A misconfigured North Korean Internet cloud server has provided a fascinating glance into the world of North Korean animation outsourcing and how foreign companies might be inadvertently employing North Korean companies on information technology (IT) projects. The incident also underlines how difficult it is for foreign companies to verify their outsourced work is not potentially breaking sanctions and ending up on computers in Pyongyang.
↫ Martyn Williams at 38 North
What an absolutely wild story.
> The incident also underlines how difficult it is for foreign companies to verify their outsourced work is not potentially breaking sanctions and ending up on computers in Pyongyang.
In my book, that’s a win. Let me explain: Coca Cola and Hollywood movies, not weapons won the Cold War.
Regimes will not be overthrown from outside but from the inside only. For this to happen people need to ask questions and questions are only asked when there is an horizon. Those pieces of freedom culture on North-Korean computers will leave impressions, trust me.
I forgot to add blue jeans and rock’n roll …
Chernobyl decided the cold war. Or paused it, judging russian aggressive behavior nowadays.
Pretty sure N. Korea considers themselves to have learned from that collapse, and absolutely won’t allow western or even S. Korean influences like K dramas in. (What is the punishment for being caught with K dramas in N Korea again?) These animators are almost certainly banned from mentioning their work in public.