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S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers

maggeth writes "The Financial Times is reporting that North Korea's military and intel services have trained as many as 600 computer hackers specifically for attacks against South Korea, Japan, and the US. South Korea claims that the north has a five-year university program for hacker training and cites recent attacks on government computer systems. The South Korean defense ministry claimed in the report that 'North Korea's intelligence warfare capability is estimated to have reached the level of advanced countries,' and that the caliber of the North's hackers is high. So far it appears that these specific attacks are based in China, although it is not clear if North Korea is using Chinese networks or if China is involved."

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  1. Re:Interesting... by bersl2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The normal people are so food-deprived, there are claims of cannibalism in the North. Screw satellite pictures: technology is the least of North Korea's people's problems.

  2. here's a thought: by torpor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe WESTERN MEDIA is using this as a FUD tool?

    Ever thought of that, eh? Have you? HAVE YOU?!!

    Its handy, all this enemy-making placement in modern media publications. Makes people really seethingly detest each other, and we know how much cash that equals...

    Hey, here's a thought. Y'know when the commie pinko scum call us honorable Westies "Running Dogs"?

    Well .. THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT! Yip, yip, yip!!

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  3. Whaaa? by Greyfox · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What the hell did they train them on? No one's been allowed to sell North Korea anything for as long as I can remember! The most advanced technology they must have in the country would probably be the Apple //! Ooo! Ph33r North Korea or they'll... copy your shit with Copy 2 Plus!

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  4. Re:If true, the stakes are now higher. by the_mad_poster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, thank you Captain Obvious. I can't understand why the CIA doesn't just break down your door right now and drag you off to their secret training facilities, given your amazing abilities. I can't believe somebody actually found that Interesting. I think maybe they were looking for the "-1, Well Duh" moderation and clicked it by mistake.

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  5. Re:If true, the stakes are now higher. by the_mad_poster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's because your brain is roughly the size of a withered peanut.

    You should probably consider running for president.

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  6. & Americans are the most evil then by DABANSHEE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Afterall the US is one of the top countries in regards possesing WMD & has the worst recordd in the world in regards the deliberate targeting of civilians with it's WMD.

    Remember virtually all the people Iraq targeted with WMD in the Iran-Iraq war were soldiers, while it's use of gas in the Kurdish insurgency only caused 4 figure fatalities - less than 10,000, which is less than the number of Iraqi dead in Shrub's War, while the ratio of civilian dead relative to belligerent dead is not significantly different. Now compare that to the hundreds of thousands of casualties at Hiroshima & Nagasaki, more than 95% of which were innocent civilians.

    Now if we are going to claim Saddam was evil because he waged aggressive war, used WMD & repressed minorities, then the only conclusion we can make is that the US is even more evil.

    Afterall the US has waged many more wars than Baathist Iraq ever did (over 200 wars in the 220 odd years since the American revolution) & has been involved in many more agressive wars.

    The US has also killed many more people with WMD too, & a much higher proportion of civilians to combatents too.

    While the US has repressed minorities more than Baathist Iraq ever did. Just look at the genocide or virtual genocide of the 500 North American Indian nations. Now compare that to Baathist Iraq, where Shias & Kurds still form the majority in most of the regions where they formed majorities before the Baathists came to power.