The North Korean internet has been badly disrupted by the activities of a lone American hacker who has paralysed government-run websites and choked off email traffic in revenge for an earlier cyberattack directed against him by the Communist state.
The independent hacker, identified only as P4x, has according to reports repeatedly launched what are called “distributed denial of service” attacks, which shut down internet activity with a flood of traffic which overwhelm a system’s capacity to process it.
If one chap can do it from his house it sounds as if North Korea isn't much of a threat after all. Almost leads me to wonder if those images of North Korean missile launches even came from North Korea. They probably did I suppose, but it all sounds pretty ramshackle.
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Thunderbirds (Are Go) did some really realistic rocket launches.
I wonder why North Korea attacked a private American citizen in the first place. Whatever the reason, there's something quite satisfying about this. I'm sure some Americans are pleased that a society based on capitalism and freedom (in this case, the freedom to be an obsessive geek) can produce individuals capable of humbling a totalitarian regime.
Doonhamer - good point, I bet those North Korean rockets are only 18 inches long.
Sam - I assume the North Koreans thought he was an arm of the US government. Maybe he has a fairly sophisticated set-up which they thought couldn't possibly be owned by a private citizen.
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