It's easy to accuse North Korea. They can't practically respond to the accusations because they have no outlet anyone reads, and if anyone did then nobody would care anyway.
North Korea destroyed their own credibility.
North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
> given the glacial pace of constitutional law review OTOH, the SCOTUS has achieved a political supermajority and will probably move much faster with policy changes now.
The Supreme Court does not make policy, at most it stops other branches from making certain kind of policies, when presented an opportunity to do so when resolving an actual case or controversy.
SCOTUS can also roll back existing policy.
The power to flip a bit is effectively power to make policy.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
The North Korean regime just needs to come in from the cold, like Gaddafi did, which certainly worked out well for him and the Libyan people.
Just to add context for others that aren't familiar, NK definitely learned from the Libyan experience. It was after Gaddafi got filmed getting bayoneted in the ass for giving up the Libyan nuclear program, North Korea learned to never give up nuclear weapons and accelerated their program.
That was one short bayonet for a man, and open air slave markets for the Libyan people: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-po...
> 'We came, we saw, he died,' she joked. But overthrowing Gadhafi was a humanitarian and strategic debacle that now limits our options on North Korea.
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The federal application for a Federal Firearms License, the license needed to be a firearm vendor, not the (as far as I can tell) non-existent federal license to own one?
It isn't just FFLs. The Gun Control Act (GCA) defines a list of people who aren't allowed to ship, transport, receive, or possess firearms of ammo. This includes any person "who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, codified at 21 U.S.C. § 802);" [1]. Since cannabis is federally illegal still if you use it you can't legally even pos…
Admittedly, it's hard to kill another person by voting, or receiving due process. And we do restrict speech when it verges on violence (imminent lawless action, fighting words).
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#105I would have advised him to stay quiet about this. Not out of fear of the North Koreans, but out of fear of our own security agencies seeing the activity as interfering in international relations. Also the vagueness of our hacking laws probably make what he did a crime. But I also am immensely proud that we have people willing to take things into their own hands when needed. Also, I feel like the 2nd amendment should…
The 2nd Amendment says the government can’t infringe your right to possess arms. It does not say that it’s legal for you to use your arms against others to make a point. “Digital arms” are legal to possess in the U.S. as far as I know. Again, that is not the same thing as legalizing any use of them.
Would the castle doctrine apply to your digital residency?
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
The federal application for a Federal Firearms License, the license needed to be a firearm vendor, not the (as far as I can tell) non-existent federal license to own one?
It isn't just FFLs. The Gun Control Act (GCA) defines a list of people who aren't allowed to ship, transport, receive, or possess firearms of ammo. This includes any person "who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, codified at 21 U.S.C. § 802);" [1]. Since cannabis is federally illegal still if you use it you can't legally even pos…
> "Anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance shall not have the right to vote" or "Anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance shall not have the right to due process".
Not the same thing at all, because a firearm is directly and irrevocably more dangerous while under the influence of drugs.
You can debate the tradeoff of "right to bear arms" vs "right to regulate arms" (just as voting has gone through lots of regulations, some terrible (black people, women), some OK or debatable (showing proof residence or citizenship somewhere in the process), but it's not obvious simply by analogy to other rights.
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#107I would imagine the intelligence services aren't happy he's providing them free pen-test services. He's taking potential tools out of their toolbox when they may need/want them in a future time of conflict.
So if the reds start parachuting down over your community you should just sit pretty lest you interfere with your military’s operations? The equivalence is not a false one in my eyes because a cyberattack against a US national’s systems should be seen as an attack on a US national’s property.
Wow, the 'Reds' is a term which I had not seen in a while, feels like I'm watching an early 80's cold war movie.
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#108It's easy to accuse North Korea. They can't practically respond to the accusations because they have no outlet anyone reads, and if anyone did then nobody would care anyway.
North Korea has Rodong Sinmun, which has an online edition in English. People interested in North Korean politics do read this newspaper. - Website: http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/ - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodong_Sinmun
Hm. So I actually like the form of north korean websites, if these two in this thread are representative of the norm. :) No ads, no trackers, 0 resources blocked in uBlock, no CDNs, clean design not jumping around, to the point without useless stock photos... No modern "design", with thin grayed out unreadable fonts. No webfonts, clean html code. Interesting. :)
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#109I see comments saying that he may be interfering with actual operations against NK or that now that he has done this they are more likely to patch their systems and be more secure, contradicting his own intentions. It's also entirely possible that this action, including the WIRED article and it's high visibility, is part of a broader effort and strategy. In reality we just won't know in this type of situation. Any ca…
True. He may not even exist.
You might be onto something.
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NK's capabilities are vastly overblown. Calling it a "bear" is part of their disinformation strategy, just like Russia. You're amplifying their propaganda.
North Korea's power doesn't come from its technical capabilities in terms of nuclear weapon usage against the United States. North Korea's power comes from its close proximity to South Korea, which is well within striking distance, and how the geopolitical ramifications amplify out. Even with conventional weapons, a re-ignition of hostilities on the Korean peninsula would be disastrous. Relative to Russia, which more…
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