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Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware
An anonymous reader writes, quoting the article: "At the start of this month, news broke that Iran and North Korea have strengthened their ties, specifically by signing a number of cooperation agreements on science and technology. The two states signed the pact on Saturday, declaring that it represented a united front against Western powers. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, told Kim Yong Nam, North Korea's ceremonial head of state, the two countries have common enemies and aligned goals. On Monday, security firm F-Secure weighed in on the discussion. The company believes Iran and North Korea may be interested in collaborating against government-sponsored malware attacks such as Duqu, Flame, and Stuxnet."
I'm guessing that was an unintended consequence of those malware programs. Unless there's an advantage I don't see with Iran and North Korea strengthening ties.
You think 1930s Germany and Italy working together was bad. This totally freaks me out.
Considering all the trade and economical sanction, and the collapsed economy, where does North Korea get its computers from?
Well up until recently, Kim Jung Il designed and built them all himself.
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where does North Korea get its computers from?
Probably from the same place they got their nuclear technology: our dear friend and ally Pakistan.
Out of curiosity: which Nazi innovations am I using right now?
I'm pretty sure they made up the word "Nazi", which you just used.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when those two get together one weekend to install FreeBSD for the first time.
but this does not mean that enemies are just made up hoaxes
the venom from north korea and iran is real. just ask a japanese, or a syrian
this is where you lecture me on how these are peace loving harmless countries that have been turned into monsters, just to slake a thirst to spend money by an industrial complex in the usa
you know, there are actually real breathing human beings in north korea and iran who think and have their own ideas, completely of their own will and independent volition. some of their ideas come from concepts they dearly believe that are older than the united states' existence. not just cardboard cut out reflections of some western propaganda from decades ago from a dead cold war era. maybe you should conceptionalize the fantasty that there exists real people outside the usa with their own agenda that did not start in washington dc
some of them have agendas that carry some malice for peace on this earth, not just malice for the economies of the west. what they believe and think is their own original creation, and may require defeat on a battlefield
i say that not because i love drinking oil from the skulls of dead children, or whatever nonsense you believe about someone like myself who would say such a thing, but because i understand, unlike you, that menace does not only flow from one place in the world, and the usa is not the only country with a military industrial complex
in fact, if you want to see the most complete representation of the idea of a military industrial complex controlling a country in all avenues of power, try pyongyang. tehran, not so much, but the revolutionary guard there is trying its best to defang the mullahs and be more of a direct military industrial complex dominating a country, just like pyongyang
so if you oppose the idea of the military industrial complex, you oppose north korea. unless your supposed principles are not so much real principles, just a thin veneer for the same old tired tribalism of hating a country or nationality such as the usa just out of the same old tired empty chest thumping avarice you believe you are above somehow?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
And if it weren't for trying to break Nazi crypto, the Allies probably wouldn't have invented computers as we know them.
Don't forget about grammar.
Anytime you done wrote a complete sentence with proper grammar means the grammar Nazis have won.
Yeah, if you're doing anything that involves a satellite, there's some Nazi tech. Your country is holding back the dogs of war with nukes that contain Nazi tech. If you ever did anything that involved hypothermia, you have Dr. Mengele to thank, of course he got that very useful information by freezing hundred of Jews to death, which while useful makes it one of the hardest won pieces of medical information ever collected and forever Mengele a scumbag of monumental proportions.
In fact the Nazis were brilliant engineers and there are literally thousands of improvements in motors, cars, trains, heavy machinery, factories and engineering and applied sciences that are a permanent part of everything we do. That doesn't mean they weren't barbaric. It does mean that they produced some amazing technology in the headlong race to self destruction. Hmmmm, sound at all familiar?
What are they possibly going to do? They are outgunned in every respect - technologically, economically, and militarily by everyone who won't put up with their shit. Pre-WWII Germany had built itself back up to a manufacturing and academic (well, before they chased out the jewish PhDs) powerhouse. Meanwhile we've got the Mullahs afraid that people might actually learn things while at university and a North Korean populace that is reduced to eating grass every 10 years or so. Comparing Iran and North Korea to pre-war Nazi Germany doesn't even pass the belly laugh test.
Did you even see the ludicrous North Korean attempt at a supposed satellite launch? What about the photoshopped missile launch test from Iran?
Compare and contrast to the years between WWII and Yeltsin shelling Parliament when I would see maps in the Providence Journal of what would happen if a nuclear warhead detonated over Quonset Point Naval Air Station - an actual, credible, threat. That's what gets me about this "war on terrorism" and "axis of evil" bullshit which chews up trillions of dollars and ruins soldiers' lives for few actual results over imaginary threats to the US. We're supposed to soil our underwear over some technologically backwards regimes who don't even have actual long-range missiles and their medium range missiles leave much to be desired?
You want cyberwar? How about "accidentally" "dragging an anchor" over an undersea cable in the Persian Gulf or off the coast of North Korea? Because that's what our response is going to be if Iran and North Korea become offensive with malware botnets and they can do fuck-all about it. It's not like it hasn't happened before.
Threat? Please.
What fucking threat?
The people playing up this "threat" of Iran and North Korea are a bunch of pants-wetters and chickenhawks with only one thing in mind - making money off the unjustified fear and advancing the ideologies of PNAC and FPI banging the drums for boots-on-the-ground war with Iran and probably NK. Dan Senor isn't exactly a "potted plant" to take a term from Ollie North's lawyer.
Oh yeah, and guess who Dan Senor works for?
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BMO
the venom from north korea and iran is real. just ask a japanese ....
Say what??
Ask Japanese about the Koreans?
For Your Information, it was the Japanese who invaded Korea multiple times throughout history
Not the other way around
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !