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North Korean Internet Is Down
First time accepted submitter opentunings writes "Engadget and many others are reporting that North Korea's external Internet access is down. No information yet regrading whether anyone's taking responsibility. From the NYT: "Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, an Internet performance management company, said that North Korean Internet access first became unstable late Friday. The situation worsened over the weekend, and by Monday, North Korea’s Internet was completely offline. 'Their networks are under duress,' Mr. Madory said. 'This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers,' he said, referring to a distributed denial of service attack, in which attackers flood a network with traffic until it collapses under the load."
Fallout 2 or Fallout 3? This will make a very big difference in who will get angry.
Sony is worth more than NK though, so not really.
The blame?
The guy who tripped over the modem's power cord? There can't be that much blame to go around when a network that size drops dead.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Someone picked up the phone, that's all.
Anyone on /. who does not know what ddos means should be condemned to a lifetime of reading DOS boot disks in binary with a plastic monacle.
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It would be fairly amusing if the next world war was started over a film of dubious quality.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The blame?
I imagine Bush.
...in other news, kim jong un now reportedly threatening verizon customer services with ground attack after being on hold for 90 minutes...
Did they try turning North Korea off and then back on again?
Have gnu, will travel.
On the other hand North Korea is a military power including nuclear weapons. Sony however has a remake of Annie which is expected to clean up at the next Razzies. Quite frankly I'm more afraid off Sony.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
I have quite a bit of extra unused CPU time. Where do I sign up to donate to such a DOS strategy?
With me its not political. I just can't stand the haircut, so I'd like to vote no.
By sheer coincidence, Best Korea's IT chief just got a shiny CD in the post of Ray Charles' Friendship album and played it just prior to the internet going down.