North Korea’s Hacker Army

Re:North Korea’s Hacker Army by klibertp on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:01AM (#16331014)

I don't know, on the one hand, NK is objectively behind other nations, but on the other hand, it's still a nation-state, with millions of subjects and complete freedom in shaping their policies. They did manage to build something resembling nuclear weapon without help from outside...

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Re:North Korea’s Hacker Army by realusername on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:13AM (#16331051)

Yes indeed but it took them a very long time to build some and we have a lot of traces of NK trying to get intelligence data about nuclear weapons, on the other hand, I've never seen anything which could indicate that they built a proper hacking army (not just an army of scammers to get more money).

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Re:North Korea’s Hacker Army by lern_too_spel on Thursday February 08, 2018 @05:17AM (#16331265)

> I've never seen anything which could indicate that they built a proper hacking army

Google for Bureau 121 and 91 Office. Just because this article is about a programmer who mostly cracked software doesn't mean that other programmers with other focus areas don't exist.

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Re:North Korea’s Hacker Army by Can_Not on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:08AM (#16359026)

Could thier army not be composed of 1,000 technically inclined cyber-scammers and 10 "proper hackers"?

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Re:North Korea’s Hacker Army by toomanybeersies on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:53AM (#16331197)

They had help from Pakistan at the start of the nuclear program.

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