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For that you need intellectuals, and the NK systems killed most of them, and is not tuned to produce new ones. It's very hard to destroy criticism and grow peop
by sametmax 9y ago
For that you need intellectuals, and the NK systems killed most of them, and is not tuned to produce new ones. It's very hard to destroy criticism and grow people who can think.
- ForHackernews 9y agoWhat make you think you need intellectuals to develop technical exploits?
- sametmax 9y agoBecause it requires a brain. A drone can't do it.
- ForHackernews 9y agoDo you really think that technical proficiency requires "intellectualism" as it's normally understood? Because I sure don't. How many developers have you known who were extremely fascinated by the narrow details of a technical problem, and utterly uninterested in the wider application and impact of their work? I've worked with more than a few who fit that description.
- sametmax 9y agoIntellectual just mean people that use their intellect a lot. It's not limited to debating and philosophy. And mathematician is an intellectual. And yes, somebody who has the skill to craft a very low level yet highly flexible malware requires skill that goes beyong copy/paste from stackoverflow.
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- sangnoir 9y agoTo me 'intellectual' conjures an image of highfalutin college academics - that sort of rigor has not been linked to offensive security, historically. If a rag-tag group like Anon or curious but intelligent teenagers can exploit systems, so can a North Korean cyber-division. If you are suggesting that intelligence has been purged out of the North Korean gene pool, I have a bell-curve to show you.