would raise the possibility that if the hackers knew investigators were looking for North Korean links, they may have decided to provide them by using North Korean IP addresses. But that’s assuming the IP addresses the FBI cites are indeed North Korea IP addresses.

This is the main issue that critics have with all of the information the FBI has so far provided about the IP addresses: without knowing the exact IP addresses and what’s on the other end of them (a mail server, a web server, a laptop) or why officials concluded the addresses are used exclusively by North Korea, the public has little to go on to trust the government’s assessment.