Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

nkinternet.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 134 posts

Re: Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

#41

Post by antonymoose »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #40
petcat wrote: post #39

Can we back up and just recognize how insane North Korea is? I think that future generations will look back on our history and wonder why nobody ever did anything about the incredible atrocities that took place in that country for decades .

It will definitely go down as one of the biggest failures of mankind. Especially since it was so easily preventable if MacArthur was permitted to just take the whole peninsula.

Think how many tens of millions could have been saved if we had ended the Soviet Union as Churchill advocated, before the world got nukes.

Re: Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

#42

Post by [deleted] »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #40
petcat wrote: post #39

Can we back up and just recognize how insane North Korea is? I think that future generations will look back on our history and wonder why nobody ever did anything about the incredible atrocities that took place in that country for decades .

It will definitely go down as one of the biggest failures of mankind. Especially since it was so easily preventable if MacArthur was permitted to just take the whole peninsula.

[deleted]

Re: Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

#43

Post by [deleted] »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #40
petcat wrote: post #39

Can we back up and just recognize how insane North Korea is? I think that future generations will look back on our history and wonder why nobody ever did anything about the incredible atrocities that took place in that country for decades .

It will definitely go down as one of the biggest failures of mankind. Especially since it was so easily preventable if MacArthur was permitted to just take the whole peninsula.

[deleted]

Re: Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

#44

Post by timschmidt »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #40
petcat wrote: post #39

Can we back up and just recognize how insane North Korea is? I think that future generations will look back on our history and wonder why nobody ever did anything about the incredible atrocities that took place in that country for decades .

It will definitely go down as one of the biggest failures of mankind. Especially since it was so easily preventable if MacArthur was permitted to just take the whole peninsula.

China was already sending troops and material to the front lines when MacArthur was ordered to stand down. Pushing further would have meant a hot war with China.

Re: Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

#46

Post by petcat »

timschmidt wrote: post #44
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It will definitely go down as one of the biggest failures of mankind. Especially since it was so easily preventable if MacArthur was permitted to just take the whole peninsula.

China was already sending troops and material to the front lines when MacArthur was ordered to stand down. Pushing further would have meant a hot war with China.

A hot war with China in 1950 was going to end quickly with the firepower USA had on-hand.

Re: Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

#47

Post by nephihaha »

petcat wrote: post #39

Can we back up and just recognize how insane North Korea is? I think that future generations will look back on our history and wonder why nobody ever did anything about the incredible atrocities that took place in that country for decades .

North Korea is a buffer state and continues to exist because of China.

Re: Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

#48

Post by anonu »

monerozcash wrote: post #3
superducktoes wrote: post #2

Thanks for sharing my site. Happy to answer any questions

Don't have questions, but your blog is very cool. A bit over a decade ago I used to spend a lot of time hacking North Korean web infrastructure, I mostly found that they tended to have firewalling around almost all boxes exposed to the global internet and usually had pretty impressive reaction times if you tried to access the country intranet through a compromised web server. I've always wondered how successful NSA a…

> this document from 2007

Interesting document - confirming "everyone spies on everyone". Is this from some sort of corporate NSA chat room?

Re: Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

#49

Post by nephihaha »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #36
nephihaha wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Roman Empire merely improved roads in many places. Gaul already had a road system, and the Greek and Egyptian spheres did too.

> Roman Empire merely improved roads in many places /s? This is literally a Monty Python sketch.

Like most Python material that ceased to be funny decades ago thanks to people quoting it endlessly...

The Romans were true imperialists. They considered their opponents to be barbarians, and claimed they lived in wastelands. The truth is more complex. In many places — yes, including Judaea — they inherited infrastructure and buildings. Judaea was previously occupied by the Greeks and a number of other civilisations had left behind remains. The idea that it was terra nullis or a tabula rasa is nonsense. Even Gaul which was considered to be a frontier already had a road system (some of which has been only rediscovered in recent times), and what is now Marseilles was a Greek city going way back before the Roman conquest.

Romanes eunt domum indeed.

Re: Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

#50

Post by nephihaha »

lawlessone wrote: post #26
nephihaha wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Roman Empire merely improved roads in many places. Gaul already had a road system, and the Greek and Egyptian spheres did too.

>The Roman Empire merely improved roads in many places. why did they invest in those roads? They weren't a charity.

So that they could move troops and goods from one place to another.
Post reply on HN