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Vigilante hacker attacks foreign nation internet infrastructure on behalf of the U.S. without the U.S.'s consent and wants to encourage the U.S. to perform more similar cyber attacks, but witout the approval of the chain of command, without thinking of the repercussions on international relations.
I don't know, but this doesn't sond likea good idea.
Yeah good point on the anger glasses. He sounds like an agressive type of dude. Says he worked for Blackwater? The mercenaries company known for their crimes against humanity in Iraq, if I'm not mistaken? What normal person would want to work there?
my understanding is that the only NK citizens that have access to the actual internet is microscopic and concentrated in information warfare / scams.
I do love me some links to read after a nice pithy comment :D
Are you laboring under the false impression that the average citizens of North Korea have, forget regular, but ANY access to the internet? Carpet bombing doesn't work if you're already a ghost.
No. No I'm just calling out that this particular cyberattack was not as impactful to the everyman of North Korea as it would fit any other, more modernized country. Your point gains more validity the more networked a country is.
The article is paywalled. Did you read all of it? Does it specifically quote the author as saying "I want the same baseline response. Doesn't matter who I attack"? Because I didn't see that, but I didn't bother to bypass the paywall. If you did and it's in there, cool, guys a weirdo. If not, quit making up shit to fill out your narrative. You don't know any better than anyone else unless you asked him or are him.
I'll have you know I'm fully baked, and don't have any reason not to express myself here, so naturally, I'ma gonna.
Well, bless your heart. I can remember when I used to mistake stuff like this as the want for people to talk with me; we're not so different after all.
I generally agree with you but isn't the n Korean internet only used by the government and whatever rich people can afford it? I say fuck em.
Not trying to change your mind but if the general public has internet it's definitely just intranet. There's no way they're getting anything close to what we would recognize as the internet. Maybe I'm buying propaganda but I just can't fathom the possibility.
they aren't random people, NK users of the internet have explicit ties to scams and hacking. The rest never get to access the WWW.
lol, it'd undermine my argument if I was, wouldn't it? Not sure if you're being intentionally dense or just... obtuse. But here's some further reading for you, you do you budnik.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/657312/north-koreas-state-hacking-program-is-varied-fluid-and-nimble.html
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-at-hearing-warren-warns-of-threats-posed-by-north-koreas-crypto-funded-weapons-program-and-pig-butchering-scams-to-national-security
No more than you are to assert the opposite, sir.
I might need to go back and find sources but I could have sworn I read a thing that had Kim directly saying that it isn't allowed among the general populace because it's full of US propaganda. Same reason why jeans aren't allowed.
Edit: I want to clarify that I would prefer the general populace had the internet so they could more easily educate themselves but AFAIK they don't.
Yes.
Wikipedia
It sounds like a Hollywood movie. "Hacker tattoos"? Single person took on an entire country? I dunno, something about this is off, like it's too juicy of a story for Wired to scrutinize it properly and there's really more (or less) to the story.
Yeah, especially since the NSA or FBI or CIA has never accepted the dude's methods. And he's the only one giving his own testimoy about all of this. It's weird.
Are you saying you don't keep your pgp key tattooed on your face? How do people know if they are actually talking to you then?