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North Korea suffering major internet outages: Report

Re: Reports: North Korea knocked offline

Does anyone in North Korea besides "inner party" officials even have a computer?

There is only - one computer; it's called - North Korea.
 
Re: Reports: North Korea knocked offline

Does anyone in North Korea besides "inner party" officials even have a computer?

I seem to recall reading that the NK Sony hackers worked from Thailand.
 
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DPRK's internet has been knocked completely offline. Looks like a cyber attack, but the US is not taking responsibility. I wonder who is responsible ;)[/FONT][/COLOR]

WOW!!!

This sounds kind of like wiping out the snow removal infrastructure in Dade County, Fla.
 
Since they can't waste their time online maybe now they'll do some serious thinking about the consequences of hacking, eh? :roll:

With North Korea's "thinking" constrained by Kim il-Sung's "Juche" and Kim Jong-il's "Songun" doctrines, one may question whether there is any latitude for serious thinking among its leadership. Hopefully, North Korea will begin to understand that it cannot attack countries or companies in cyberspace with impunity. The latter doctrine might well lead North Korea to attempt to retaliate in cyberspace. Then, a stronger response might be needed. Ultimately, the costs of such attacks should greatly exceed their benefits, especially if the U.S. re-lists North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism and, especially, if the U.S. adopts restrictions on humanitarian aid (which tragically is largely diverted to the regime and its supporters).

Patience and firmness can begin to shift North Korea's calculus. Although Sony's capitulation complicated matters, the President has handled this situation quite well, so far.
 
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WOW!!!

This sounds kind of like wiping out the snow removal infrastructure in Dade County, Fla.

LOL. Yeah, that's true.

Well, you know. Play with your toys irresponsibly, they'll be taken away. I think Kim Jong-un needs to mature a bit more.
 
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i dedicate this cut to President Obama
 
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DPRK's internet has been knocked completely offline. Looks like a cyber attack, but the US is not taking responsibility. I wonder who is responsible ;)[/FONT][/COLOR]



Didn't anonymous threaten to attack the Norks? imagine the USG and anonymous working hand in hand.
 
I hope it's us doing this. If it is, i hope we knock it offline for a good long time. Let the Midget Commie Freak choke on that.
 
Have they tried unplugging their router then plugging it back in?
 
To quote my mother when I was a teenager: "If you can't be responsible with the internet, you're grounded, mister. No internet."

To quote my mother when I was a teenager: "What the hell's the Internet?"
 
Though it's annoying how some of the major media takes North Korea's military threats seriously, the same North Korea who said they'd turn South Korea to ash.

North Korea DOES have the ability to turn South Korea to ash. They can get South Koreans laughing so hard at them that they catch on fire. LOL.
 
Word is Team BO, also asked the Chinese to pressure N Korea. Which the Chinese provide their Internet. So it may not be us that did it.....per se.

Then again the N Koreans could be doing it to prepare for whatever BO was going to drop on them. Like Syria and Assad did to prevent less damage to their systems.
 
"The White House declined to comment Monday. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters that of the federal government responses, "some will be seen, some may not be seen."

Doug Madory (Muh-DOOR-ee), director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, said the Internet connectivity problems were discovered in the last 24 hours and have gotten progressively worse to the point that "North Korea'stotally down." North Korea Experiences Severe Internet Outages; White House Won't Comment

White House refuses to comment.... Hmmmmmm I think this may just be the start of retaliation.
 
From CNBC:



North Korea suffering major Internet outages: Report

Although it's too soon to know if the U.S. has responded to North Korea's cyber attack, and there may never be public acknowledgement, this development may at least give North Korea reason to begin to think about the consequences of its misuse of cyberspace. Moreover, were North Korea to retaliate, an even more substantial U.S. response could begin to develop deterrence.


Sweet. :wink2:
 
"The White House declined to comment Monday. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters that of the federal government responses, "some will be seen, some may not be seen."

