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North Korea Gets Second Route To Internet Via Russia Link (bloomberg.com)
Russia is providing North Korea another way to get on the internet, according to cybersecurity outfit FireEye. In an interview on Monday, FireEye's chief technology officer for the Asia-Pacific region, Bryce Boland, said that Russia telecommunications company TransTeleCom opened a new link for users in North Korea. Until now, state-owned China United Network Communications Ltd. was the country's sole connection. Bloomberg reports: "Having an additional loop via Russia gives North Korea more options for how they can operate and reduces the possibility for the United States to put pressure just on a single country to turn off their internet connectivity," Boland said. For Russia, it offers "visibility into North Korean network traffic that might help them understand what North Korea is up to." TransTeleCom, a unit of state-owned Russian Railways JSC, is one of the country's five largest communications service providers, according to its website. The company operates a fiber optic network that runs along railway lines and stretches from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg. TransTeleCom "has historically had a junction of network links with North Korea" under a 2009 agreement with Korea Post and Telecommunications Corp, the company's press office said in an emailed statement that offered no other details.
To Japan. Anime might just that country a spin :)
For Russia, it offers "visibility into North Korean network traffic that might help them understand what North Korea is up to."
Surely they won't peek?
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
Now they can download at 112K!
Russia says, the enemy of our enemy is our enemy as well. We see no problem with North Korean hackers, as they have committed to not attack any Russian infrastructure, but only that of western countries boycotting Russia and North Korea.
We have nothing to do with the upcoming increase in cyberattacks on western targets. We do not even know it will happen. We deny everything, even before it happens, so we are innocent.
This is just the latest move in a bigger game.
Not many people noticed, but even while Trump was excoriating China over its support of North Korea and demanding it cut back its support of the rogue regime, Russia was moving in to take up the slack. In the first three months of this year, Russia significantly increased its trade with North Korea. I don't know what more recent figures show, but I have to think it's more of the same.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/06/05/russia-boosts-trade-north-korea-china-cuts/102389824/
From the Chinese perspective, how can this look like anything except Trump using his position of power to push China out of a market so his buddy Vladimir Putin can move in and pick up the slack?
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in Soviet Russia we network you!
A sizeable number of Slashdotters will agree:
Russia is actively undermining the US of A's [potential] hegemony here. Folks in the US administration cannot be impressed by this development, can they?
For Russia, even after a few rounds of sanctions from the US, its economy reportedly grew!
Good for them.
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You probably guessed, but because the summary omitted it, from TFA: "Until now, state-owned China United Network Communications Ltd. was the country’s sole connection."
News for geeks... helpful if someone included the IP ranges so for those who desire to do so, the NK ranges could be blocked.
Russia created the Stalinist state of North Korea
Russia provided North Korea with missile and nuclear weapons technology until the 1990's.
Now this. Kindred spirits.
...And they do more business with Russia than the USA.
Have a read.
The US hammers China for supporting North Korea. In order to protect its access to US markets, China pulls back a little...on coal exports, for example. Russia moves into the vaccuum and increases its trade with North Korea threefold in the first half of 2017 (specifically including increased coal export to North Korea).
Russia's investment in getting a friend into the White House is sure paying off!
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you have as little right to try to deny the people of North Korea access to Internet as you have the right to deny them water.
Have gnu, will travel.
Did Russia just win the internet?
Internet brings undeniable openness. So saying that it is life line to rogue state is stupid.
At least now on people who control internet in NK are under influence of it.
...to cut off an already isolated, despotic regime with nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, with a leader that craves international attention. Sooner or later, you're gonna have to sit down and talk with them. The alternative may be a nuclear warhead going off somewhere in south-east Asia, probably densely populated.
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