Donald Trump says he rarely emails, and he now thinks everyone may have to begin weaning themselves off computers to deal with cyberthreats.
"I don't think you can keep secrets anymore," the billionaire businessman said Thursday on Fox News Channel's
"On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."
The Internet and computer age have been a "mixed bag," Trump said when Van Susteren expressed surprise at Trump's comments. Hackers, he said, seem to be able to break any safety lock we are able to install.
Trump was responding to the cyberattack on Sony Pictures and terror threats against theaters who showed "The Interview," a fictional comedy about a CIA assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
"It's pretty frightening when North Korea seems to have a power that we don't understand," Trump said. "Because right now, our people don't understand how this happened."
Sony pulled the movie, which was scheduled for a Christmas Day release. Trump said Sony displayed no courage in pulling the movie.
On the other hand, he said, "The movie is terrible, supposedly, according to the critics. And they are talking about the assassination of that country's leader, and in not a nice fashion. I mean, what they're saying happens to him is brutal."
A leaked video of the movie's ending shows Kim's head exploding.
"If somebody took our president or our leaders and put that into a movie I don't think our country would be very happy with it, either," Trump said.
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