In the past several days, it appears that at least 35 US- and South Korea-based websites were under attack by a botnet group of computers, causing the attacked domains to become very slow and unresponsive and even putting many out of commission for periods of time. Among the domains were many government websites of their respective countries. It's unconfirmed as to where exactly the attack is being launched from, but South Korean officials believe it to be North Koran forces or those sympathetic to their cause.
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2009-05-13
I believe that the next big "terrorist attack" will be staged to appear as coming from the Internet, thus giving the go to censorship and monitoring of the net, as well as more "war on terror".
Anyone that connects vital services to the Internet is doing an error today, that someday we will all pay for.
For less important websites a few hours of ddos is not such a big deal, and I don't think a nation would attack another nation in that way.
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2009-06-09
If it this was really perpetuated by North Korea, then there is no need to be shocked.
http://www.kcckp.net/kcc_e/index.htm (Official North Korean computer science corporation)
North Korea has a pool of professional hackers and they can perpetuate an internet-based attack or espionage very secretively with relative success.
But here's the interesting part: North Korean programmers have made a computer game AI, Korean-Japanese-English translation software, voice recognition software, medical task software, etc.
For someone who knows quite well about this, North Korea is not in a shape to conduct a full-fledge war in real life.
Edited 2009-07-08 21:34 UTC
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Wow, the People's Republic of Korea never ceases to amaze me.
It turns out they are selling their OCR software commercially in Japan with all the bombs flying over our heads.
You gotta love US Embargos.
At least they could be good Communists and release the source code under the ISC license.
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North Korea is not Communist, but Socialist with Korean characteristics (AKA Juche ideology). It's very sad that people don't know very much about North Korea, especially Westerners.
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you should try being Canadian, nobody knows anything about us, and we're freaking right next to the US. It has been shown many, many times the prevailing US view of us is that we all live in igloos, say "eh" after every sentence, that it snows year round here, our capital city is Toronto (it's not) and we all love hockey (we do).
There isn't many people who really take the time to learn about anybody other than their own group/country/whatever.
It's kind of a shame.
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I was led to believe there more curling sheets than ice* hockey rinks. And that's a good thing, because curling is frakking awesome.
*Hockey without the "ice" qualifier is something different - something we Dutch are pretty good at
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_hockey
Edited 2009-07-09 13:19 UTC
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Curling is big in Canada, but there is definitely more hockey rinks then curling rinks, at least over the entire country (we're large enough that it probably varies by province.)
Lacross is pretty big here too (It's actually our national sport, not hockey, who knew)
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Note that what's known as Communism nowadays in the World that has continued to evolve since the 1950s is not the original "Communism" but "Marxism-Leninism" and its derivatives. Juche falls by that definition into Communism because it is, according to messiah Kim Il Sung himself, a derivative of Marxism-Leninism. Other than that, it is rather unoriginal and further developments by Kim Jong Il have many parallelisms with Stalinism, another Communism variant.
What the parties and Nations choose to call themselves has little relevance, as the Chinese Communist Party can hardly be defined as Communist by any standard(more like 1900s European Capitalism) and the "Socialist" Parties in Europe and the developed world in general are, at their best, Socially Liberal Conservatives.
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Ok, can somebody explain this to me: the official North Korean news agency doesn't even have it's website based at home but rather in Japan (http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm). It is, like the whole country, a bit outdated ... yet North Koreans are supposedly behind such an attack. Sound like a lot of b.s. to me.
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