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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."
South Korea has started training cookies to counter the NK threat.
Crackers? You mean, the guys sit there and undermine US economy by cracking and distributing warez?
Is it more politically correct to call us white-folk "honkies" these days? ;-)
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Karma: Terrible
A: to be able to have a hundred or so crackers attack a web site at your demand or
B: to be able to publish an article linking to them and therefore slashdot their communications into oblivion?
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
North korea may have 600 highly trained crackers, but we have slashdot, and the power of FIFTY THOUSAND CLICKS per link. If that can't bring an entire country down within a few days, nothing will.
They will be SO dissapointed when they discover that the rest of the world has upgraded from Win95, and winnuke.exe does not work anymore.
I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
Just an other one of these horror stories. I mean just look at the stories about NK in the last years.
In NK 100 000s if not millions died in a famine, NK has acquired nuclear weapons and isn't even hiding them but wants the world to know it has them, NK has a army of 1 million men, NK doesn't follow any international treaty or UN resolution, NK kicked out weapons inspectors, NK is supposed to have ties with terrorists, NK constantly threatens its neighbors and now they engage in cyber warfare.
I mean, come on, if any of that was true Bush certainly would have attacked NK and not Iraq, that did not have ties with terrorists, did not posess WMDs and certainly didn't engage in cyber warfare.
So please calm down and trust Bush's judgment.
I'll take this story with a grain of salt :)
I thought all this hacking stuff was learned in a few weekends and evenings using sites like astalavista..?
Jokes aside,... No I have one more.
Judging from the Koreans I've met playing online games, maybe 1 year is spent learning-to-hack; the other 4 are spent learning the social skills needed to relieve passwords by means of human to human attacks.
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If I was called a "cracker" I would be kind of worried about what you just said!
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
One of thier applicants that only *just* made it through:
;liock to join youre 733t gorup oF computer lAmErZ 4nd do 733T thins liek scrpit \/irusez and talk to chiX0rs uin funjny ways!!!! MY MUN SAYS IT IS OK, AND CAN I ALS0 SEUR NETWROK TO DONW7OAD NAUGHTY MOVEIS,, tnx b ill
(mildly edited for 14mn3ss filterz_)
i would
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Original [interesting]:
I would like to join your elite group of computer people and do elite things like script viruses and talk to girls in funny ways. My mum says it is ok, and can I also use your network to download naughty movies.
thanks
bill
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
Most of the students they train probably end up spending most of their time stealing player profiles in MMORPGs.
> DISABLE ECONOMY
> You cannot do that here.
> EXAMINE CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE
> Access Denied.
> HIT ECONOMY WITH STICK
If they start hacking us, we will cut their phone line, this rendering their sole 300-baud modem useless.
I wonder what they teach these hackers in a 5 year course? L33tspeak 101? (or would that be lol?). Maybe they have an advanced economics course in peddling h3rb4l v!4gra and running Nigerian scams too, to bring in money for the Glorious Cause
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Dude...I think we just slashdotted a country.
So I'm jump'n up and down screaming show me the money.
Hey. Finally the use of the word FUD in its true meaning. Didnt expect to live to see the day :)
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
AOL is now being formally recognized by world governments as a modern military superpower. Claiming to have a lineup of over 10,000 highly trained "leet hackers", AOL claims it has enough digital firepower to "out-haxx0r" any country on the planet. Tensions are sure to rise among world leaders as they take action in this suprising turn of events.
:D, ;), ^_^, :P, :X, and o_O.
When reached for comment, George W. Bush was quoted as saying "Well gee them AOL folks rilly seemed nice, what with sendin out em free CDs 'n such, but I guesses, I mean I supposes if they was rilly just a new kinda technuh... technuh... nucular, uh, nucular-logical warfare device - yi'see like a weppin o' mass destrucshun 'n such - then I spozes we're gonna hav'ta bomb the livin daylights outta em varmints."
Elsewhere in the world, France has surrendered and is to be re-named "LOLOLOLOLOLOMG111`". When asked how the newly conquored country would be managed, AOL spokespersons simply pointed out that a small council would be appointed, comprised of the following individuals:
More news as it unfolds.
South Korea's 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong Il is a huge movie fan, so the training 'tool' being used is probably this. All the South Koreans need to do is make sure their garbage files are well protected.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Just beacuse we've heard how Kim Jong Il II, the leader of N. Korea, while playing golf for the FIRST time, shot around 5 (FIVE!!!) holes in one for a total score of around 38 UNDER PAR, doesn't mean that we shouldn't believe anything that they say.
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1) Open Outlook Express 2) Attatch Malware 3) Fill in address field 4) Hit Send 5) Tune in to CNN
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"The problem is that North Korea is both dangerous and oppressive on a scale that makes Iraq look like Luxembourg by comparison."
Have you ever been to luxembourg?? fucking scary place. They strip search you before selling you CHEESE for fucks sake!
600 crackers for almost 23 million persons ?
I understand why they say they are starving !
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Unfortunately, they've only been able to buy six Internet-able computers and three acoustic-coupler modems due to Kim Jong-Il's awesome management skills.
- chrish
UN: What happen ? ....
South Korea: Somebody set up us the bomb.
South Korea: We get signal.
South Korea: What !
UN: Main screen turn on.
South Korea: It's You !!
North Korea: How are you gentlemen !!
North Korea: All your base are belong to us.
North Korea: You are on the way to destruction.
South Korea: What you say !!
North Korea: You have no chance to survive make your time.
North Korea: HA HA HA HA
So? I'm sure the NSA and GCHQ have their own highly trained crackers. What exactly is the point of this article? It kinda points out the obvious, something that has been true for many years. Electronic warfare has existed since the invention of the radio jammer. The extension to this onto the net is inevitable.
The question is, should we invade? Do the have any oil?
In the US we have millions of crackers. They don't even need training. Wait, you meant the "other" type of cracker.
Never mind.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Was I the only one who immediately thought crackers was referring to white people?
This would also explain all the e-mail I get from the .kp domain promising "VIAGR4 FOR CHEAP!!!11"