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North Korean Hackers Rival CIA?

Posted by Zonk on from the wanted-leet-haxxor dept.

Bitchslap_69 writes "According to a report in the South Korean paper Cho Sun Ilbo, North Korea 'employs 500-600 hackers who are tasked with hacking into computer networks and disabling enemy command and communication systems.' The person making this claim is Dr. Byeon Jae-jeong of the South Korean Defense Ministry's Agency for Defense Development (ADD). He claims the DPRK hackers to be 'equal to that of the CIA,' whatever that might mean."

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  1. How do they get trained hackers? by gojomo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe they kidnap them from Japan.

    See for example their history of doing the same to acquire knowledge about the outside world:

    http://slate.msn.com/id/2087627/