How good are Kim Jong-un's elite hackers?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32925503

by SimplyUseless • 11 years ago

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baldfat• 11 years ago

For security questions my normal reply is it doesn't take much to cause serious disruptions. A pre-teen with the right scripts and a little information can cause great harm. A person given a little training and a little guidance can do more harm and the more they learn the more harm they can cause and the less you will be aware of their actions.

escherize• 11 years ago

Even the title of this piece seems like propaganda and fear mongering. As humans we tend to over-react to outrageous scenarios, even if the chance of it happening is very rare. Car crashes are routine and mundane, and you're much more likely to be affected by that than North Korean bad-guy-hackers.

Building outside foes is an excellent way for the state to justify an increase in power.

pekk• 11 years ago

It is interesting to know about the distribution of military capabilities. It shouldn't be news that North Korea has a large military.

scarmig• 11 years ago

You'd be surprised, though, by how few people realize NK has a formidable military. Every time in the last decade NK commits some insanity, over the water cooler people are more than happy to say, "[Bush|Obama] is being wimpy, he should just invade NK and be done with it." I mean, I know it's just talk, but if they had even the most cursory understanding of the military situation in the region, they wouldn't say that.

zamalek• 11 years ago

Any information at all about the region is interesting.

Also, to answer the question posed in the title: certainly not as good as Kim Jong-un himself.

mathattack• 11 years ago

It helps certain agendas to have a boogeyman out there!

xname• 11 years ago

What a silly argument to compare with car crashes. How many were killed in 9/11? So it's not a concern if 9/11 happens once every year?

sqeaky• 11 years ago

Something on the order of 30,000 to 40,000 Americans die in car crashes every year. Depending how you count (lung issues etc... ) 3000 to 10000 people died in 9/11.

I think Escherize's point was how silly it is we don't worry about car crashes which are a real and countable, and yet we worry about third world script kiddies which likely have none of the effectiveness of the 9/11 hijackers.

Terrorism in a typical year in the United States kills fewer people than bathing, smoking while sleeping or basketball. We should do what it takes to maintain a comparable level of safety to this and not get caught up in useless scaremongering.

brador• 11 years ago

It'll just be a routing proxy that goes through NKs IP. Chances are one of their regular computers was hacked because it runs XP, their network mapped and malware and bots added everywhere. Now the hackers are using that to hide their true location.

hoare• 11 years ago

I miss the times where the term "hacker" was used differently

How good are Kim Jong-un's elite hackers?

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