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North Korea Training "Cyberwarriors" Abroad
jfruhlinger writes "A North Korean defector claims that the secretive totalitarian state is nurturing a team of "cyberwarriors," identifying young people with computer skills and sending them abroad to learn the latest hacking techniques, while lavishing privileges on their families at home to keep them loyal. This could lead to an escalation in tensions, especially given that the US military believes that cyberattacks from foreign countries constitute acts of war."
Well, if its state sponsored, i have to agree. An attack on a countries infrastructure is still war.
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So, the totalitarian state with a complete control of the news sends its best and most idealistic young men outside the country, to learn about the internet, with the idea that they will go back home and use their knowledge to destroy the foreign enemies.
A fiendish plan. How could it possibly go wrong?
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The US has already got their cyber warriors in training for this. They are using the highly sophisticate program/simulation game called "Homefront"
Unfortunately for the USA, 'cyber war' is another form of asymmetrical warfare where the USA's massive budget can't help them.
Hacker teams require relatively little in the way of resources, while allowing weak militaries to punch far above their weight.
Worse, a country like North Korea has minimal internet exposure compared to the USA's massive reliance on the internet.
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except when such cyber warfare is directed at Iran by a join Israel/U.S. operation. Then it's just ... uh. Definitely not war.