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Games Organizers at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Confirm Cyber Attack, Won't Reveal Source (reuters.com)

Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizers confirmed on Sunday that the Games had fallen victim to a cyber attack during Friday's opening ceremony, but they refused to reveal the source. From a report: The Games' systems, including the internet and television services, were affected by the hack two days ago but organizers said it had not compromised any critical part of their operations. "Maintaining secure operations is our purpose," said International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesman Mark Adams. "We are not going to comment on the issue. It is one we are dealing with. We are making sure our systems are secure and they are secure."

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  1. Re:Face revealing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    That’s because there was a woman standing behind him who wasn’t accompanied by her husband and had authority over a bunch of men.

    Oh, you mean that North Korean harridan propaganda minister, who sits on North Korea's Politburo?

    You know, North Korea? That country that conducts assassinations in other country's airports using VX nerve agent? That blows up airliners? That literally starves its population? That tortures college students to death?

    It would be amazing if we could split a country in half, let one half go socialist and one half capitalist, come back 75 years later, and compare the results. What an experiment that would be...