Doug Madory (Muh-DOOR-ee), director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, said the Internet connectivity problems were discovered in the last 24 hours and have gotten progressively worse to the point that "North Korea'stotally down." North Korea Experiences Severe Internet Outages; White House Won't Comment

White House refuses to comment.... Hmmmmmm I think this may just be the start of retaliation.



Only one problem with the scenario that I see. It would mean we would have to do something to the Chinese. Which they could agree to allow us to do so. Or they might just get a bit upset about that.



Since the United States has turned to China to pressure North Korea, it is also conceivable China's supplier of North Korea's Internet, China Unicom, closed access, or an outside group, hackers or a foreign government, has overloaded North Korea's broadband traffic.

Read more: North Korea loses all Internet connectivity - UPI.com
 
What's more pathetic is that the movie theaters cancelled all showings because of some petty threats that would never be able to be carried out.

Whatever, I'm not the moron losing millions of dollars.

Terrorism is one of the easiest things in the world to do. All it takes is a couple of N.K. sympathizers and a little ammo and boom! 125 dead people in a theater. Or a guy in a comic book outfit with a couple of semi-automatic rifles, and rat tat tat tat tat....75 people shot, including babies. That's why it's used as a tool. Anyone can do it, anywhere, any time. Almost impossible to protect against it, esp in a free society.
 
Only one problem with the scenario that I see. It would mean we would have to do something to the Chinese. Which they could agree to allow us to do so. Or they might just get a bit upset about that.



Since the United States has turned to China to pressure North Korea, it is also conceivable China's supplier of North Korea's Internet, China Unicom, closed access, or an outside group, hackers or a foreign government, has overloaded North Korea's broadband traffic.

Read more: North Korea loses all Internet connectivity - UPI.com


It was my understanding that the U.S. turned to China for more than putting pressure on N. Korea. It's China's techie skills, etc.
 
Only one problem with the scenario that I see. It would mean we would have to do something to the Chinese. Which they could agree to allow us to do so. Or they might just get a bit upset about that.

Meh we could just do it DDoS their servers, and we very well could be working with the Chinese.
 
Meh we could just do it DDoS their servers, and we very well could be working with the Chinese.


So far they have not responded back or came out blaming us. Plus I think they would be talking to the Chinese, if they knew it was coming from an outside source.





It is possible North Korea's Internet access simply crashed on its own due to poor maintenance, or that the government shut it down unilaterally, as Syria's has done in the past, to prevent those with Internet access to gain international perspective on the hacking attack.....snip~

Read more: North Korea loses all Internet connectivity - UPI.com
 
It was my understanding that the U.S. turned to China for more than putting pressure on N. Korea. It's China's techie skills, etc.


Heya JJ
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Yep, we did.
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So far they have not responded back or came out blaming us. Plus I think they would be talking to the Chinese, if they knew it was coming from an outside source.
"As we implement our responses, some will be seen, some may not be seen."
-US State Department spokesman Marie Harf




It is possible North Korea's Internet access simply crashed on its own due to poor maintenance, or that the government shut it down unilaterally, as Syria's has done in the past, to prevent those with Internet access to gain international perspective on the hacking attack.....snip~

Read more: North Korea loses all Internet connectivity - UPI.com

"The situation now is they are totally offline. This isn't normal for them. Usually they are up solid. It is kind of out of the ordinary. This is not like anything I've seen before," Doug Maddry of Dyn Research, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., told Bloomberg News, the website Engadget reported.
 
...or that the government shut it down unilaterally, as Syria's has done in the past, to prevent those with Internet access to gain international perspective on the hacking attack....

This scenario is doubtful. From CNN:

"After 24hrs of increasing instability, North Korean national Internet has been down hard for more than 2hrs," Dyn Research posted on Twitter on Monday.

North Korea's Internet disrupted, analyst says - CNN.com
 
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