I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA

Re:I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet f... by operator2140 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:58AM (#40725947)

Talk about delusions of grandeur. He knocked a few public facing HTTP hosts offline, amazing! I can “a bring down North Korea’s internet” aka a few public hosts for a week too if I rent Lizard Squads stresser for $400 a week. What’s supposed to be impressive about that?

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Re:I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet f... by resolutebat on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @04:11AM (#40726018)

No, he knocked out the two routers serving the entire country. NK sites were inaccessible to the outside world, and outside sites were inaccessible to NK.

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Re:I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet f... by wkat4242 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @09:46PM (#40734109)

But very very few North Koreans even have access to the internet. Regular people just have access to a local intranet with censored information.

That exercise that Russia did a few years ago to see if they could function cut off from the internet? For north Korea that's the regular self-imposed status quo. I don't think it will have had much impact on daily life there.

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Re:I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet f... by 4fterd4rk on Thursday June 20, 2024 @11:40AM (#40739970)

But it would have had a big impact on the lives of the elites in the country, which are the people you want to hurt to put pressure on the regime.

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