Hackers Claim To Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages (wired.com) 69
A group calling itself "NullBulge" published a 1.1-TB trove of data late last week that it claims is a dump of Disney's internal Slack archive. From a report: The data allegedly includes every message and file from nearly 10,000 channels, including unreleased projects, code, images, login credentials, and links to internal websites and APIs. The hackers claim they got access to the data from a Disney insider and named the alleged collaborator.
Whether the hackers actually had inside help remains unconfirmed; they could also have plausibly used info-stealing malware to compromise an employee's account. Disney did not confirm the breach or return multiple requests for comment about the legitimacy of the stolen data. A Disney spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that the company "is investigating this matter." The data, which appears to have been first published on Thursday, was posted on BreachForums and later taken down, but it is still live on mirror sites. The hacker said they breached Disney in protest against AI-generated artwork.
Whether the hackers actually had inside help remains unconfirmed; they could also have plausibly used info-stealing malware to compromise an employee's account. Disney did not confirm the breach or return multiple requests for comment about the legitimacy of the stolen data. A Disney spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that the company "is investigating this matter." The data, which appears to have been first published on Thursday, was posted on BreachForums and later taken down, but it is still live on mirror sites. The hacker said they breached Disney in protest against AI-generated artwork.
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We get to the real reasons for a black mermaid.
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Doesn't bother me in the slightest. In fact the director says he gave the job to the best candidate. https://www.huffpost.com/entry... [huffpost.com]
So no, it wasn't for DEI or other "woke" reasons.
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It bothers me. The little mermaid is a European fairy tale. It part of our culture and our historical background. Imagine if they took Mulan, but put a white actress instead of a chinese one. They would have screamed at whitewashing and cultural appropriation. I guess it's a big no no when you are doing it with the chinese, but somehow it's ok when you do it with the europeans (and specifically, the scandinavians)?
You can't invent a narrative to get enraged upon, and then throw it in the garbage when it's not convenient for whatever moral panic/battle you want, all while disrespecting other people's culture. The vast majority of what Disney has built its own empire is on European folk tales and legends. Make your own stories, instead of stealing them, taking a massive dump on it, and then complain if we rightfully complain about it.
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It bothers me. The little mermaid is a European fairy tale. It part of our culture and our historical background. Imagine if they took Mulan, but put a white actress instead of a chinese one. They would have screamed at whitewashing and cultural appropriation. I guess it's a big no no when you are doing it with the chinese, but somehow it's ok when you do it with the europeans (and specifically, the scandinavians)?
You can't invent a narrative to get enraged upon, and then throw it in the garbage when it's not convenient for whatever moral panic/battle you want, all while disrespecting other people's culture. The vast majority of what Disney has built its own empire is on European folk tales and legends. Make your own stories, instead of stealing them, taking a massive dump on it, and then complain if we rightfully complain about it.
Is there an official skin color for mermaids?
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There is a reference to Ariel having 'white legs' or something like that. It does not, however, say there are only white mermaids on Earth or even in that region.
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Where do you draw the line at "mermaid"? Is it a race of sea people with tails that live in the ocean, or are they "sea spirits" more on the mystic/spiritual/deity side of things? Mermaids as nomadic sea people with fish for tails is pretty european, but if you expand your definition of "sea spirit, maybe with a fish tail, or other fish parts" then yeah almost everyone has mermaids at some point in their written/unwritten culture.
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If they were non-European, I can guarantee it would have been mentioned in the original stories many many times, since just a few decades ago, seeing a non-European in most of the European countries would've been a very special occasion.
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I kind of want to see an albino Klingon now
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You too can learn Klingon (Score:2)
Fun fact: Many people use DuoLingo.com to study many different languages, including Klingon. [fandom.com]
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There was one in the first season [fandom.com] of Star Trek Discovery, and he was persecuted for the color of his skin, even.
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Getting outraged about stuff is just so exhausting.
A friend of mine came to town. We went for a couple hour walk. Everything was pleasant, we talked about work, family, normal stuff. Suddenly he started ranting about how "Disney changed history". I couldn't believe a grown man in his 40s could go 15 minutes about how a new kids / family movie was a symptom of what's wrong with the world.
End result is, he won't be invited back.
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"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.". -Che Guevara
"A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.". -Martin Luther King
That said, I'd probably not choose Disney as my hill to die on, but at least your friend stands for something whereas you just sound, as you said, tired. I think I'd rather hang out with your friend, not you.
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What do you think his friend stands for exactly?
Dunno, probably some bizarre political internet-grievance related to Disney, presumably. That wasn't my point. Just rather people around people who care about something. Easily upset staid personalities aren't very interesting to me, personally. Gimme a ranter any day as long as they will allow me to retort.
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I appreciate your comment.
You yourself pretty much say that these "die for something" quotes only make sense if the something is worthwhile. And my point is... a kids movie is not worth getting worked up over. So it seems we actually agree here.
What's the world come to when people are saying they prefer to hang out with a ranting person...
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Imagine if they took Mulan, but put a white actress instead of a chinese one.
Disney did exactly that. Tilda Swinton was cast as The Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The character was originally a Tibetan male, and the producers justified it as wanting to avoid the Fu Manchu stereotype.
Halle Bailey had the right face for the movie. The idea that it was some kind of "insult" to anyone, white or Black, or just daft. Disney were not going to cast a busty 16 year old in a shell bikini, and then have her marry a much older man, because these days too many people understand ho
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It bothers me. The little mermaid is a European fairy tale. It part of our culture and our historical background. Imagine if they took Mulan, but put a white actress instead of a chinese one. They would have screamed at whitewashing and cultural appropriation. I guess it's a big no no when you are doing it with the chinese, but somehow it's ok when you do it with the europeans (and specifically, the scandinavians)?
