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Someone In North Korea Is Hosting a Facebook Clone (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the curious-case-of-North-Korea dept.

Reporter Jason Koebler shares: Someone in North Korea appears to have created a Facebook clone, according to an internet analytics company that traced the site's DNS to the notoriously isolated country. The social network is an off-the-shelf Facebook clone called dolphinPHP.
Dyn Analytics researcher Doug Madory said that "very few websites resolve to the North Korean address space, and this one does."From the screenshots in the article, the user interface, and other elements do look similar to that of Facebook.

13 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. Has someone already hacked it? by SeaFox · · Score: 2

    (referring to the ninja in the lower-left corner)

  2. Again? by jbmartin6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    North Korea again? What next, a story about North Korea forcing people to upgrade to Windows 10?

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    1. Re:Again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      North Korea again? What next, a story about North Korea forcing people to upgrade to Windows 10?

      Quit whining and absorb the propaganda citizen.

    2. Re:Again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Story twist: Mass migration to North Korea to AVOID upgrades to Windows 10! Red Star OS FTW!!

  3. they can save so many resources... by bkmoore · · Score: 3, Interesting

    by getting people to spy on themselves.

  4. Re:"traced the DNS" by aicrules · · Score: 2

    Do you think that TLD is a guaranteed identifier of where the site is hosted? Google's URL shortening service is hosted in Greenland? Nope. So, yes there would have to be tracing involved to find where the site is actually hosted.

  5. Re:ok by SeaFox · · Score: 2

    Who cares? It's not relevant to anyone. Why would you use a Facebook clone with virtually no users instead of actually using Facebook?

    Of course we should care! It's not a Facebook clone. Facebook is obviously an inferior clone of Best Korea's social networking site.

  6. Re:FYI... by Tukz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are they?

    They are both adored by women and both kinda fishy.

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  7. Re:A great way to do mass surveilance of citizens by Opportunist · · Score: 2

    Glad that we don't have anything like that out here in the free world.

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  8. Is this where all the fake pages are coming from? by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 2

    Every Facebook user has at some tie or another gotten that flurry of messages from people on their Friends list that they are getting requests to sign up again. Your Facebook age has been copied by a spammer who will then start selling magic diets and Florida real estate to everyone on your list. This scam is so common now that facebook has a special button for reporting it.

  9. Kim Jong Un by operagost · · Score: 2

    Kim created it because he is so ronery.

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  10. Re:ok by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2

    Why would you use a Facebook clone with virtually no users instead of actually using Facebook?

    Maybe Dear Leader is just a little lonely. Maybe he joined Facebook and nobody wanted to friend him.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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  11. Re:already hacked by Tom · · Score: 2

    Nor is any other commonly used language. PHP has a bad reputation because it's easy to get started with, so lots and lots of people write crappy software with it who wouldn't get their piece of shit to compile in other languages.

    The security of your application still primarily depends on your application.

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