I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA • Hacker News Board

Re: I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA

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Post by codezero » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 3:16 AM UTC

sim7c00 wrote: post #170

codezero wrote: post #101

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The only person to blame for that behavior is the chaotic and capricious dictator taking these actions against the population he is oppressing.

just like car manufacturers are the only people responsible for accidents on the road?

No. Not at all.

Re: I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA

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Post by euphetar » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 10:33 AM UTC

It's 100% clear why his I initiative was buried. The guy is a reckless egomaniac jerk. He is very transparent that he would do illegal stuff on a whim, target civillians, escalate conflict with other nations without even consulting a superior, and then reveal his face to the whole world, spilling secrets left and right, for a minute of internet publicity. And do a reddit AMA. And put "I am single LOL" there, showing just how much he can be trusted with leading a government cyberwarfare task force

What I read is that guy did a clever DDoS, which is mildly impressive, and decided to become a twitter celebrity/NK assassination victim. I am no hacker, but I expect real hackers to be laughing their asses off.

Re: I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA

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Post by DEADMINCE » Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 12:03 AM UTC

consumer451 wrote: post #151

csunbird wrote: post #141

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NSA and similar agencies are probably even mad at him, because he exposed the weakness that they could have exploited when needed, which is probably now patched.

> NSA and similar agencies are probably even mad at him, because he exposed the weakness that they could have exploited when needed, which is probably now patched. Then they should have caught this when he came forward to multiple agencies, and was told that no one cared. Please see my related comment as to why I submitted his AMA to HN. It's to bring to light this egregious lapse in US gov procedures: https://news.y…

> It's to bring to light this egregious lapse in US gov procedures:

There is no lapse, egregious or otherwise. This kid is playing in a game he doesn't fully understand, and likely just annoying people who have been playing the game a lot longer and at a deeper level than he is.

He thinks being able to DDoS chokepoint routers with $5000 worth of VMs to spam traffic is an amazing discovery. It isn't. That's why no one cares.