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i hope no poor IT engineer in NK and his family for 10 generations isnt going to be sent to workcamps because of this joke.
Such 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?
Every resistance action carried out by every resistance group against tyranny throughout history has been washed in the blood of people who did nothing wrong.
I'm unsure on the ethics of this. Yes only the elite have the internet, but also the internet is likely used internally for communication, which is important for resource distribution. I don't give two shits about the elite in NK, but the starving folks living there have my deepest sympathy. I'm lucky to have a lot of advantages, and I can't help but see many of them as an accident of birth.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The starving, and heavily repressed citizens do not have access to the internet in NK. This attack did not affect any of them to any extent. Whom it did affect a bit, hopefully, were the people complicit in the repressive dictatorship that runs the country. The repressive dictatorship that engages in, among many other bad things, scams and online fraud to partially finance the country. For this they of course use the…
Good result. There's rarely such a thing as a clear, objectively simple 'good result' for this sort of action because outcomes have knock-on effects. For example, if the North Koreans responsible for maintaining internet access were executed over this that diminishes the result significantly.
How much exposure of the regular internet do North Korean hackers have? What are the odds of turning them?
None. This was a middle finger to the NK State apparatus and that's about all.
Such 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?
As an analogy, we should have empathy for homeless people stuck in poverty, but if one of them continually bikes to your house and tries to break in, is it morally dubious to eventually take their bike chain rather than just shooing them away each attempt? I imagine the moral razor would fall on similar lines.
Such 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?
It's not like he went in out of pure malice or anything though, they were trying to hack him first. Not saying it's some morally pristine thing, but it definitely communicated what it was trying to communicate. As an analogy, we should have empathy for homeless people stuck in poverty, but if one of them continually bikes to your house and tries to break in, is it morally dubious to eventually take their bike chain r…
I'm shocked that he shows his face and identifies himself willingly
Big "lifelock" vibes...and if I understand it correctly, that lifelock character has had his identity successfully stolen and impacted multiple times. Sometimes the person who says "I'm really smart, like mensa level", does some really ignorant and stupid things.
Why isn’t he in prison? I mean, going by the West’s own laws, or the spirit of them, anyway. Unless he is part of said West’s Armed Forces, in which case this would get really close to a casus belli .
"the West" has to keep some degree of not officially caring to avoid being backed into a policy corner and has no incentive to take law enforcement action when threat actors in those other countries operate with impunity. We're already well into causus belli territory with NK, but nobody wants to go there: https://x.com/tarah/status/1798036415932187127
These 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?
That’s cool and neat for guerrilla warfare, but I would assume the NSA and DoD are already aware of that possibility? I wouldn’t even be surprised if they saw the DDoS happening on network monitoring tools. Why clandestine meetings for that?
I get why the media is interested, it’s an awesome story.