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Will China allow NK to fall apart?
Would it be worth it for China to prop them up? I get that they're communism buddies or whatever, but what does China get out of it? What does China really need from North Korea?
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I had the same thought, i'm very confused about the details of the attacks. As an ISP if they detect you doing it, and they control DNS servers, maybe they mark your account for death, and they could like randomly hijack you going to google.com to some download for malware, and unsuspecting user clicks accept? Not sure, i'm curious how they pulled this off.
Any http exe-file download could be hijacked if you are an ISP. Maybe KT have some "dailup login" app the user needs to login with?
Did they exploit a vulnerability or MITM the traffic somehow? Edit: While looking for an answer, I ran across this article. Apparently they've been fighting for a while (2015): https://www.opennetkorea.org/en/wp/1529
>Police officials acted on the information and discovered it came from KT’s own data center south of Seoul. ... They’ve since identified and charged 13 individuals, including KT employees and subcontractors directly connected to the malware attack last November,... I'm actually very impressed. If this happened in the US, the police wouldn't care about it at all, and would just tell everyone affected that "it's a civi…
> If this happened in the US Perhaps this would be a good moment to pause and ask yourself why this hasn’t happened in the US.
Hell Joseon strikes again. For context, the legal situation of network usage in South Korea is something akin to Ajit Pai's wet dream. Network operators are legally empowered to charge troll tolls on both ends of any connection they want. Infrastructure costs are to be borne by literally anyone BUT the network operators. To compound this, South Korea is economically an authoritarian hellscape. Large megacorporations[…
I mean, you're assuming that an SK Telecom executive did something illegal. I don't think anyone here is a supporter of corruption, but you're making a huge, completely unjustified leap to say that an SK executive was involved.
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I remember visiting SK back in 2005-6, and the only way to get online was to install an IE plugin.
In early 2000s I used those Korean SIN number generators to access mmorpgs I stopped when my cousin told me it was illegal Have a lot of fond memories when there was a mini mmorpg bubble in korea N-age still going strong it seems in 2024 ! So many rare unique korean mmorpg that will never see the light of the day!
South Korea information technology (as distinguished from hardware-related technology) is unbelievably bad. Much of it is purely technical: domestic firms like Naver are simply not as good as global incumbents like Google, but also they are terrible compared to other regional players (The Kakao chat app is vastly inferior to Zalo, a Vietnamese chat app). However, just as much is due to poor cultural and interpersonal…
Odd statement. How did you know that the people you met are "top programmers?"
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It's also worth noting the SK has some pretty terrible laws around the internet in general. Distribution of porn is illegal there and they do their best to block it from outside. They are pretty big on cyber defamation and will go after people who make fun of government officials[0]. They have a comparatively low internet freedom score because they do things like fine middle schoolers for having anti-government websi…
> the great American past time is complaining about the government. But in SK there's a lot more trust of the government Are they really more trusting of the government in south korea or is that just what people will say if you ask them? If my government aggressively went after every youtuber and literal child who dared to say bad things about the government I'd probably lie and say I trusted my government too whenev…
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I remember visiting SK back in 2005-6, and the only way to get online was to install an IE plugin.
In early 2000s I used those Korean SIN number generators to access mmorpgs I stopped when my cousin told me it was illegal Have a lot of fond memories when there was a mini mmorpg bubble in korea N-age still going strong it seems in 2024 ! So many rare unique korean mmorpg that will never see the light of the day!