[gthaman]

My understanding is that the movie was not once mentioned by the hacker(s) or the victim (Sony) but rather the first mention of the movie was by a popular American news outlet.

In this context the two narratives of "north korea did it, okay?" and "perhaps one of the 8,000 laid off tech department workers at Sony did it" are easy to understand.

Sony's multiple layoffs of its digital unit workers gave certain employees time to orchestrate this.

And on the cry wolf side, the big 3 American media companies started going down their own rabbit hole of speculation and fear mongering.

Do you remember the last time (if ever) any of these "News Outlets" have rescinded their accusations (especially regarding 'war') after making such strong accusations for so long ?

[downandout]

In this context the two narratives of "north korea did it, okay?" and "perhaps one of the 8,000 laid off tech department workers at Sony did it" are easy to understand.

These two narratives are not mutually exclusive. NK could easily have hired one of these people. I don't know who carried it out but I'm 99% sure I know who is behind it.

[lotsofmangos]

I don't know who carried it out but I'm 99% sure I know who is behind it.

And how confident are you that this isn't the Dunning–Kruger effect in action?