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It's Alarmingly Easy To Take North Korea's Internet Offline
Business Insider ^
| 12/23/2014
| Armin Rosen
Posted on 12/23/2014 3:51:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Sony hacking saga took an even stranger turn yesterday when North Korea lost internet access for roughly 9 1/2 hours. The cause of the outage can't be conclusively determined.
But it appears likely that the country's paltry web infrastructure which consists of a mere four networks and just over 1,000 IP addresses was the target of a distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) conceivably motivated in some way by the events surrounding last month's Sony breach and the controversy surrounding The Interview.
The North Korean outage was both an utterly empty gesture and evidence of how nearly anyone can spark a potential international incident if sufficiently motivated to do so.
There are few countries where the internet is less embedded in daily life than North Korea, where web access is severely curtailed and internet outages have almost no practical impact on the vast majority of the population. And the country's network is so underdeveloped, and so unprotected, that any actor capable of launching a moderately-sized DDOS attack could potentially take it down.
"The pool of people who could do this is prohibitively large," Doug Madory, the director of internet analysis at Dyn Research and the analyst who first spotted the outage, told Business Insider when asked to speculate as to who could be responsible.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: internet; northkorea
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To: SeekAndFind
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12/23/2014 3:52:53 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: SeekAndFind
It's Alarmingly Easy To Take North Korea's Internet OfflineI love that app!
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posted on
12/23/2014 3:54:14 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: SeekAndFind
Rattle rattle rattle that cage. Eventually all these juvenile pranks are going to lead to catastrophe. Then who will be laughing?
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posted on
12/23/2014 3:56:52 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
12/23/2014 3:58:29 PM PST
by
Ray76
(Who gave the stand down order in Ferguson? Who gave the stand down order in Benghazi?)
To: SeekAndFind
Are they still on dial-up?
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posted on
12/23/2014 3:58:58 PM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: SeekAndFind; Joe Brower; CodeToad
Mike Leyton's actual password was sonyml3.
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:01:44 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:03:27 PM PST
by
moovova
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
"Rattle rattle rattle that cage. Eventually all these juvenile pranks are going to lead to catastrophe. Then who will be laughing?"
We may never know what hit us, if we wake up and the power is out. And stays out.
Click the pic to the full-text Free Republic thread.
Alas, Brave New Babylon 60-second Youtube trailer
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:03:33 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:12:18 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: SeekAndFind
Oh, sure, you can knock out the *hahahahaha* civilian internet in North Korea, but since the hackers can easily relocate to China (as they have in the past) or any number of other nations (which they have in the past) or use satellite communications (which they have in the past), it does not ‘solve’ the issue of them attacking targets.
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:16:18 PM PST
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: SeekAndFind
North Korea has a very secure backup system that would be almost impossible to hack.
The entire North Korean Internet is backed up on a half dozen 5.25 inch floppy disks that Kim Jong Un keeps in a cigar box in his underwear drawer.
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:18:49 PM PST
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Continues)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
The Norks SOLE Submarine?
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:24:59 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:25:36 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: moovova
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:26:56 PM PST
by
SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: SeekAndFind
I no can roggin.
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:29:43 PM PST
by
McGruff
(Ummm...)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:29:54 PM PST
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Vendome
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:30:26 PM PST
by
SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: McGruff
I see the problem, the Pringles can fell off the antenna.
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12/23/2014 4:31:35 PM PST
by
wrench
To: SeekAndFind
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12/23/2014 4:33:17 PM PST
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dfwgator
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