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North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30180566 - Feb 2022 (238 comments)
I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
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#72Such an attack is, IMO, morally dubious. North Korea is a poor country with millions of starving citizens, and rather than sending food aid, you broke down their only comms to the rest of the world?
I dont agree. Did you send food aid to North korea? And if you did, are you sure it was not used to feed the guards? I find sending food instead of trying to destroy the regime a morally dubious thing to do for exactly this reason...
Food aid rarely reaches the people who need it. The North Korean regime is notorious for diverting aid, or selling to finance its nuclear program. Responsible food distribution requires careful monitoring, which the regime rejects. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSEO369467/
Re: I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
#73Talk about delusions of grandeur. He knocked a few public facing HTTP hosts offline, amazing! I can “a bring down North Korea’s internet” aka a few public hosts for a week too if I rent Lizard Squads stresser for $400 a week. What’s supposed to be impressive about that?
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why isn’t he in prison? Not an enforcement priority for the same reason a lot of domestic abuse goes unprotected: the victim is uncoöperative. > going by the West’s own laws, or the spirit of them, anyway Pyongyang and prosecutors would have to show he attacked a “protected computer” under the CFAA [1]. Given the two routers he allegedly overwhelmed were internet connected, that shouldn’t technically be hard under…
Privateering is back, baby!
It's already back, Russian, Chinese and North Korean hacking groups receive state funding and cover.
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#75I'm a little confused by the news stories about this. Did he take down their country-wide network, or just the few lines in and out of the country? It seems like he just hit a few NK websites and they everything stopped responding to him. Its like cutting the uk-europe power links and saying you took down all of the UK's power infrastructure
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#76I'm a little confused by the news stories about this. Did he take down their country-wide network, or just the few lines in and out of the country? It seems like he just hit a few NK websites and they everything stopped responding to him. Its like cutting the uk-europe power links and saying you took down all of the UK's power infrastructure
Only the lines in/out. NK has their own intranet which is completely separate from the global internet, which was presumably entirely unaffected by this.
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#77Talk about delusions of grandeur. He knocked a few public facing HTTP hosts offline, amazing! I can “a bring down North Korea’s internet” aka a few public hosts for a week too if I rent Lizard Squads stresser for $400 a week. What’s supposed to be impressive about that?
No, he knocked out the two routers serving the entire country. NK sites were inaccessible to the outside world, and outside sites were inaccessible to NK.
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#78These supposed messages between him and the state department lead me to believe it's either all or mostly exagerations or lies: https://imgur.com/a/s-lX6inGA Maybe it's just my lack of knowledge of some regionalism, but doesn't it seem very odd that a technical person would use "in the open source", to refer not to code, but to a PR article on some news website?
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#79I'm a little confused by the news stories about this. Did he take down their country-wide network, or just the few lines in and out of the country? It seems like he just hit a few NK websites and they everything stopped responding to him. Its like cutting the uk-europe power links and saying you took down all of the UK's power infrastructure
Only the lines in/out. NK has their own intranet which is completely separate from the global internet, which was presumably entirely unaffected by this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)
So not really much effect on the system then, overall
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#80Is anyone mining bitcoin in DPRK ?
I highly doubt that, it’s quite a lot for the system to power the 1% elites, the palace, and the ballistic missile factories.