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So your tools get stolen and you take down possibly critical infrastructure for huge numbers of people? Terrorism. Imagine someone did that to America in respo

So your tools get stolen and you take down possibly critical infrastructure for huge numbers of people? Terrorism. Imagine someone did that to America in response to the NSA hacking them (read, most of the world's population all the time since the Bush administration). We celebrate that when it's done to official enemies.

pessimizer 5y ago
The North Korean regime just needs to come in from the cold, like Gaddafi did, which certainly worked out well for him and the Libyan people.
- tehjoker 5y ago
  Just to add context for others that aren't familiar, NK definitely learned from the Libyan experience. It was after Gaddafi got filmed getting bayoneted in the ass for giving up the Libyan nuclear program, North Korea learned to never give up nuclear weapons and accelerated their program.
  - pessimizer 5y ago
    That was one short bayonet for a man, and open air slave markets for the Libyan people: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-ponders-2020-run-lets-not-forget-her-real-libya-scandal-glenn-reynolds-column/895853001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-po... > 'We came, we saw, he died,' she joked. But overthrowing Gadhafi was a humanitarian and strategic debacle that now limits our options on North Korea.
    - emkoemko 5y ago
      and asking Iran to give up having missiles etc after seeing what they did to Libya?
kingkawn 5y ago
Did you read the article?
- tehjoker 5y ago
  They claim that this only affects "propaganda websites" but I honestly do not know how North Koreans use the intranet and what kind of access they have outside the country. Do you see reporters doing in-depth interviews regularly or NK citizens on english language websites? We should be very careful to qualify what we actually know about this country as it is a regime change target. This means most of what we read in the news about it will be war propaganda.
boomboomsubban 5y ago
I'd bet that this hacker has personally been targeted by US intelligence agencies, if not before this event certainly after. Yet somehow I doubt he will attempt to take down the entire cointries internet or start a FU USA group.

pessimizer 5y ago

The North Korean regime just needs to come in from the cold, like Gaddafi did, which certainly worked out well for him and the Libyan people.

tehjoker 5y ago
Just to add context for others that aren't familiar, NK definitely learned from the Libyan experience. It was after Gaddafi got filmed getting bayoneted in the ass for giving up the Libyan nuclear program, North Korea learned to never give up nuclear weapons and accelerated their program.
- pessimizer 5y ago
  That was one short bayonet for a man, and open air slave markets for the Libyan people: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-ponders-2020-run-lets-not-forget-her-real-libya-scandal-glenn-reynolds-column/895853001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-po... > 'We came, we saw, he died,' she joked. But overthrowing Gadhafi was a humanitarian and strategic debacle that now limits our options on North Korea.
  - emkoemko 5y ago
    and asking Iran to give up having missiles etc after seeing what they did to Libya?

kingkawn 5y ago

Did you read the article?

tehjoker 5y ago
They claim that this only affects "propaganda websites" but I honestly do not know how North Koreans use the intranet and what kind of access they have outside the country. Do you see reporters doing in-depth interviews regularly or NK citizens on english language websites? We should be very careful to qualify what we actually know about this country as it is a regime change target. This means most of what we read in the news about it will be war propaganda.

boomboomsubban 5y ago

I'd bet that this hacker has personally been targeted by US intelligence agencies, if not before this event certainly after. Yet somehow I doubt he will attempt to take down the entire cointries internet or start a FU USA group.