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North Korean Central News Agency server logs protected by client-side JavaScript
- NKCSS 13y agoFunny find, but who cares? It's stated as if there would be repercussions for reading the KCNA website?
- spodek 13y agoHacker News loves North Korea. It can't get enough of the place.
- thibauts 13y agoCongratulations, you got the sysadmin executed.
- lignuist 13y agoLet's hope they have no version control history...
- Rantenki 13y agoSadly, that might lead to the entire development team getting executed.
- dominotw 13y agoIts usually three generations not just the person responsible, from what I read.
- consonants 13y agoYup, a whole lineage is either dead or in a prison camp for making a mockery of Juche networking.
- pothibo 13y agoSomeone got sent to the gulags for using javascript in places he shouldn't have. Who said programming wasn't dangerous? :P
- mhoad 13y agoI say this as a bit of a closet NK watcher and as someone who visited DPRK back in August but in all likely hood there most likely were / will be very very real and unfortunate consequences for whoever was responsible for this. I'm trying very hard not to do the moral high horse thing but maybe chill out on the jokes a bit?
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- pothibo 13y agoI think that jokes and seriousness are not mutually exclusive. I made a small joke at the end of my comment not because I thought sending someone to the gulag is funny, but because speaking of serious stuff doesn't need to be all dark and serious, if you know what I mean. Never been to NK but from what I read, it seems like we would have made the world a favor if we'd invaded NK instead of Iraq (I know it's not practical and NK's invasion would be much, much harder than Iraq).
- mhoad 13y agoIt's fine, it's just the nature of reading words on a screen with no other context. I don't disagree with your sentiment at all I guess the thought of this turning into a complete "look how stupid they are haha" thread made me slightly uneasy is all.
- pothibo 13y agoI can't say for other people but I can assure you my comment wasn't meant to say that they were stupid. They are like 15 years behind us in term of computer science. 15 years ago, I bet many services had javascript security like this one. The outcome is the only thing that might be different. Anyhow, I enjoyed this discussion ;)
- shubb 13y agoRegarding your last paragraph, the operation plans for conflict with north korea are sumarized on wikipedia. They essentially predict the north of south korea would be overrun, following artillary bombardment around the border / later Seol. Then the remaining south must hold until marines from the mainland US and Japan can arrive, and then there would be a long and costly war to push back into NK (which the US would win, providing public oppinion held). There is some evidence that in that sort of situation, China would invade North Korea, taking the northern third of the country. This could help the US, or create wider conflict, depending on how it played out. Iraq and Afganistan were not wars on the same scale as Vietnam or WW2. NK probably would be. We can all hope it doesn't happen.
- eonil 13y agoThis is a feature, not a bug. There's no concept of privacy in NK.
- willbill 13y agoIf you want to learn about NK read "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick. Interviews with refugees.
- ToastyMallows 13y agoI'm almost finished with this book. GREAT read, I recommend it to anyone that wants to learn about North Korea.
- BrandonMarc 13y agoThis post - The Story of Oh - is another great one to read: http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/07/16/the-story-of-oh/ http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/07/16/the-story-of-... Oh Kil-nam is a South Korean man who received his PhD in Germany, decided to defect there with his wife and two children in 1986. Read the story, is all I can say.
- ansgri 13y agoAlso, Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden.