North Korean internet goes dark (yes, they had one)

Keith Medcalf kmedcalf at dessus.com
Wed Dec 24 23:26:01 UTC 2014


>> What would be the point in blocking them? They don't even have
>> electricity in the country, what would I worry about coming out 
>> of their IP block that wouldn't be more interesting than dangerous. 
>> Pretty obvious if it was really them behind the Sony hack, it 
>> was outsourced.

>For the few elite that do have Internet in DPRK it would be 1) a big
>inconvenience which would annoy them a lot and 2) they have to transmit
>what they want attacked to the outsourced crew (whoever they might be)
>somehow.  I doubt the outsourced group has a fax#.

I am pretty sure that they have fax machines in Washington Dee Cee.

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