War! #NorthKorea hit by massive Internet outages; White House declines to comment -

[NACBA]

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/north-k...200426706.html

[jllundqu]

Be interesting to see what NK does after this...

[eats popcorn]

[kcchiefs6465]

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea is experiencing widespread Internet outages. One expert says the country's online access is "totally down."

It's not immediately clear if the Internet connectivity problems were an act of retribution for a major intrusion at Sony Pictures Entertainment that the FBI last week linked to North Korea.

President Barack Obama on Friday said the U.S. government would respond but didn't say how.

The White House declined to comment Monday. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters that of the federal government responses, "some will be seen, some may not be seen."

Doug Madory (Muh-DOOR-ee), director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, said the Internet connectivity problems were discovered in the last 24 hours and have gotten progressively worse to the point that "North Korea's totally down."

OP's link.

[Natural Citizen]

Hopefully, we don't have a case of government disrupting the sovereignty of another nation on behalf of a specific industry because it is said to interfere with said specific industry's profits here. That would be awfully TPPish. Like practice or suntin'...

[HOLLYWOOD]

Government(s) & Media... turning everything into a circus



Internet goes dark in North Korea, network researcher says - Pacific - Stripes

[enhanced_deficit]

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/north-k...200426706.html

These guys are probably ROFLing over this news.



Chronology of events:

U.S. Condemns Gaza School Attack as Israel Says ‘Battle Is Ongoing’
Aug. 3, 2014

Anonymous Hacking Attack Shut Down 'Hundreds' Of Israeli Government Websites
Aug. 5, 2014





Nearly 200 Hollywood Actors and Execs Sign Pro-Israel, Anti-Hamas Statement
August 23, 2014
Amy Pascal, Ivan Reitman, Seth Rogen, Phil Rosenthal, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marty Singer, Aaron Sorkin, Sylvester Stallone, Nina Tassler, Jerry Weintraub and plenty others lend their names in support

'Guardians of Peace' hacks Hollywood movies
November 28, 2014







Update 1:

Poll: What you see as more credible link to Sony pictures hack: Support for Israel or N. Korea?

Sony executive/hollywood support for Israel ..... 33.33%
Anti N Korea leader movie ................................. 0%
Other entity behind it .................................. 66.67%
No idea .................................................. ....... 0%

[CaptainAmerica]

If its true, it reminds me of FDR freezing banking assets and oil resource embargo on Japan

[CaptainAmerica]

But then again...Maybe North Korean communists are doing it to their own people to rally them around Kim Jun UN who has never really legitimately presented himself a threat to the world...

[Zippyjuan]

Average North Korean won't notice. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...ground/308414/

THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the citizens of, say, Tunisia or Egypt, to name two countries whose populations recently tapped the power of social media to help upend the existing political order, few North Koreans have access to Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. In fact, except for a tiny elite, the DPRK’s 25 million inhabitants are not connected to the Internet. Televisions are set to receive only government stations. International radio signals are routinely jammed, and electricity is unreliable. Freestanding radios are illegal. But every North Korean household and business is outfitted with a government-controlled radio hardwired to a central station. The speaker comes with a volume control, but no off switch. In a new media age awash in universally shared information—an age of planet-wide instant messaging and texted manifestos—the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea remains a stubborn holdout, a regime almost totally in control of its national narrative.

[Natural Citizen]

I don't know why I thought of this. Heh...

[Dr.3D]

I wish these guys would wait till summer to do this stuff. It would be really nice to keep my furnace running without having to break out a generator.

[tod evans]

From Drudge;

N. KOREA THREATENS STRIKES ON US AMID HACKING CLAIMS

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...12-21-21-44-06

President Barack Obama is "recklessly" spreading rumors of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyberattack of Sony Pictures, North Korea says, as it warns of strikes against the White House, Pentagon and "the whole U.S. mainland, that cesspool of terrorism."

Such rhetoric is routine from North Korea's massive propaganda machine during times of high tension with Washington. But a long statement from the powerful National Defense Commission late Sunday also underscores Pyongyang's sensitivity at a movie whose plot focuses on the assassination of its leader Kim Jong Un, who is the beneficiary of a decades-long cult of personality built around his family dynasty.

The U.S. blames North Korea for the cyberattack that escalated to threats of terror attacks against U.S. movie theaters and caused Sony to cancel "The Interview's" release.

Obama, who promised to respond "proportionately" to the attack, told CNN's "State of the Union" in an interview broadcast Sunday that Washington is reviewing whether to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism

The National Defense Commission, led by Kim, warned that its 1.2 million-member army is ready to use all types of warfare against the U.S.

"Our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the White House, the Pentagon and the whole U.S. mainland, the cesspool of terrorism, by far surpassing the `symmetric counteraction' declared by Obama," said the commission's Policy Department in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

North Korea has said it knows how to prove it had nothing to do with the hacking and proposed a joint investigation with the U.S.

North Korea and the U.S., which fought each other in the 1950-53 Korean War, remain technically in a state of war because the conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The U.S. stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea to deter aggression from North Korea.

The rivals are locked in an international standoff over the North's nuclear and missile programs and its alleged human rights abuses. In the spring of last year, tension dramatically rose after North Korea issued a string of fiery threats to launch nuclear strikes against Washington and Seoul.

[DamianTV]

Gosh. I. Wonder. Why. This. Happened.

[Pericles]

North Korea has computers?

[r3volution 3.0]

The National Defense Commission, led by Kim, warned that its 1.2 million-member army is ready to use all types of warfare against the U.S.

The NORKS are about to flood across the DMZ and unleash a gigantic....o wait, they starved to death, nevermind.

[mosquitobite]

Makes me wonder if another country (say Russia) has a CIA as versed in instigating chaos as we are...

[Origanalist]

Sooo, the administration that can't put together a functioning anything is waging cyber war? Good thing it's only NC.

[HOLLYWOOD]

here's some entertainment

[Natural Citizen]

Makes me wonder if another country (say Russia) has a CIA as versed in instigating chaos as we are...

This is one of the best and more relevant questions I've read on the board lately. Covert operations are, in fact, a game that two can play. Or three. And if we're paying attention, that is exactly what is happening geo-politically.

I had mentioned the phenomenon with regard to China over in another thread. This stuff is almost predictable. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post5599285

[oyarde]

Average North Korean won't notice. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...ground/308414/

Yeah , I cannot believe people actually think regular people in North Korea have net , LOL

[oyarde]

North Korea has computers?

lol ,LOL

[cindy25]

Hopefully, we don't have a case of government disrupting the sovereignty of another nation on behalf of a specific industry because it is said to interfere with said specific industry's profits here. That would be awfully TPPish. Like practice or suntin'...

they disrupt it all the time, from Mega in NZ, to piratebay in Sweden, to Swiss banks. and its for Hollywood and Wall Street

[enhanced_deficit]

So this "war" based on agencies claims lasted just one day?

This is major step down from the Iraq war that ddg puppet masters have been waging for 11+ years.

[Zippyjuan]

North Korea has computers?

Can't find the number right now but heard a report that the entire country has about 11,000 IP addresses.

[enhanced_deficit]

SWC team got to be scrambling to do damage control over this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9A9q0g7x9Y

SONY HACK WAS 'LAID-OFF STAFF'

[Dr.3D]

North Korea has computers?

LOL, North Korea has electricity?

[HOLLYWOOD]

Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies... The government lies & deceit just continue to pile, upon pile.

You've gotta be a complete idiot to believe anything the government tells you.