North Korea's School For Hackers?

Makoto writes "How do you launch a cyber-war with no IP infrastructure? South Korea claims that North Korea is training about 100 "cybersoldiers" per year in electronic warfighting tools and techniques, including writing viruses and hacking. But according to a story at Wired News, North Korea can barely keep its electrical grid up - not to mention feed its people. Even the Pentagon says North Korea's hacker academy is probably just propaganda by South Korea."

Comments

Hmm...Practice

[uberdave]

Maybe they can't keep the power grid up because the CyberWarrior School uses that as a practice target.

Come and get me Script Kiddies! My IP address is 127.0.0.1

Re:Hmm...Practice

[DeltaSigma]

Hah! I just scanned 127.0.0.1 and all your ports are open, prepare for the system halt of your life!

Re:Hmm...Practice

[cperciva]

Come on, nobody is going to believe that. You should have written this:

Hah! I just scanned 127.0.0.1 and all your ports are open, prepare for the system halt of your li+++ATH NO CARRIER

Spam Training

[kavachameleon]

"Hacker" Training in Korea: how to spoof other ISPs through your country's servers.

I wanna go to hacker academy

[L. VeGas]

I hear the parties are outrageous. And the babez? Out of control!

Re:Or maybe it's true

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a very restricted society though. No Jolt, no Cheetos, probably very limited pr0n resources....people do need motivation and energy afterall. Do the N. Koreans honestly think they can win? Fah..

Re:Or maybe it's true

[invultor]

How about a gun pointed at their head? I'm sure that is motivation enough.