It's Alarmingly Easy To Take North Korea's Internet Offline

Business Insider ^ | 12/23/2014 | Armin Rosen

[Brother Cracker]

[Vendome]

Cut R,G,B in that order...

Mission accomplished. ..

[MeshugeMikey]

kim took the time off the internet to visit one of North Korea's Two Functional Factories,,

[CodeToad]

People would freak to find our Internet is easy to take offline. Most of the backbone is carried by only a few carriers. Think of taking out even ISPs like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Dish, DirectTV, Charter, and a handful of others and that is 95% of the country.

[sagar]

“Kim Jong Un keeps in a cigar box in his underwear drawer”

His underwear drawer can hold all hard drives ever manufactured.

[ansel12]

Did you get picked on a lot as a kid? You seem to live in constant fear of upsetting evil leaders.

[Brother Cracker]

[Secret Agent Man]

i think there’s a light switch that controls the server’s circuit in the basement.

[PLMerite]

Arnold is not impressed.

[logi_cal869]

I never believed it was NK for a minute. Couldn’t believe it when our government started pointing fingers.
Now this.

I fully expect Susan ‘talkshow’ Rice & John ‘effin’ Kerry to be announcing unilateral ‘normalizing’ of relations with North Korea on Christmas Day...

(I wish that were /s)

[dfwgator]

Yep, it’s a sad day when I believe North Korea over the US government.

[Brother Cracker]

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

No. But I’ll bet you’ve been bullying since your playground days.

[ansel12]

No, I’m the sheepdog type, not afraid of bullies, and stronger than them.

I’m more a Reagan type, I think submitting to bullies only makes them more likely to do grown into a greater threat.

[PLMerite]

Archie isn't impressed with Kim either.

"Kim? He's a meathead."

[GOPJ]

I heard it was a bunch of 6th graders at a school in Tampa ...

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

There is a difference between submitting to bullies and antagonizing them unnecessarily.

It is unwise to stick your hand in a rattlesnake hole.

I think pride (the bad kind not the good kind) should take a backseat to commonsense and diplomacy. Some of these battles are like a poison pawn in chess — hard for human nature to resist but often deadly.

Pride that is patriotism excepted.

[W.]

Sum Ting Gon

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I should add that I think you can err in either direction. That’s where careful assessment, cool heads, and WISDOM are vital.

There is a time for everything.

On your side, I think we should take every means possible and wipe those freaking serial killer psycho ISIS criminals off the face of the planet. Yes, there is a time for that response.

[Brother Cracker]