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N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey"
Reuters reports that North Korea's government has publicly blamed the U.S. for the widespread internet outages that the country has recently experienced (including today), and taken the opportunity to lambaste President Obama, as well. From the article: The National Defence Commission, the North's ruling body, chaired by state leader Kim Jong Un, said Obama was responsible for Sony's belated decision to release the action comedy "The Interview", which depicts a plot to assassinate Kim. "Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," an unnamed spokesman for the commission said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, using a term seemingly designed to cause racial offence that North Korea has used before.
Looks like North Korea is the paper tiger. And Kim Jong Un needs a new speech-writer - the republican base claims prior art.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
There are more facets to Mr. Poopypants than I imagined..
If you post it, they will read.
Many of the same slashdotters who accept "experts" who claim NK didn't hack Sony will readily accept as truth that it was "obviously" the US that attacked NK, even though there is even less objective proof of that, and could just as easily be some Anonymous offshoot, or any number of other organizations, or even North Korea itself.
See the logical disconnect, here?
For those now jumping on the "North Korea didn't hack Sony" bandwagon that some security "experts" are leading for their own political or ideological reasons, including using rationales as puzzling and pedestrian as source IP addresses of the attacks being elsewhere, some comments:
Attribution in cyber is hard, and the general public is never going to know the classified intelligence that went into making an attribution determination, and experts -- actual and self-appointed -- will make claims about what they think occurred.
With cyber, you could have nation-states, terrorists organizations, or even activist hacking groups attacking other nation-states, companies, or organizations, for any number of motives, and making it appear, from a social and technical standpoint, that the attack originated from and/or was ordered by another entity entirely.
That's a HUGE problem, but there are ways to mitigate it. A Sony "insider" may indeed -- wittingly or unwittingly -- have been key in pulling off this hack. That doesn't mean that DPRK wasn't involved. I am not making a formal statement one way or the other; just saying that the public won't be privy to the specific attribution rationale.
Also, any offensive cyber action that isn't totally worthless is going to attempt to mask or completely divert attention from its true origins (unless part of the strategic intent is to make it clear who did it), or at a minimum maintain some semblance of deniability.
At some point you have to apply Occam's razor and ask who benefits.
And for those riding the kooky "This is all a big marketing scam by Sony" train:
So, you're saying that Sony leaked thousands of extremely embarrassing and in some cases damaging internal documents and emails that will probably result in the CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment being ousted, including private and statutorily-protected personal health information of employees, and issued terroristic messages threatening 9/11-style attacks at US movie theaters, committing dozens to hundreds of federal felonies, while derailing any hopes for a mass release and instead having it end up on YouTube for rental, all to promote one of hundreds of second-rate movies?
Yeah...no.
the US & Obama was quick to blame NK, when it was very unlikely they did it, and security experts are pointing out left & right.
Because Obama saying NK did it and we would retaliate, and suddenly NK internet goes down, fuck ya, we are guilty as fuck.
We wrongfully blamed the NK, got people to believe our lies and then DDos or whatever happened to NK's internet. All on our heads.
Our government owes NK a big ass apology and honestly, our government, from the congress critters up to the president, including all the various NSA, CIA, and rest of the stupid shit needs to be replaced.
This is not the America I'm proud of, I'm not a bully and not happy with the bully tactics America does.
Time for a change, time to take America back.
Be seeing you...
Cutting North Korea's Internet access is just a trial run, the real objective is to cut Internet access to everyone in the U.S.A.
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Cutting North Korea's Internet access is just a trial run, the real objective is to cut Internet access to everyone in the U.S.A.
Isn't Comcast already doing exactly that?
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Cutting North Korea's Internet access is just a trial run, the real objective is to cut Internet access to everyone in the U.S.A.
Well, they just need to go ahead with the Comcast/Times-Warner merger.
One net to rule them all, one DNS to find them, one link to bring them all and into dark ports bind them in the land of dollars where the politicians lie.
He's a politician. What the hell did you expect?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Scum I can see, but human?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Oooooook!
LMGTFY
George Bush Monkey Photos
Bush haters, from the days when Obama was merely organizing communities.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
I take offense at the comparison. I like monkeys.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
We are all essentially monkeys... blacks,white's, eskimo's and north koreans
Maybe you are; most of us are apes.
Monkeys like to throw shit around but they are mere amateurs compared to politicians.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Didn't the US say they were going to try and get North Korea's internet access cut?
It was suggested by "security researchers".
Sadly, it took more candy than they had on hand to bribe the 12 year old in Des Moines, Iowa to stage the BGP attack against the 4 routers necessary to take North Korea of the Internet, so it was several days until the attack went forward.
however it is a mere coincidence that monkey in one context means one thing and monkey in another means a complete other, and both are being used to describe presidents at a time.
Why did you even bother to write what you did? The contexts are obviously the same. It's meant to be a very insulting comparison. There might come a day, say in some "Planet of the Apes" future where being compared to a monkey is meant to be a compliment, but that obviously is not today.
There are far worse insults to throw at obama that aren't racist. Like how he uses robots to murder people because its more humane. Or how he is just the same in power as anyone else and he is really a hopeless president.
Let's hear some of these insults.
Also, most of us, including Obama, don't live in a forest or jungle.
That said, I mainly consider the statement defamatory to monkeys. People are the ones who are loose with words.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
trashing the economy, starting illegal wars and nearly bankrupting the US is not a "difficult thing", repairing the problems caused is though
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)