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That's possible, but the general consensus is this (FTA): "The country is said to have a fairly large internal domestic internet disconnected from the rest of
by azernik 12y ago
That's possible, but the general consensus is this (FTA):
"The country is said to have a fairly large internal domestic internet disconnected from the rest of the world. Most citizens with access to computers are only allowed to access this network, not the global computer network the rest of us connect to."
That is, absolutely, the official IP space is assigned to government and government-affiliated institutions. The rest of the local internet isn't in the Chinese address space, though; it's instead on a disconnected network with its own address space allocations, which may overlap with addresses in the rest of the world's IPv4 instance.
- threeseed 12y agoI've been to North Korea and confirm this is accurate. They have an internal intranet with message boards etc. Pretty dated. Also when Indian contractors were brought in to work on the pyramid hotel in Pyongyang I was told that they had a special network provided by NK government which curiously had full access to everything e.g. Facebook etc.
- gwern 12y agoNo, I meant, it seems unlikely that the sum total, grand total, whole kit and kaboodle of all NK Internet activity is solely confined to the tiny handful of easily attacked, easily monitored IP addresses officially assigned to NK. Completely ignoring the intranet, I would expect there to be a great deal of NK Internet activity which is occurring in Chinese IP ranges.