Hacker in Pj's retaliates against N. Korea

[aceplace57]

P4x is such a bad ass.

I’ve read so many articles about N Korea, China, and Russian state sponsored hackers. Scary stuff. N Korea is still using obsolete OS (win XP, for example) with known vulnerabilities.

But, this isn’t the same as hacking N Korea’s military. This guy hacked a few commercial web sites that aren’t high priority.
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet | WIRED

Just over a year ago, an independent hacker who goes by the handle P4x was himself hacked by North Korean spies. P4x was just one victim of a hacking campaign that targeted Western security researchers with the apparent aim of stealing their hacking tools and details about software vulnerabilities. He says he managed to prevent those hackers from swiping anything of value from him. But he nonetheless felt deeply unnerved by state-sponsored hackers targeting him personally—and by the lack of any visible response from the US government.

So after a year of letting his resentment simmer, P4x has taken matters into his own hands. “It felt like the right thing to do here. If they don’t see we have teeth, it’s just going to keep coming,” says the hacker. (P4x spoke to WIRED and shared screen recordings to verify his responsibility for the attacks but declined to use his real name for fear of prosecution or retaliation.) “I want them to understand that if you come at us, it means some of your infrastructure is going down for a while.”

[Odesio]

I like to think he did his hacking in a dark room with screen images reflecting off him and the constant beeps and boops as he typed.

[aceplace57]

I can only imagine Kim’s reaction. Four frightened members of IT get dragged into the room, You didn’t run Windows Update? No dinner for a week!

[Shoeless]

@Odesio

I like to think he did his hacking in a dark room with screen images reflecting off him and the constant beeps and boops as he typed.

Wearing a hoodie and a Guy Fawkes mask. At least that’s how hackers are always presented in our corporate security training videos.

[EinsteinsHund]

@Odesio

I like to think he did his hacking in a dark room with screen images reflecting off him and the constant beeps and boops as he typed.

And endless columns of code in a green glowing font on a black background scrolling down on every monitor.

[XT]

@aceplace57

I can only imagine Kim’s reaction. Four frightened members of IT get dragged into the room, You didn’t run Windows Update? No dinner for a week!

No dinner for a week? Well, that’s a bonus, since that means they will get dinner next week!! Man, it’s good to be in IT!!!

[digs]

@Odesio

I like to think he did his hacking in a dark room with screen images reflecting off him and the constant beeps and boops as he typed.

And no mouse, just typing impossibly fast.
On a very loud keyboard.
clickity-clackity-clickity-clackity-clickityclackity…

eta: With occasional cuts to N. Korean agents running through the city. Until they finally look at their eye-Pad and proclaim “According to triangulation, he is right here. We have GOT HIM!”
They look up as the camera pans out to show they’re standing in the middle of a huge cemetery. “May yaks eat your shoes, P4x!”