Sony Pictures boss Amy Pascal is now using four smartphones with numerous aliases and passwords after the epic hack of her movie studio’s computers that revealed her embarrassing emails.
According to a new Vanity Fair piece, “Today, [Pascal’s] emails are shorter and safer. For security reasons, she’s using four separate hand-held devices, with various names and passwords.”
The story about the breach stemming from Seth Rogen’s Kim Jong-un assassination comedy, “The Interview,” and its fallout, also reveals that Pascal “returned to work [Jan. 5], the town clamoring to work with her, or for her.”
However, “some insiders are cynical about the support, so late in coming in a competitive town, saying ‘I guarantee you, somebody who is telling Amy Pascal that they’re there for her and “Please let me know if there’s anything I can do” is, on the side, angling for her job,’” says a rival studio executive.
While Rogen defends his use of the North Korean dictator’s name in his film rather than a fictitious leader, insiders criticize Pascal for being swayed by him.
“Their failure was to let Seth Rogen . . . go ahead with this . . . It’s a movie! And not necessarily a good one!” says an exec.
George Clooney appears in the piece, whining that “not one studio head, talent agent, movie, television or music executive” signed a petition he created to show solidarity after the hack. But a rival studio exec sniffed of Clooney’s plan: “I don’t think it’s our responsibility to do something for Sony. They’re our competitors.”