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North Korea Has Just 28 Websites (vice.com)
In September of 2014, NetCraft confirmed there to be over 1 billion websites on the world wide web. There are over 140 million .com and .net domains alone, as well as millions of websites for each country code top-level domain (ccTLD), such as .de for Germany and .cn for China. But in North Korea, the number of websites the country has registered for its top-level domain is in the double digits. Motherboard reports: On Tuesday, apparently by mistake, North Korea misconfigured its nameserver, essentially a list that holds information on all of the domains that exist for .kp, allowing anyone to query it and get the list. In other words, a snafu by North Korea's system administrators allowed anyone to ask the country's nameserver: "can I have all of your information on this domain?" and get an answer, giving everyone a peek into the strange world of North Korea's web. North Korea has only 28 registered domains, according to the leaked data. "We didn't think there was much in the way of internet resources in North Korea, and according to these leaked zone files, we were right," Doug Madory, a researcher at Dyn, a company that monitors internet use and access around the world, told Motherboard. Some of the sites aren't reachable, perhaps because after Bryant discovered them, they are being deluged with traffic.
System Administrator, North Korea. Prior SA left to spend more time with Ancestors.
That query is called a zone transfer.
I hear a position has opened up.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
It's too depressing to read most of the time. And we never meet the heroic cool characters... Yet.
People who are familiar with DNS workings already know its formal name. No one else cares, and a plain explanation is more informative.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
But they are the best 28 web sites. Few ads, great approved information and very responsive.
Wait, so it is a big secret which publicly facing pages a country has registered? What is the point of making name servers black boxes and not having any way of know which names are registered other than to try them and see if they exist?
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Does some one have the IP list?
No one needs more than 28 websites...
How long it takes for any other country to launch these many websites. A nanosecond? Faster than the speed of light? xD
It is important to use the actual names, especially in conversations with people who aren't yet familiar with the vocabulary. People learn by seeing and hearing the proper words in the context of unfamiliar concepts.
That's all the domains they could fit on the 250 MB Seagate MFM drive on that Intel 386 system from 1980 running DR-DOS. You are lucky if the you can get a 4800 baud connection too with their crap wireline phone system...
I care, and I didn't know. Therefore, you are wrong.
On second thought, North Korea is such a dystopian nightmare of human misery there is no humor to be had here.
In North Korea nameserver... nope, not that either.
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Spoken by someone who has never been to North Korea nor knows how to point to it on a map.
It's not hard to point to PRK on the map. But if you go to it, you're the fucking idiot, because they have this tendency to just arrest people, torture them into confessing to a crime, then give them a prison sentence of 15 years hard labor.
And no, going there and coming back doesn't prove you aren't an idiot, nor does it prove that travel there is safe in any way, it only proves that you're lucky.
Hell they even kidnap people who aren't even in the country.
Such as:
gloriousleader.kp becomes gloriousleader.com
and the same for
bountifulharvest.kp
corruptwesternimperialistpigdogs.kp
victoryisnear.kp
weshallconquertheocean.kp
and so on.
I wouldn't like to be the owner of kp.com. Imagine the requests for sub-domains....
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
The only 28 pages on the internet you can visit without adblocker!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: North Korea is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered North Korea community when IDC confirmed that North Korea nuke share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that North Korea has lost more nuke share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. North Korea is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Nuke Admin comprehensive nuking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict North Korea's future. The hand writing is on the wall: North Korea faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for North Korea because North Korea is dying. Things are looking very bad for North Korea. As many of us are already aware, North Korea continues to lose nuke share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Western North Korea is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its nuke developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time western North Korea developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: western North Korea is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Northern North Korea leader Kim states that there are 7000 citizens of northern North Korea. How many citizens of southern North Korea are there? Let's see. The number of northern North Korea versus southern North Korea warheads on Koreanet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 southern North Korea citizens. eastern North Korea warheads on Koreanet are about half of the volume of southern North Korea warheads. Therefore there are about 700 citizens of eastern North Korea. A recent article put western North Korea at about 80 percent of the North Korea nuke supply. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 western North Korea citizens. This is consistent with the number of western North Korea Koreanet warheads.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, western North Korea went out of business and was taken over by central North Korea who sell another troubled shithole. Now central North Korea is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that North Korea has steadily declined in nuke share. North Korea is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If North Korea is to survive at all it will be among shithole dilettante dabblers. North Korea continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, North Korea is dead.
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
You dictators, corporate and state, think alike.
Table-ized A.I.
