North Korea has lost internet, US responsible?

[iruixos]

This immediately came to mind:

 

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

It's just stupid since if we did do this, then it's really fucking childish.

You and I know best of all how our government is

[AHaskin14]

The pictures on this thread are better than the actual content which is prett funny to begin with.

[Mojo-Jojo]

Well... 1024 devices did lol

Technically, and I'm getting into semantics here, they might have had more or less than 1024 devices. They had 1024 assigned official addresses, but they may have been using just a hundred, or they could have NATed the addresses to use more than 1024 devices, or, as I hinted, been using addresses of which it is not known they're North Korean.

[Real_PhillBert]

Technically, and I'm getting into semantics here, they might have had more or less than 1024 devices. They had 1024 assigned addresses, but they may have been using just a hundred, or they could have NATed the addresses to use more than 1024 devices.

True, but we are splitting hairs when you compare that number to the billions of IP addresses that the US has.

[Mojo-Jojo]

True, but we are splitting hairs when you compare that number to the billions of IP addresses that the US has.

Yep, it's not like the common North Korean will notice. All they have is access to the North Korean Network, full of propaganda.

I was on a North Korean site earlier this week (Can't reach it now, obviously) and all it spoke about was how South Korea was violating human rights and how Human Rights Organizations are actually scum.  :rolleyes:

[Real_PhillBert]

Yep, it's not like the common North Korean will notice. All they have is access to the North Korean Network, full of propaganda.

I was on a North Korean site earlier this week (Can't reach it now, obviously) and all it spoke about was how South Korea was violating human rights and how Human Rights Organizations are actually scum.  :rolleyes:

Lol.  But I have sometimes wondered how you would really know if the information we are seeing (like our internet) is full of propaganda as well. 

[Briggsy]

I'm sure a country full of starving brainwashed people are gonna care about this. It's not like they can download food, especially when its all in their leaders stomach.

[StingBull]

Really? You got the world's biggest and strongest military force, highest tech weapons and the best thing they came up with was a glorified DDOS attack... How fucking nerd have the world become...

[Briggsy]

Lol.  But I have sometimes wondered how you would really know if the information we are seeing (like our internet) is full of propaganda as well. 

 

If you are only reading/watching news from american websites, more than likely its filtered to some degree. but whats the alternative... alex jones?

[JAKEBAB]

Doubt north korea was behind the attacks also apparently the fbi evidence is bs and they "lost" the evidence.

[mr moose]

Lol.  But I have sometimes wondered how you would really know if the information we are seeing (like our internet) is full of propaganda as well. 

 

It's absolutely loaded to the hilt with propaganda and misinformation, there is no doubt about that.  The thing is though,  in the US, Australia and UK there is also counter information and at least a monica of unbiased government/university funded sites to counter the BS.

[Tech_Dreamer]

[Akolyte]

Right now, it could be the US or another problem, maybe it could be North Korea.  Seeing as they are being blamed for hacking Sony Pictures and threatening movie cinemas I can see why they would want to do this and blame the US for striking back at them.  

 

To me this seems like a childish fight, however instead its real people who are being affected.   While if North Korea did indeed strike the hack on Sony, then I beileve they deserve this, yes. But at the same time I would have thought the world would be more mature, I would have thought Kim Jong Uhn, or whatever his name is.  Would say a formal comment to the US stating why the Interview Movie offended him and how he would not tolerate the movie being shown. 

 

But really, I think I'm putting my hopes to high. The emperor of North Korea is a little crazy.   And if the US doesn't show that they are powerful and strong it could put them and other countries at risk. 

[flibberdipper]

You and I know best of all how our government is

Stupid.

[bcredeur97]

hmm... i bet they shut it down just so they could blame the US and start a war

 

 

just seems like something they would do.

[Kyuubixchidori]

I Wonder if this actually effects anyone thats not actually in the government. whats sad is, more people outside of north korea might know the internet is down then people inside of north korea. I mean, how many people that live in north Korea have access to the internet to begin with? 

 

because apparently acording to earlier in the thread, they have 1024 devices connected to the internet?(aprox)? does that mean my school alone has more internet connected devices then north Korea? 

[Trik'Stari]

I Wonder if this actually effects anyone thats not actually in the government. whats sad is, more people outside of north korea might know the internet is down then people inside of north korea. I mean, how many people that live in north Korea have access to the internet to begin with? 

 

because apparently acording to earlier in the thread, they have 1024 devices connected to the internet?(aprox)? does that mean my school alone has more internet connected devices then north Korea? 

Or kim jong un tripped over a cable

[Kyuubixchidori]

Or kim jong un tripped over a cable

whats sad, is that some companies might have single buildings that have more proccessing power then their whole country. I mean our school has 8 30 pc labs(240 pcs), and 2 Imac labs. both are running last year I5s. between that, and the chromebooks. let alone the school has public wifi, and almost all of the 2000 students have smartphones. let alone any ipods/tablets. so. kinda wrecks their country. and thats one school. hell my house alone is probably pushing 50-60 devices alone

[Trik'Stari]

whats sad, is that some companies might have single buildings that have more proccessing power then their whole country. I mean our school has 8 30 pc labs(240 pcs), and 2 Imac labs. both are running last year I5s. between that, and the chromebooks. let alone the school has public wifi, and almost all of the 2000 students have smartphones. let alone any ipods/tablets. so. kinda wrecks their country. and thats one school. hell my house alone is probably pushing 50-60 devices alone

So what you're saying, is that a single household with a few PC's is capable of ddos'ing their entire country? Pathetic, they truly are the "diet coke of evil"

[Opcode]

[CatCloud]

Well Lizard Squad DDOS:ed one of Sweden's largest ISP's (or well, it was EA that they DDOS:ed but Telia was their ISP) not that long ago which made pretty much all of Telia's customers disconnected completely from the Internet, since broadband, IP-phone and IP-tv stopped working. Telia has millions of customers while NK seems to have about a thousand.

I don't think they have several ISP's in their country with that few amount of users. Just an assumption though. Therefore, if their one ISP is DDOS:ed, then it's not that unlikely that everything stops working.

how long ago was this and how long was the internet down? Because I haven't had issues for the past 2-3 years with them.

[Simons]

It is not that hard to take a complete country down, when it is such a country like North Korea, as we are talking about getting to main servers IPs, and taking them down. Think of it like this..

 

ISPs have multiple devices that are being let access to the internet by a main router, this main router is the one that has the original internet access, its basically like your own network. I dont know how many ISPs they have in North Korea, but I guess you can count them in one hand. Furthermore, if this is actions taken by the United States Government, I just can't stop to love them, awesome move.

[Photonic]

North Korea has internet?  

[Sauron]

I'm not an expert, but can you DDos an entire country?

 

Considering north korea censors 99% of the internet and only a couple thousand devices are connected at any time it might just be possible ^^ but I highly doubt the US would be doing it.