Posted on 12/22/2014 4:10:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
North Korea’s already tenuous links to the Internet went completely dark on Monday after days of instability, in what Internet monitors described as one of the worst North Korean network failures in years.
The loss of service came just days after President Obama pledged that the United States would launch a “proportional response” to the recent attacks on Sony Pictures, which government officials have linked to North Korea. While an attack on North Korea’s networks was suspected, there was no definitive evidence of it.
Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, an Internet performance management company, said that North Korean Internet access first became unstable late Friday. The situation worsened over the weekend, and by Monday, North Korea’s Internet was completely offline....
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Good heavens - a froppy!
Save your old copies of the Encylopedia Americana, because Wikipedia may not last forever.
Obama says it was the Norks that attacked Sony.
Reason enough to believe it was someone or something else.
So maybe China is responsible and 0bama wants to take credit?
I think I got an old set of MS-DOS 6.22 disks I can loan ya.....
I wonder if we can decompile an object deck...
This begins Cyber War One. I wonder if it will be a small event with lessons for the near future (Russ-Japananese War, 1904-05) or the first inning of something much bigger?
Imagine the diplomacy going on right now, between Kerry at State, Obama/Jarrett in the White House, calling Moscow and Beijing. Probably trying to preemptively surrender.
The Norks internet access is dial-up, and the fourteen working rotary phones they have in the country took a dive.
5.25”?
I know our government had nothing to do with it.
Striking back is not Obama’s style. He prefers the Apologize and Capitulate Strategy.
They should un-plug the router and wait 60 seconds then plug it back in.
You guys got this all wrong. The North Koreans disconnected themselves from the internet to punish us.
Maybe it was Arec Bawin
Nope. Haven’t had them since I had an old XT clone.
I agree. I hope it doesn’t happen in winter.
NK is easy...go after Russia and China...and see what happens...
concur with this thought...and highly plausible and possible...
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