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Re:State Dept Guidance on DPRK IT Workers [pdf] by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @06:29PM (#31440992)
It does not take much to run afoul of sanctions on a country that has total embargo status. Even normally legal counsel advice may be prohibited to US persons to provide ( sorry for odd syntax ). In other words, OP does not have to deal with anything beyond normal IT work and still could be restricted on what information he can provide.

Not to search too far, although that is a more exotic example, recently crypto guy got smacked for providing crypto speech ( classified as technical advice ) to DPRK(1).

(1)https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizen-who-conspired-assi...

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Re:State Dept Guidance on DPRK IT Workers [pdf] by drc500free on Thursday May 19, 2022 @10:47PM (#31442792)
Do you have an example where the defendant didn't specifically and purposefully provide guidance on how to use tech to circumvent sanctions? It's not like he was generically talking about crypto.
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Re:State Dept Guidance on DPRK IT Workers [pdf] by newguynewphone on Friday May 20, 2022 @04:33PM (#31452179)
I mean, we would have to see all sides of information, but this is not normal IT work.

On another note, would this case be directly related to the 400 million hack north korea did?

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