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A coded message from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- caretak3r 6y agoThis is brilliant. And here I thought the NorthKoreaDNSLeak back in 2016 was something to pour hours over, this is a treat !
- optymizer 6y agoI, like others on HN, am confused as to what this is, but you seem excited about it. Would you care to explain what this information represents? Is it a puzzle? Is it a leak from NK? What's the relevance of a book, an index of some server with music, and how does it all tie to disinformation campaign mentioned at the top of the readme?
- dmichulke 6y agoI think what op means is it's a huge waste of time.
- rethab 6y agoWhat is this? Can somebody please explain?
- neurobashing 6y agoit _seems_ to be someone's "open-source intelligence" documentation of NK comms; numbers stations and other secret communications. There also seems to be some propaganda mixed in, with the implication it's also somehow tradecraft.
- scoopertrooper 6y agoNorth Korea supposedly still uses numbers stations to contact infiltrators. Though, they may just keep the stations as a way to ratchet up tensions with South Korea, given that numbers stations are a bit anachronistic. Who knows! It's interesting though. https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200829002300315 https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200829002300315 https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=155915 https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Cod... They've done it before as well (better source + more detail, but less current): https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/world/asia/north-korea-spy-radio-broadcasts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/world/asia/north-korea-sp... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
- me_me_me 6y agoNumbers stations are really cool. Its kinda sad to see them slowly fade away.
- akie 6y agoIMO this nonsensical gibberish has no place on this site.
- inopinatus 6y agoIs this some kind of ARG for conspiracy nuts, like the numbers stations?
- mhh__ 6y agoI haven't parsed it fully but it looks like an attempt to annotate north korean tradecraft? Numbers stations do exist (not legally but still), but keep in mind that these days you could just leave comments on hackernews aligning with words in a book (as your OTP), for example.
- me_me_me 6y agoNumbers stations are real and are very simple. Back in the day all major spy agencies would operate them. Simple but effective. You can send coded messages via radio waves, to receive them you only need a radio. You can send them from your country so enemy state(s) cannot stop you from doing it short of invasion/sabotage. If spies are using none reused one time codebook its impossible to decode message without the codebook. Because of its nature you cannot really catch anyone receiving signal. The only downside is that its one way communication and if somehow spy gets caught than their codebook can be used for decoding of the messages (but each spy would have unique book). So even that could have small fallout.
- yreg 6y agoThe Readme would benefit from a more exhausting explanation of what this is. Not just "A global message from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
- tvalentius 6y agoIs this one of those interactive puzzle thingy?
- exdsq 6y agoI've spent 10 minutes trying to understand this, including watching the YouTube video with autotranslated subtitles, and still have no clue what it's about.
- Normille 6y agovfvv eerv eeaf rere gere rsve nerb vrbe lrgv! as we used to say in the KGB
- nosmokewhereiam 6y agoThis disappeared. There were two other forks, but now I can't find them. It was interesting analysis, couldn't find blatant inaccuracies.