Obama authorized North Korea sanctions over cyber hacking. Solution there, it seems to me, is to create unhackable systems.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 03, 2015
Needless to say, this tweet prompted a number of subtle (and not so subtle) responses; it is just vague enough to not be 100% sure he is actually joking (because the software verification problem is trivial, right?).
Did North Korea hack Sony? I doubt it; perhaps it was from an unexpected agent.
N.B. high-profile cosmologists appear to be quite happy to make bold statements to the media on issues well outside of their expertise…
