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It's easy to accuse North Korea. They can't practically respond to the accusations because they have no outlet anyone reads, and if anyone did then nobody would
by schwanky 5y ago
It's easy to accuse North Korea. They can't practically respond to the accusations because they have no outlet anyone reads, and if anyone did then nobody would care anyway.
- lelandfe 5y agoImplying that the hacking attributed to NK might have been a false flag?
- dash2 5y agoIndeed another person quoted in the article suggests that the hacking might have come from China.
- eclipsenet 5y agoThat's the wrong takeaway from that bit though I think. I believe they are saying that China and other states are the actors on behalf of NK not that they are using NK as patsies ... granted that may also be true. International politics and espionage is a weird domain.
- ummonk 5y agoI think the implication is that these are North Korean hackers stationed in China, not that China is doing it on their behalf.
- ncmncm 5y agoNK trains up and operates hacking groups to generate income, not just to be unpleasant. So, guessing that would mean NK is renting out hacking services to China. Other ways to generate income from hacking is operating a ransomware gang, renting out botnets, and gathering banking passwords to use in draining accounts. We may assume they are involved in all of the above.
- commoner 5y agoNorth Korea has Rodong Sinmun, which has an online edition in English. People interested in North Korean politics do read this newspaper. - Website: http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/ http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/ - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodong_Sinmun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodong_Sinmun
- Shank 5y agoThey also have KCNA, which they also use to communicate: http://kcna.kp http://kcna.kp
- megous 5y agoHm. So I actually like the form of north korean websites, if these two in this thread are representative of the norm. :) No ads, no trackers, 0 resources blocked in uBlock, no CDNs, clean design not jumping around, to the point without useless stock photos... No modern "design", with thin grayed out unreadable fonts. No webfonts, clean html code. Interesting. :)
- lelandfe 5y ago...unresponsive, loads articles in pop-up windows, uses http/1.1 so resources are downloaded serially, has all JS in critical path....
- nkrisc 5y agoNorth Korea destroyed their own credibility.
- npteljes 5y agoAnd if the systems are as vulnerable as one would think, then they are also an attractive target for a false flag operation, I'd think.