Cheat Sheet - FBI Shows North Korea Hacked Sony

Read This, Skip That .... December 19, 2014 BULLY PULPIT 1. Obama: Sony Made a 'Mistake' Echoing George Clooney, President Obama said Sony "made a mistake" in pulling The Interview following what the FBI says was North Korea's hacking attack. "We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States," he said, later adding, "I wish they had spoken to me first." Obama added that Kim Jong Un is "someone whose sensibilities... need to be offended" and that there is "no indication that North Korea was acting in junction with another country." In response to the cyberattack, Obama said the United States "will respond proportionally in a place and time and manner that we choose." Read it at The Daily Beast BUSTED 2. FBI Shows North Korea Hacked Sony The FBI said Friday in an official statement that "the North Korean government is responsible" for the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and that the attack destroyed thousands of computers in the process. "The FBI has determined that the intrusion into SPE's network consisted of the deployment of destructive malware and the theft of proprietary information as well as employees' personally identifiable information and confidential communications. The attacks also rendered thousands of SPE's computers inoperable, forced SPE to take its entire computer network offline, and significantly disrupted the company's business operations." Read it at The Daily Beast Metast-ISIS 3. From Gitmo to ISIS Governor As the United States moves out of Afghanistan, ISIS is moving in to compete with al Qaeda and the Taliban in the region of Khorasan and naming its own governors. One of them, Sami Yousafzai and Christopher Dickey report, was held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay. Read it at The Daily Beast UNFRIEND 4. Teens Flee Facebook The percentage of American teenagers on Facebook continued to drop in the past year. The number of active users age 13 to 17 fell from 94 percent in 2013 to 88 percent this year. In 2012, the figure was 95 percent. In the same report from Frank N. Magid Associates, Twitter and other messaging apps like Snapchat and Kik increased their usage among teenagers. One of the biggest reasons teens cited for leaving was trust issues regarding the social network. Just 9 percent said they viewed it as "safe" or "trustworthy." Read it at Bloomberg THE WORD 5. Stephen Colbert's Sublime & Truthy End The man behind the desk is a fictional character—a ferocious patriot exposing the limits of rigid ideology. But the real Colbert has always been on that stage, too. Noel Murray on the The Colbert Report's all-star finale, what the show left unresolved, and what's ahead for the future Late Show host. Read it at The Daily Beast YIPPEE Kurds Take Mt. Sinjar From ISIS With U.S. airstrikes. TOUGH China Demotes 1,000 Senior Officials Fighting corruption. GET READY U.K.: Women Soldiers Should Fight Review finds change would not be disruptive. GET A GRIP Farmers Burn Merkel Effigy To protest EU-U.S. trade deal. SO COOL World's Deepest Fish Found In the Mariana Trench. HUFFINGTON POST Nebraska, Oklahoma File Federal Suit Against Colorado Over Marijuana Legalization ROLLING STONE NBA Player of the Year: The Ghost of LeBron James BUZZFEED Five Deaths And 28 Illnesses Tied To Commercial Caramel Apples GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. A&E's Awful Sex Worker Ambush Show by Samantha Allen Grief: The Real Monster in 'The Babadook' by Tim Teeman Sony Put Kim Jong Un in 'The Interview' by William Boot

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