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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. Two guesses... by msauve · · Score: 2

    Russia or North Korea?

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    1. Re:Two guesses... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      North Korea is trying to play nice guy right now. Getting caught hacking would be detrimental. Russia on the other hand is banned from the entire games and pissed about it. It's kind of a "duh" as far as motive.

  2. Re:Who could possibly be mad at the Olympics?! by bestweasel · · Score: 2

    Hey the athletes formerly known as Russians had no gold medals but now the scoreboard says 10 and something rude about NATO.

  3. Re: Well, that means... by negRo_slim · · Score: 2

    Red Scare 2.0, the ride never ends...
    What a time to be alive.

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  4. Re:Trump prisonathlon : Fraud, Obstruciton, Treaso by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Democrats won't lock up Trump for the same reason that the Republicans won't lock up Clinton.

    Locking up failed POTUS tier politicians just because they've committed a crime would set a nasty precedent that neither party wants to set - the system would spiral down into one where politicians would all end up in prison at the end of the careers rather than giving speeches to Goldman Sachs for $300K a shot. Or, even worse from their perspective, one where elite politicians didn't act like they're completely above the law. The horror!

    They're like two cats having a fight over who gets to fuck the female - they'll draw blood and maybe disable their opponent but they won't kill each other. The female in this analogy being you, the American voter.

    But keep chanting 'Lock her/him up!' if it makes you feel empowered.

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  5. 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...