Don't step on Superman's cape

[greglepore]

Originally Posted by flipper35

I think the same group did both Sony and North Korea.

So do I . Very worrisome, as some idiots could trigger a global confrontation.

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by island911

ah . . no.

North Korea can't even keep the lights on with regularity. Their Internet going down is less of a big deal than those in this country who forget to change their smoke alarm batteries.

I found out how they lost connection to the world wide web:

[sammyg2]

At least we didn't BOW to them.

[afterburn 549]

I am sure Hilgar, potus, holder were running around looking for the RESET button ...LOL

[Chocaholic]

I think NK did it themselves out of some idea that a counter-cyber attack was coming. Shutting down would insulate them. I truly doubt our leadership did anything at all. We already drew the line in the sand...that's normally as far as it goes.

[Geronimo '74]

I read somewhere that NK only has a few thousand IP addresses for a population of about 24 million...
I guess the impact was minimal.

[widgeon13]

Actually, it's just about a thousand. Saw that yesterday.

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

I read somewhere that NK only has a few thousand IP addresses for a population of about 24 million...
I guess the impact was minimal.

NAT an RFC1918 class A behind each of those, and now you've got something...

[flipper35]

It wouldn't be hard to do a DDoS attack on such a tightly controlled gateway for that country.

[gt350mike]

It's definitely not our administration's style to retaliate unless they've procrastinated several weeks. If they did, it's the equivalent
to a pillow fight. If the administration really wants to get Tubby's attention, I have a few ideas.....

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Z-man

Taking away their internets is a means of retaliation? Really? So...

2. How many of the populace were actually affected by this? 5%?

3. This retaliation amounts to no more than throwing sand in someone's face in a sandbox.

^^^This...

Shutting down their internet is about as serious to them as if our enemy shut down all the Red Lobsters in America.

[LWJ]

Small update. Look at Google today. They are streaming "The Interview" for free. I just may watch this.

Larry

[Chocaholic]

It's not free, but very cool that they rolled it out this way.

[Steve Carlton]

Can we make it so that's all they can see online in N Korea?

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Can we make it so that's all they can see online in N Korea?

Or maybe get into the supreme leader's private porn stash...

I think someone did something to NK's system to say "you don't want to go there"