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How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

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Re: How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

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No, it is an entirely fact-based move to reduce the risk of empowering totalitarian regimes with advanced information technology and advanced weapons technology, including nuclear weapons.

Note that the warning comes from South Korea, so are they pushing a racial bias against themselves?

Yes it really sucks to have to endure racial biases, which are a fundamentally stupid way of dividing the world. But that does not mean that everything is an example of such bias.

Re: How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

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It’s from South Korean authorities

still racist, it's the worst kind of racism, brother Vs brother (or possibly more accurate cousins? dunno)

for long term effects of this practice see the Gaza v. Israel fiasco

Re: How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

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No, it is an entirely fact-based move to reduce the risk of empowering totalitarian regimes with advanced information technology and advanced weapons technology, including nuclear weapons. Note that the warning comes from South Korea, so are they pushing a racial bias against themselves? Yes it really sucks to have to endure racial biases, which are a fundamentally stupid way of dividing the world. But that does not…

yes, that's what they're doing.

because they hate North Koreans, because it's part of their government.

how this works is described in "1984" (by Orwell), which is a fictional work.... ahahahhaah

Re: How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

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The first half of the article was pretty general advice that didn't seem to me to have anything more specific with how to deal with North Koreans than how you'd deal with a fraudulent IT freelancer in general.

The second half though was explicitly calling out a country/group, not North Korea, but professors who have Chinese citizenship.

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