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Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by curiousgal on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:00AM (#43853542)
> "My favorite interview question, because we've interviewed quite a few of these folks, is something to the effect of 'How fat is Kim Jong Un?' They terminate the call instantly, because it's not worth it to say something negative about that,"

They likely terminate the call because you come across as so naive and simplistic that you're unlikely to be in possession of any good IP worth stealing.

Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by Smithalicious on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:30AM (#43853727)
Surely it's not stupidiif it works?
Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by lazide on Friday May 02, 2025 @07:26AM (#43868372)
There is a large contingent of society that will even call you a terrible person if it works. shrug
Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by GuardianCaveman on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:50AM (#43853834)
Nice Try Kim Jong Un
Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by treetalker on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:51AM (#43853838)
Wow, it even works on HN!
Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by voidspark on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:13AM (#43853932)
North Korean spotted
Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by otherme123 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:41AM (#43854059)
Or it can be auto-triggered. I remember a history of a Call of Duty game were a number of players were being annoying, cheating and making the game horrible to play. Someone wrote in the chat "Tiananmen Square massacre" and instantly more than half the players were disconnected.

Or maybe if you keep the convo about KJU being fat, you trigger an alarm that schedule a police visit to your house, in a state were they first act and then ask.

Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by lo_zamoyski on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:05PM (#43860433)
In a communist/totalitarian regime, you don't want to give informants any leverage. The fear of it being recorded and used against you is enough. Also, if the regime were to give permission to speak in this manner, it risks normalizing irreverence toward Kim Jong Un, including employees working in espionage.
Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by 2muchcoffeeman on Thursday May 01, 2025 @02:35AM (#43854346)
https://fortune.com/2025/04/10/north-korean-it-workers-spamm...

You can just generalise the question like these interviewers. I’d criticise Kim Jong Un just to see what was up with this interview question.

Re:The one interview question that will protect you from Nor... by koliber on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:08AM (#43854885)
No. All it took is to call them out for being North Korean and they terminated the call.