Vigilante hacker attacks foreign nation internet infrastructure on behalf of the U.S. without the U.S.'s consent and wants to encourage the U.S. to perform more similar cyber attacks, but witout the approval of the chain of command, without thinking of the repercussions on international relations.
I don’t know, but this doesn’t sond likea good idea.
I don’t see the point in attacking North Korea when Lazarus et al are well known to do their digital wetwork via diaspora, so DDoS’ing a nation is effectively carpet bombing citizenry for government actions when you should be taking a scapular approach to threat actor countermeasures.
Seems like this person has anger blinders permanently affixed to their head and is only concerned with vamping up their own “hacker cred” to put weight behind selling their basic ass web vulnerability scanner.
Hard pass on both qomplex and punkspider.
Yeah good point on the anger glasses. He sounds like an agressive type of dude. Says he worked for Blackwater? The mercenaries company known for their crimes against humanity in Iraq, if I’m not mistaken? What normal person would want to work there?
DDoS’ing a nation is effectively carpet bombing citizenry for government actions when you should be taking a scapular approach to threat actor countermeasures.
my understanding is that the only NK citizens that have access to the actual internet is microscopic and concentrated in information warfare / scams.
Are you laboring under the false impression that the average citizens of North Korea have, forget regular, but ANY access to the internet? Carpet bombing doesn’t work if you’re already a ghost.
…therefore you would be fine with this same action if it’s not NK?
The person in this article wants this same baseline cyber response to any countries attacking.
Look down the road where this decision takes everyone.
I generally agree with you but isn’t the n Korean internet only used by the government and whatever rich people can afford it? I say fuck em.
I’ve heard the same and I generally view that as propaganda since NK have been actively maintaining a Linux distro since 98 (Red Star OS) so it’s not like they’re total luddites, just under oppressive dictatorial control.
I personally can’t condone attacking random people based on geoloc for the actions of their dictator but I absolutely understand your point of view.
Yes.
Internet access is available in North Korea, but is only permitted with special authorization. It is primarily used for government purposes, and also by foreigners … Online services for most individuals and institutions are provided through a free domestic-only network known as Kwangmyong, with access to the global Internet limited to a much smaller group.
Wikipedia
It sounds like a Hollywood movie. “Hacker tattoos”? Single person took on an entire country? I dunno, something about this is off, like it’s too juicy of a story for Wired to scrutinize it properly and there’s really more (or less) to the story.