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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Re:If true, the stakes are now higher.

[antifoidulus]

Heh, well it depends on how they do this. Remember, they do have some talented physicists and engineers probably capable of building a nuclear bomb. That knowledge had to come from somewhere outside of what the good Dr. Khan sold them.
They could be stupid and just send the party elite's children to this school because they found a virus on the internet and modded it to set the background of every computer to the picture of Kim Il Sung. OR they could have found students that were adept in math and languages and trained them to go to a university overseas(in China, Japan, South Korea, or the US) using fradulent passports etc. Remember, they did kidnap some Japanese people so they could learn their language, customs, etc. So it's very posible that right now there are North Korean spies studying at MIT, Shanghai University, Tokyo University, and the Seoul Institute of Technology(I'm not sure that all these places exist, but you get my point)
Hard to say with Mr. Il, he can be brilliant at some points, and incredibly stupid at others....