• North Korea acquires money through gold farming
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[quote]SEOUL, South Korea — The North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has found a novel way of raising badly needed cash, according to the South Korean authorities: unleashing young hackers on South Korea’s immensely popular online gaming sites to find ways to rack up points convertible to cash. Despite its decrepit economy, North Korea is believed to train an army of computer programmers and hackers. The police in Seoul said Thursday that four South Koreans and a Korean-Chinese had been arrested on charges of drawing on that army to organize a hacking squad of 30 young video gaming experts. Working from Northern China, the police said, the squad created software that breached the servers for such popular South Korean online gaming sites as “Lineage” and “Dungeon and Fighter.” The breach allowed round-the-clock play by “factories” of dozens of unmanned computers. Their accumulated gaming points were exchanged for cash at Web sites where human players are focused on acquiring enhancements for their online personas, or avatars. The gaming software was also sold, the police said; such factories, while illegal, are common in South Korea and China.[/quote] [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/world/asia/05korea.html?_r=3[/url]
[quote]Despite its decrepit economy, North Korea is believed to train an army of computer programmers and hackers. The police in Seoul said Thursday that four South Koreans and a Korean-Chinese had been arrested on charges of drawing on that army to organize a hacking squad of 30 young video gaming experts.[/quote] lol, wut. And where do video games come into this?
[IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TNnGMM781NQ/SfC-oYEyxcI/AAAAAAAAAU8/1-NZ-Bns1to/s320/cash%25204%2520gold.gif[/IMG] First thing that came to mind
Computer slaves.
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;31585623]lol, wut. And where do video games come into this?[/QUOTE] Working from Northern China, the police said, the squad created software that breached the servers for such popular South Korean online gaming sites as “Lineage” and “Dungeon and Fighter.” The breach allowed round-the-clock play by “factories” of dozens of unmanned computers. And then the sell the ingame currency for gold
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;31585623]lol, wut. And where do video games come into this?[/QUOTE] [quote]Working from Northern China, the police said, the squad created software that breached the servers for such popular South Korean online gaming sites as “Lineage” and “Dungeon and Fighter.” The breach allowed round-the-clock play by “factories” of dozens of unmanned computers. Their accumulated gaming points were exchanged for cash at Web sites where human players are focused on acquiring enhancements for their online personas, or avatars. The gaming software was also sold, the police said; such factories, while illegal, are common in South Korea and China.[/quote]
never change nk. never change.
[QUOTE]hacking squad of 30 young video gaming experts.[/QUOTE] :v:
Please invest into North Korean Eve Online central banking and commerce. 2 months late North Korea is the financial capital of the gaming world.
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;31585623]lol, wut. And where do video games come into this?[/QUOTE]avatar fits
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMqfBlMjU0A[/media]
The raids they do end up happening in giant pantries and the loot is the ability to eat for the day.
Oh, I wonder if they ever bothered with other games, maybe I've terrorized this squad of "experts." I'll tell you, farming gold farmers is easy as shit. Especially in EvE, they'll be dicking around and you just go in with the starter frigate, transfer the loot in their crate to the crate of, say, an impressively powerful ship and await the inevitable swarm of drones to annihilate you. The thing is, if they steal from that other crate they'll be red to the godlike ship and then open for battle. I wonder, though, what happens to these guys if they get their operation fucked up by assholes like me? They're probably beaten with rubber hoses while having to recite praises for Kim Jong-Il or something for all we know.
Okay that's just.. sad and lame and shit.
Expected.
Kim Jong Mentally-il.
I can't wait for when North Korea's more lucrative export is WoW gold.
tl;dr koreans using bots en masse on various mmos and selling gold what's new [editline]8th August 2011[/editline] i love how they say they are hackers or something even though really it's just a bunch of video gamers telling the programmers how to make the bot more efficient
Ol' Jimmy Kong Il should enter some Starcraft tournaments.
as terrible as it is, i have to say that is the coolest thing i've heard of today!
and people think these guys are a serious threat to the world
[QUOTE=scout1;31585646]Working from Northern China, the police said, the squad created software that breached the servers for such popular South Korean online gaming sites as “Lineage” and “Dungeon and Fighter.” The breach allowed round-the-clock play by “factories” of dozens of unmanned computers. And then the sell the ingame currency for gold[/QUOTE] Dungeon and Fighter? Wow guys, original..
[IMG]http://operatorchan.org/n/arch/src/n97259_north-korea-is-best-korea.jpg[/IMG] "[I]Let's go gold for the motherland![/I]"
Really? Gold Farming is big enough to actually fill an entire country's wallet even a noticeable amount?
This will fail.
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