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Re:I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet f... by teekert on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:59AM (#40725595)
I can imagine he did piss of some agencies? I mean other states could have mapped NK's whole infra, made a plan to take down NK's internet when "needed" (i.e. in case of some event)... Then some dude triggers it just for fun...

Some things are too big to just mess around with, I would feel extremely vulnerable having pulled such a stunt.

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Re:I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet f... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:10AM (#40725657)
> can imagine he did piss of some agencies

Sure. But OP asked why he isn’t being arrested. Plenty of people piss off the IC when they publish e.g. long-coveted (and independently discovered) zero days, or write an exposé on something an agency was hoarding for interagency political value.

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Re:I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet f... by spiritbear14 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:11AM (#40725666)
or easily spy on ALL internet traffic, which they probably do anyway
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