North Koreas internet is experiencing interruptions.
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[QUOTE](CNN) -- North Korea's Internet is experiencing a major disruption and could be the target of an attack, according to a company that monitors Internet performance.
"After 24hrs of increasing instability, North Korean national Internet has been down hard for more than 2hrs," Dyn Research posted on Twitter on Monday.
The reported outage comes amid an escalating war of words between the United States and North Korea over a massive cyberattack on Sony Pictures.
"Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently," said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/world/asia/north-korea-internet/index.html?hpt=hp_t2[/url]
Hit them, and never stop hitting them lads! Death to censorship!
This whole situation is a plot by the united states. NK isn't affiliated with Guardians of Peace
Now is this just bad Korean internet or the US "responding accordingly" like Obama said they would.
Considering the probable strength of North Korea's infrastructure, it might just be Guardians of Peace fucking with both sides, trying to stir as much shit up as they can.
I hope these shenanigans don't escalate into something serious.
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;46772367]Now is this just bad Korean internet or the US "responding accordingly" like Obama said they would.[/QUOTE]
It's like punishing a horrible child by taking away their internet access.
There's so many corporations out there that own more traffic than all of NK combined. There's definitely more than a couple of botnets that could do the same. Frankly, I always found it surprising how rarely entire countries have been taken offline.
Probably just sensationalised news about a regular occurrence.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;46772415]There's so many corporations out there that own more traffic than all of NK combined. There's definitely more than a couple of botnets that could do the same. Frankly, I always found it surprising how rarely entire countries have been taken offline.[/QUOTE]
Because most countries have numerous networks with many different peers and redundant routing. North Korea has just one AS (AS131279) with just one peer (AS4837, through China). So if that link goes down, the entire DPRK's Internet goes down.
Obama's calling on the landline and knocking them off the internet
I can't imagine the amount of people in NK who actually have a PC and internet access is very high.
[QUOTE=Cabbage;46772515]I can't imagine the amount of people in NK who actually have a PC and internet access is very high.[/QUOTE]
It's estimated North Korea has about 1024 IP addresses
[QUOTE=TheTalon;46772531]It's estimated North Korea has about 1024 IP addresses[/QUOTE]
Lol there are daily internet outages in the US larger than that
So did one guy trip over an ethernet cable in North Korea
Can't really imagine what internet would be like in NK.
You just log onto the propaganda box to get your leader's messages streamed straight into you home on demand.
[QUOTE=Perfumly;46772569]Lol there are daily internet outages in the US larger than that[/QUOTE]
LAN parties have more IP addresses than that.
They went over their bandwidth cap and didn't pay the extra charges.
"Oh shit, that's not good! We temporarily can't use the internet!"
Has anyone seen Captain America 2? What if the "gaurdians of peace" are like sheild in that movie
Speaking of North Korea, I just came out of the cinema after watching Dumber and Dumber to and they showed the trailer for The Interview. Wat
I think a better response would have been to fly in a bunch of cheapo netbooks and wireless routers and GIVE more people internet.
imagine a country being DDOSed for months by a worldwide effort
[QUOTE=bitches;46773083]imagine a country being DDOSed for months by a worldwide effort[/QUOTE]
This would potentially cripple the social structure among people in some first-world countries because of how reliant parts of society became on the internet. The most it'd do in North Korea is piss off a small, small fraction and the leaders of the country.
Damn. How else will North Korea track Santa?
[URL="http://nknetobserver.github.io/"]This[/URL] (an analysis of north korean ip space) was just put up the other day.
It was then discussed by [URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2pwqhp/scans_of_north_korean_ip_space/"]/r/netsec[/URL] the next day. Pretty coincidental timing if you ask me.
This would be pretty extreme if it was just a hacker group doing all of this to cause conflict between two countries. I doubt North Korea would do anything because they're all fart and smoke but still it's interesting if they hacked Sony, put the blame on NK, then NK retaliates against accusations, threatens, and then the hackers target NK to poke a bear. A very small, starving bear with a silly haircut, but still a bear.
[QUOTE=mr apple;46774167]This would be pretty extreme if it was just a hacker group doing all of this to cause conflict between two countries. I doubt North Korea would do anything because they're all fart and smoke but still it's interesting if they hacked Sony, put the blame on NK, then NK retaliates against accusations, threatens, and then the hackers target NK to poke a bear. A very small, starving bear with a silly haircut, but still a bear.[/QUOTE]
This sounds strangely like a Call of Duty storyline don't you think
[QUOTE=Da Big Man;46776797]This sounds strangely like a Call of Duty storyline don't you think[/QUOTE]
I haven't played a cod since modern warfare so I dunno bout any bears in cod, wouldnt peta be on that shit like clag glue
Considering the relationship between China and NK, I would not be surprised if the Chinese trained and hosted NK hacking teams during their foreign attacks. I highly doubt NK has the proper infrastructure to maintain a cyber-security organization domestically, and would require outside help (this assuming they really are behind GOP).
[QUOTE=TheTalon;46772531]It's estimated North Korea has about 1024 IP addresses[/QUOTE]
Just in case someone misunderstand the number - these are just "white" ip addresses. Sure it's still a horribly small pool for a country with more or less normal network infrastructure, but for North Korea this seems to be enough, since absolute majority of their population doesn't have access to the internet.
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