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North Korea Introduces 'Secure' E-mail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-this-is-just-strange dept.

An anonymous reader sent in a strange little story running over at ZD that discusses North Korea's new secure email system. There's a lot of strange bits in there about trained North Korean hackers, and the fact that North Korea's news agency is hosted in Japan.

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  1. DictatorMail.com ? by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How the system (likely) works:

    The government assigns you a password.

    You send email, people send you email.

    You sleep well knowing that your email can only be read by the sender, recipient and.. that.. man.. with the rubber hose.

    To me it sounds like Kim Jong Il is getting even more paranoid. He's wanting to control (and snoop) all email in within his borders for fear of net-savvy citizens daring to send subversive email. Pretty soon he'll probably start shooting people with glasses ("intellectuals") as Pol Pot did in Cambodia.

    Hint to Kim Jong Il, try feeding your millions of starving children before promising them a corrupt email system few of them will ever live to see.

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    1. Re:DictatorMail.com ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is a regime that forces its athletes to shut curtains on their buses when traveling in foreign countries because they might have to bear the sight of all the unspeakable horrors in capitalist countries if those windows were open. Horrors like traffic, I guess.

      At any rate, the last thing the North Korean government wants is an online citizenry.

      This latest press release by the Japanese North Korean contingent is just more floundering of a sadly dying nation.

  2. Fighting oppression by mcSey921 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the article: "It remains illegal for any South Koreans to email their northern neighbors without government permission. "

    So South Korea is fighting the oppression and censorship of the North with oppression and censorship?