Hey Dan, ready for that public hanging of political prisoners? I'm just finishing up here with my new kayaking friends.
Kayaking friends on your computer?
Dan: Yeah, I just got North Korea online.
Sounds great. Listen, I can't go to the public executions today.
WHAT?
First my kids have to go to the library to read books on how great Our Leader is. Then I have to stand on a street corner and yell revolutionary slogans at complete strangers. And I have to contact my mother; she's making kayaks in a slave labor camp and gets executed tomorrow.
Hey, we can take care of all that before we go.
Yeah, right!
No, with North Korea online!
North Korea online can do all that?
How about sending your mother some nice flowers?
Pornhub, Redtube, xhamster, amazon, google, facebook... that's it right?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
One is for weather, one for shopping, four movie sites, 10 are news/propaganda and the rest are porn.
The story of North Korea does indeed have some heroes to it!
Lee Soon-ok
Kang Chol-hwan
An Hyuk
And plenty other survivors and escapees. Imagine what it would take to plan an escape from North Korea, and actually carry it out. Soon-ok and Chol-hwan served time in labor camps where they saw executions and human experimentation, and still had the stones to manage an escape knowing what horrible fate failure would get them. If that doesn't merit the label of hero, I don't know what would.
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rediculous.
No it's not. Using the proper terms and then explaining them is the most informative explanation if the piece is meant for laymen.
has to orally satisfy Putin 28 times per month, 30 times in February.
More worrying is that North Koreans have only access to these 28 sites.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Spout your propaganda as you will, you Communist stooge. I have been there. People aren't starving as much now as they were 15 years ago, but living as a NK civilian is very bad still and probably getting worse.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
It also makes it MUCH easier for the curious to google it and learn more.
If they at least use the proper name people have something they can look up, otherwise they are limited to googling descriptions and hoping the thing they found is what the summary is describing. Things have names for a reason!
Wow, such selection. Are any of them porn sites?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I am anti-political regardless of the model, of course, you'd rather interpret it in a different way, since you are a pseudo-democratic capitalist stooge. But just in case you have two good brain cells:
Current estimates are that about 330k people starved to death between 1993 and 2000. According to WFP there is currently no famine in N. Korea. There is still under-nutrition though, but their government has done a lot to improve the situation, especially given what they actually have at their disposal. I hope you at least know you can't feed the starving uranium.
Meanwhile, in the USA in excess of 400k people die annually as a direct effect of eating junk food, which is the only food they can afford. And that number is growing. Even worse - the US is very eager to impose that garbage on the rest of the world - thanks but no thanks. And that's just one of the many flaws which dwarf the negative aspects of the N. Korea regime.
Every year in the US more people die from eating garbage than the number of N. Koreans died in the country's worst famine, which is now a thing of the past. That's a FACT, be a man and deal with it, or be a worm and squirm to ignore it!
Solving N. Korea wouldn't make a different in the downhill trend of the world, solving the US will make it better for everyone, especially N. Koreans. If you really care about those people as you claim, you'd do something that can actually help their situation rather than doing what you do now, which is only helping those who created their situation. Eliminate the threat of the USA and N. Korea will scrap its nuclear program, cut on its defense expenses, and redirect resources towards the wellbeing of their people. The threat of the USA has locked N. Korea in survival mode, and in that mode it can't grow.
Wow, ~33k annually for a country less than a tenth the size vs. 400k. That isn't a larger percentage. Also, what age groups are each including? Every body will die at some point, and dying at 75 instead of 80 because of eating habits is a lot different than dying at 20 instead of 70 because of lack of food. Trying to compare absolute numbers that are very different situations isn't about "getting the numbers straight" (especially when not even doing the math right) but about trying to disingenuously deceive others.
There are a few thousand white-listed internal websites on their own internal network that can't be accessed from "The Internet" when outside North Korea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)
Porn is banned in North Korea though, and I'm not sure sneaker netting like in the Middle East is worth it there.
DPRK is sure a weird place. I'm not sure I trust everything either side has to say about what is going on there however.
WTF happened to slashdot? Domains != websites, you fucking noobs.
Who needs the web when you have sweet, sweet Manbang.
When America loses the war.
running on the web server.
Many of us read stories about things which we do not know, on purpose, in order to know. So it is correct (all through history, not just for me) to spell out an acronym the first time it's used- then acronym only thereafter.
Example: msauve appears to be a YIRMF (young inflexible judgemental rude mo fo), though I do hope he learns, or at least learns to not inject himself into others' business just to hear himself crow.