Australia Vulnerable to Korean Hacking Army

Nan writes "An army of more than 500 hackers hired by the North Korean military could find Australian businesses a "softer target" than their U.S. or European-based counterparts, according to security experts. The hacking army's mission is to break into South Korean, Japanese and American corporate networks to gather intelligence and steal trade secrets, according to reports."

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Those stupid liberals

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it's only leftists and liberals that talk about 'rights' in geopolitics anyway

Those leftists and liberals sound sooo naive. Maybe they want to change the culture of countries like the US (to be fair every super-power and minor power) so that they don't simultaneously talk about how righteous they are, and piss on sovereignty.

On the face of it, it DOES sound very naive, doesn't it. But it's only naive _if_ it doesn't work. That's a scary concept to grapple with... those liberals getting their way!

Well it takes about 20 years for a liberal to turn into a conservative without changing a single viewpoint. Once they are a conservative, they get their way. IMHO, that's a good approximation of "progress". You might want some proof...

Well, once upon a time, it was legal to own people, pretty much everywhere in the world. Then a bunch of liberals got in the road. At first they were heckled, then beaten, but eventually they became conservatives (by default) and got their way.

So what stops slavery now? Well it does occur in some "backward" countries. We think of those countries as backward because we find their acceptance of slavery as abhorrent. But WE were the slavers of THEM once upon a time. Call it a cultural change brought on by leftists of the time. Crazy eh?

We're seeing the same thing happen with the drive for equality for women, gays and ethnic minorities. Hell, it wasn't until 1984 that women were allowed to run the marathon in the Olympic games, because it was considered "bad" for them. It's amazing how quickly those liberals get their way!

In a geo-political sense, things have changed as well. Look at all the world condemnation of the US in Iraq. China would have invaded Taiwan decades ago if it wouldn't have made them look so bad. In the court of world opinion, they would have given the US (and others) a mandate to kick their ass.

Just read about how the US appropriated it's current territory. Do you think they'd be able to do it today, a mere few hundred and a bit years hence? Genocide is really uncool these days, and so is conquering other people. Think I'm exaggerating? Go peruse some of the Sioux-Congress treaties that the US made and broke with gunpowder. Dispicable by today's standards, but back in the day... well... they were only Indians.

It's only the PERCEPTION of the evilness of genocide and conquest that makes the Nazi's so uncool. They didn't do anything that hadn't been done before, by Europeans and others. When the Mongol Khan conquered Samakand, he cut off the head of the cities muslim priest, and held it up and told the people that he was "God's punishment for their sins". Thank god those liberals DID get their way in the end, maybe they were onto something.

It's the court of world opinion that exercises the power of the liberals of the pervious generation, that forces the high and mighty to change their ways.