You can't invent a narrative to get enraged upon, and then throw it in the garbage when it's not convenient for whatever moral panic/battle you want, all while disrespecting other people's culture. The vast majority of what Disney has built its own empire is on European folk tales and legends. Make your own stories, instead of stealing them, taking a massive dump on it, and then complain if we rightfully complain about it.
You must be really upset at all the various branches of Christendom... constantly depicting a brown, Arab man as a white European.
Faux outrage seems to be all the rage, but only when white people are the victims. There is a large number of people who seem to be perpetually offended, constantly looking for reasons to be angry over non-issues. They're most easily identified by their need to denigrate others without having the guts to use an outright insult... Their current favourite word is "woke".
You h
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A) The Little Mermaid isn't a fairy tale. It's a novel. The book is also a long metaphor for the Calvinist doctrine of divine election. All the theological metaphors were edited out of the story with a cleaver by Disney, leaving a story with almost no relationship to the book.
B) White people have literally done that for most of history and still frequently do that.
C) You're just racist. You can just come out and say the racist part out loud. It won't make any more people think you're racist because you're
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I am not racist. You are just an american karen.
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-Ancient racist proverb
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The director also had Awkwafina in the movie. So in a way I agree with you, the director chose the person they thought was the best. It's just their judgement is worse than the current USSS head's.
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If anything, I was triggered by the insult to the black communities around the world that they just get the same story with a new actress instead of their very own story. It's like saying they probably didn't understand it the first time, so we'll just repeat the whole thing for their sake.
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Umm, did you actually watch it? It wasn't the same story. It was the same title and basic premise but the story was considerably different and IMHO better.
I love the original, it was my favorite Disney movie as a kid and remains a favorite (probably 2nd or 3rd after The Lion King/Aladdin) today, but it's actually a fairly shallow story, basically girl falls in love with guy because he's hot. I haven't been a fan of most of the Disney live action remakes, The Lion King was trash, Aladdin meh (good luck improving on Robin Williams), but I throughly enjoyed The Little Mermaid and cannot for the life of me understand how it became Yet Another Front in our Culture War.
Admittedly I haven't watched the remake as I'm a bloke who's north of 40 (sans kids) which means I saw the originals as a lad but that also means I'm old enough to know plenty of people with kids and knowing a few black (mostly Latino and British) mothers they're loving the new "woke" with multi-racial princes and princesses because it means their kids can look at the TV and say "mummy, they look like me".
I mean it is pretty telling that some people are getting their kickers in a proper twist over childr
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If anything, I was triggered by the insult to the black communities around the world
Lol, how nice of you to speak up for them.
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No matter what they say it's "down with the honkeys."
Memorandum: Do not apologize to communists. It just makes it worse. Avoid them instead.
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What's with the european obsession with inserting black people in european stories, clothes, and fairy tales?
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We get to the real reasons for a black mermaid.
That says more about you than it does about Disney.
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It also says a lot about you. Stop stealing other people's culture.
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We already knew the reason: the reason is money.
Hello? (Score:1)
Are Disney's shareholders concerned about any of this? If you're a shareholder it's your money they are setting on fire.
Remember John Carter? You know, the $250 million film Bob Iger destroyed because he didn't like Dick Cook? The one where Disney destroyed a two-time Academy-Award-Winning director for no reason? The one where you had a script based on the works of the most influential author since Shakespeare?
Or let's take something more recent. Do you know the name Ike Perlmutter? You should, because wit
Re:Hello? (Score:5, Insightful)
John Carter failed because nobody wanted to see a movie with the title of John Carter. Unless you're familiar with the books the name means little.
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John Carter failed because it wasn't marketed at all.
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John Carter failed because it mushed 6-8 books of the series into one mess of a movie.
Bob Iger deliberately spiked the film to fuck over Dick Cook. Numbers don't lie.
Do you even know why you're taking up for Disney? They threw a multiple Oscar winner under the bus so they could concentrate on destroying Star Wars. What more do you need at this point? Stone tablets? Good fucking grief.
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Do you even know why you're taking up for Disney? They threw a multiple Oscar winner under the bus so they could concentrate on destroying Star Wars. What more do you need at this point? Stone tablets? Good fucking grief.
What is your source for that? Because it sounds quite implausible. Disney is all about profit, they would not intentionally destroy an asset like Star Wars.
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It's failure paved the way to the acceptance of a movie with the title "John Wick".
DeSantis loving this (Score:2)
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It won't cost much. Disney is loaded with pedos. Go check the news. They are finding new ones all the time.
https://news.google.com/search... [google.com]
A T of vacation planning webpages. (Score:1)
All These Posts About Culture (Score:1)
Cloud Slack (Score:2)
At what point will companies realize that someone breaking their storefront window every day is a bad thing?
At what point will companies realize that more cloud, cloud everything, and systems which archive every human interaction are unprofitable for large parts of company business?
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Yep - Slack data is stored on servers in Canada. You don't have to hack Disney itself to get it, you need to hack Slack. That is literally why a US government contractor I used to work for moved from Slack to Teams, even though we despised Teams at the time. Ugh, not sure what they would think of New Teams, which seems like a giant leap backwards in many ways (Jabber and Slack are 1000x better at online presence, for instance - Teams will show me away 1/2 hour after I get back sometimes if my machine didn't
Who cares why? (Score:2)
"The hacker said they breached Disney in protest against AI-generated artwork."
Really? How will that change things? These folks hacked Disney because they could. Why they feel the need to wrap some tenuous justification around it is beyond me.