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The linux distro is probably unpatched to every linux vulnerability discovered in the last 10 years-easy to get a shell and start an attack. You assume NK peop

The linux distro is probably unpatched to every linux vulnerability discovered in the last 10 years-easy to get a shell and start an attack. You assume NK people think like Americans. Every scientist is working out of fear and therefore is doing the minimal amount possible to not be scolded. I lived in a communist country and the same way the economy was in the hole, so was scientific advancement. A good analogy is Cuba- they have one of the most rigorous schools for becoming a doctor, but they wouldn't know how to operate an MRI since none exist in the country. An NK citizen may have taken security class at an university, but may not have the talent, like a logical anarchist, required to become a great hacker. The number of skilled, motivated hackers outside NK is greater than those inside. Look at the video-how do you find the 10x programmer in that computer lab? NK's way of keeping 24M people from protesting is by controlling INFORMATION. To have a hacker untraceable and talented enough to enter SONY, they must be read on the latest trends. This same hacker, if informed, would be smart enough to google his way out of the horrible living conditions in NK. The nuke scientists copied 1950's tech. To me this sounds like the WMD's of the early 2000's. If NK doesn't have any credibility they will be easily blamed for political leverage with no evidence. I welcome the FBI to open source the malware, traffic and trace logs for community analysis. Come back and read this comment when hackers acquire this data themselves and provide technical proof of NK NOT being at fault.

lotsofmangos 12y ago
A good analogy is Cuba- they have one of the most rigorous schools for becoming a doctor, but they wouldn't know how to operate an MRI since none exist in the country. A report here from 2006 says otherwise: Cuba spends ∼16% of its GNP directly on the health system, roughly $320 per year per person. As would be expected, tertiary medical facilities lack both the amenities and the technology found in industrialized countries. A recent modernization campaign, however, has brought interventional cardiology and MRI, for example, to the 48 referral hospitals and ultrasound and endoscopy to polyclinics. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/817.full http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/817.full
DanBC 12y ago
I am responding specifically to the part that says NK could not have sophisticated hackers, not whether those hackers did it or not. > NK's way of keeping 24M people from protesting is by controlling INFORMATION. To have a hacker untraceable and talented enough to enter SONY, they must be read on the latest trends. This same hacker, if informed, would be smart enough to google his way out of the horrible living conditions in NK. The nuke scientists copied 1950's tech. Can you explain people living outside DPRK ho align to DPRK? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongryon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongryon > The other main organization is called Mindan, the Korean Residents Union In Japan, and consists of Zainichi Koreans who have adopted South Korean nationality. Currently, among 610,000 Korean residents in Japan who have not adopted Japanese nationality, 25 percent are members of Chongryon, and 65 percent are members of Mindan. Chongryon's strong links to North Korea, its allegiance to the North Korean ideology and its opposition to integration of Koreans into Japanese society have made it the more controversial of the two organisations in Japan.

lotsofmangos 12y ago

A good analogy is Cuba- they have one of the most rigorous schools for becoming a doctor, but they wouldn't know how to operate an MRI since none exist in the country. A report here from 2006 says otherwise: Cuba spends ∼16% of its GNP directly on the health system, roughly $320 per year per person. As would be expected, tertiary medical facilities lack both the amenities and the technology found in industrialized countries. A recent modernization campaign, however, has brought interventional cardiology and MRI, for example, to the 48 referral hospitals and ultrasound and endoscopy to polyclinics. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/817.full http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/817.full

DanBC 12y ago

I am responding specifically to the part that says NK could not have sophisticated hackers, not whether those hackers did it or not. > NK's way of keeping 24M people from protesting is by controlling INFORMATION. To have a hacker untraceable and talented enough to enter SONY, they must be read on the latest trends. This same hacker, if informed, would be smart enough to google his way out of the horrible living conditions in NK. The nuke scientists copied 1950's tech. Can you explain people living outside DPRK ho align to DPRK? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongryon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongryon > The other main organization is called Mindan, the Korean Residents Union In Japan, and consists of Zainichi Koreans who have adopted South Korean nationality. Currently, among 610,000 Korean residents in Japan who have not adopted Japanese nationality, 25 percent are members of Chongryon, and 65 percent are members of Mindan. Chongryon's strong links to North Korea, its allegiance to the North Korean ideology and its opposition to integration of Koreans into Japanese society have made it the more controversial of the two organisations in Japan.