North Korea without internet? What a shame.

2014-12-22T22:36:45-05:00

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/22/north-korea-is-suffering-a-complete-internet-outage/?ncid=rss_truncated

North Korea is suffering a complete internet outage (update: restored)

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (that's "North Korea" to the common man) has just four networks that connect to the World Wide Web -- and none of them...

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 22 at 2014 10:38 PM

2014-12-22T22:38:38-05:00

OH please...it's not like the Hermit Kingdom had much of a cyber footprint to start with. I'm betting it's all their exterior connections to the real world.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 22 at 2014 10:38 PM

2014-12-22T22:38:56-05:00

I can't believe that our Administration have some fight left and showing some teeth to North Korea if this is the case more power to them

Response by Capt Brandon Charters made Dec 22 at 2014 10:42 PM

2014-12-22T22:42:29-05:00

I have a feeling that losing internet in NK is as much of an economic shift as us having cspan removed from our cable packages.

Response by TSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 22 at 2014 11:31 PM

2014-12-22T23:31:48-05:00

I don't think 12 gameboys wired together count as an internet.

Not really surprised. There are countries and private groups that enjoy sowing trouble. I suspect that NK is getting some of it back.

Response by SSG (ret) William Martin made Dec 22 at 2014 11:55 PM

2014-12-22T23:55:30-05:00

I seriously doubt many NK citizens felt the pain of not having the internet since many of them do not have internet in the first place. I think NK just wants to appear weak to a strong opponent. Its a tactic coined by Sun Tzu but 4 internet portals?

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 22 at 2014 11:58 PM

2014-12-22T23:58:48-05:00

The only person this affects is the dictator himself and maybe a handful of people. It would be interesting if is actually involved with this since they are North Korea's only "ally."

North Korea is once again throwing a temper tantrum and looking a fool.

Response by SFC Michael Jackson, MBA made Dec 23 at 2014 12:31 AM

2014-12-23T00:31:19-05:00

The President vowed the US will respond to the Sony attack. Humm, a couple days later, North Korea is without Internet. We Responded, and North Korea getting a taste of our own cyber capabilities. Don't test the might of America!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/world/fbi-accuses-north-korean-government-in-cyberattack-on-sony-pictures.html?_r=0

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Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 23 at 2014 1:18 AM

2014-12-23T01:18:44-05:00

Response by 1SG Michael Blount made Dec 23 at 2014 4:58 AM

2014-12-23T04:58:42-05:00

Oh no! Somebody -- call Sony

Response by CMSgt James Nolan made Dec 23 at 2014 7:38 AM

2014-12-23T07:38:31-05:00

"Shall we play a game?"

Response by 1SG Michael Blount made Dec 23 at 2014 8:07 AM

2014-12-23T08:07:36-05:00

It's not hard to do if the strongest computer the country's got is a Commodore-64.

Response by Maj Walter Kilar made Dec 23 at 2014 12:16 PM

2014-12-23T12:16:48-05:00

I do not think North Korea hacked Sony, and I do not think the U.S. hacked North Korea. This is an interesting "war" to watch.

Response by LTC Martin Metz made Dec 23 at 2014 12:42 PM

2014-12-23T12:42:34-05:00

There are only about 1,000 Internet addresses in the country. By comparison, Afghanistan has about 100 times the number of Internet hookups. Almost anyone, from a competent hacker in his mom's basement to the NSA, could have derailed North Korea's minuscule Internet connections. In other words, temporarily taking out the Hermit Kingdom's access to YouTube for 10 hours or so is a weekend project -- not exactly the proportional response you would expect from a country like the United States against our most recent serious act of cyberwarfare / terrorism. Thanks to whomever tried to bring this home to North Korea. Now, when is our own government going to get going?
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/23/us-northkorea-cyberattack-outage-idINKBN0K10HN20141223

Downing North Korea's Internet not much of a scalp

If someone did just knock North Korea off the Internet for half a day, it wouldn't have taken much.

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Dec 23 at 2014 12:48 PM

2014-12-23T12:48:18-05:00

The one internet site allowed that worked for all the public isn't loading? Pity. Where are they going to get their http://www.gloriousleaderordeath.org?

Response by Lt Col Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 24 at 2014 9:41 AM

2014-12-24T09:41:32-05:00

So...both people with internet access are having a boring day?

Response by Lt Col Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 24 at 2014 9:42 AM

2014-12-24T09:42:51-05:00

My guess? Some teenagers from Japan, angry at North Korea hacking Sony.

Response by COL Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 19 at 2015 1:01 PM

2015-01-19T13:01:46-05:00

http://time.com/3673552/nsa-north-korea-sony-hack/

I guess we could call this having insider information?

U.S. Cracked North Korea's Computer Systems

It reportedly happened before the devastating Sony hack