Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea
by misja111 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:52AM
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It's good to have some skepticism, but I wouldn't underestimate North Korea's technical capabilities. After all they have been able to build an atom bomb, that's an accomplishment that is far more complicated than writing a computer worm.
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Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea
by dingaling on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:54AM
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Creating a nuclear explosive is more of a routine engineering challenge, rather than intellectual. Any nation with (1) 1950s-level engineering capability and (2) money or will can do it.
To badly paraphrase a Manhattan Project scientist, from memory: "there are lots of ways to create a nuclear explosion and no matter which one we try they all seem to work"
Miniaturised nukes are much, much more complicated and seem to require 1990s+ levels of physics, computer modelling and engineering.
Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea
by nv-vn on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:46PM
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It's not that they wouldn't be able to. It's that proving it was them is damn near impossible. The claim that it's DEFINITELY THEM is just so hard to put any real substance behind that it just appears to be fictitious. The amount of proof that you could find in a single binary is very limited, and even that stuff could be faked on purpose. To say that it must, 100%, without a doubt, be of North Korean origin is about as foolproof as any other conspiracy theory.