North Korean internet goes dark (yes, they had one)

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Any of you guys want to fess up? :slight_smile:

http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/north-koreas-internet-goes-dark-376097859903

(Yes, I know, they're saying it's a DDoS, not a routing hack...)

2

But I can ping them.

https://nknetobserver.github.io/

And what would it matter if its offline, they already block their
population. What exactly is offline?

3

But I can ping them.

https://nknetobserver.github.io/

And what would it matter if its offline, they already block their
population. What exactly is offline?

The Kim of the moment, the elite, a few journalists, and the like. And,
assuming they actually did the exploit in country and didn't outsource it
to the Chaos Computer Club (or whomever), their crack team of Sony takedown
hackers.

There is a separate, inside DPRK only, network for the hoi polloi.

Regards
Marshall

4

The DPRK Internet is apparently back.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30584093

I suspect its absence was much more interesting that its presence will be.

I am reminded that the Chaos Computer Club has done a lot of good work for
electronic freedom. I was remembering events (perhaps unfairly) from
decades ago, did not mean to cast any aspersions on their current
activities, and am sorry if that offended anyone.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks

5

I was hoping that everyone just put 175.45.176.0/22 in their bogon list.

6

Why you suggest it?

7

What would be the point in blocking them? They don't even have electricity
in the country, what would I worry about coming out of their IP block that
wouldn't be more interesting than dangerous. Pretty obvious if it was
really them behind the Sony hack, it was outsourced.

http://www.standupamericaus.org/sua/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/North-Korea-at-night.jpg

8

For the few elite that do have Internet in DPRK it would be 1) a big inconvenience which would annoy them a lot and 2) they have to transmit what they want attacked to the outsourced crew (whoever they might be) somehow. I doubt the outsourced group has a fax#.

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I was hoping that everyone just put 175.45.176.0/22 in their bogon list.

why? is it something despicable such as the dee cee propaganda engine?

randy

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I was hoping that everyone just put 175.45.176.0/22 in their bogon list.

why? is it something despicable such as the dee cee propaganda engine?

Because poorly targeted prefix filtering works so well for spam and
ddos... except that it doesn't.

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You have listened Fox news for too long, being convinced that US are the good, and any others are evil. Dont you?

12

I seem to recall that they also had some space on a Japanese
network. I can't hit the Naenara website, which is the DPRK
intranet-- that might be what they're talking about.

-Sam

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What would be the point in blocking them? They don't even have
electricity in the country, what would I worry about coming out
of their IP block that wouldn't be more interesting than dangerous.
Pretty obvious if it was really them behind the Sony hack, it
was outsourced.

For the few elite that do have Internet in DPRK it would be 1) a big
inconvenience which would annoy them a lot and 2) they have to transmit
what they want attacked to the outsourced crew (whoever they might be)
somehow. I doubt the outsourced group has a fax#.

I am pretty sure that they have fax machines in Washington Dee Cee.

14

Looks like it is still going on.

you can make this stuff up:

""Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical
forest,""

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/north-korea-suffers-another-internet-outage-hurls-racial-slur-at-pres-obama/

15

CCC would not do anything pro-NK.