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North Korea Introduces 'Secure' E-mail
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.
North Korea develops a secure e-mail? Those silly North Koreans and their strange thoughts about security... that's just crazy talk. We don't need no stinkin security here in Microsoft land.
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Nice troll.
Why don't you complain about the ever-decreasing liberties in occidental countries ?
At least, in North Korea, people now have the possibility to receive email, which they previously could not (based on the "facts" you just mentioned).
Meanwhile, I am not sure the US is still a Freedom-compliant place.
Could Larry Flint and Frank Zappa still emerge, today ?
Trolling using another account since 2005.
It may very well be that Kim Jonh Il feels that Internet access is critical to his nation's development (as many Americans feel about promoting third-world development in general--teach a man to fish versus simply giving a handout)
Maybe, but food, water & shelter are the 3 necessities. North Korea fails at all three. The North Korean people are starving to death because of this madman. The only way to get food into the country is by engaging in nuclear brinksmanship with the US.
It's eerie that there is now a campaign to recall a pulitzer given to a NY Times journalist who covered up Stalin's starvation of millions years ago. The same thing is occuring today.
I also found it very funny that Jimmy Carter's Nobel was announced at the same time that North Korea's announced its nuclear abilities, in violation of the very agreement that Carter negotiated with North Korea. Nice job, Jimmy.
Ok so let me get this straight.
The email is Secure and "private" eh?
Nothing like providing a false sense of privacy to catch dissidents.
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