I put “hacked” in quotes because of how lame the security was. From The Korea Times comes this info:
Yep. You read that right. The password for the admin account was password. Personally, I was hoping that they’d upped the security level to having the password be 비밀번호. But this is still pretty funny.
That’s why The PRK can’t have nice things. The West always has to piss in their soup. PRK builds really cool fireworks -Boom! Sanctions. PRK builds awesome ski resort - Pow! Shit reviews. And now, PRK goes Zuckerberg and gives their people a fun place to share vacation pics as soon as at a later date they acquire both vacations and permission to take pics, and - Splat! Some probably ginger kid in what arguably isn’t even entirely a country has to show how clever he is. It’s enough to make Kim Jong-un stop smiling.
For fans of North Korean IT, our favourite pariah state has released its own official Linux distribution, which you can download and install as long as you don’t mind all your stuff being beamed back to Pyongyang. (That’s not a joke - one of the Linux magazines tested it, and it’s riddled with spyware).
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If we had a like button, I’d have just pushed it.
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It always amazes me how NK can’t feed its own people but they can have nukes, PCs and their own version of Facebook.
OK, I’ll bite. What does this mean?
Regards,
Shodan
“password”
The name of the network is actually “Best Korea’s Social Network”?
Let me be the first to call bullshit. I’m guessing this is a Korean Onion -type story that has been repeated as fact by western media outlets.
Here’s the CNN article. It’s possible the website itself was fake, but it looks like that reporter actually visited that website.
Literally, it’s “secret number”. I don’t know why, but that tickles me every time I hear it in Korea.
It seems to be something hosted in North Korea but for “friends of North Korea” outside the country. Apparently it was done as some kind of test. What kind? We’ll probably never know.
Oh, and Wiskey Dickens; while The Korea Times isn’t the best newspaper out there, it’s no Onion, and certainly not a “western media outlet”.
You got me on both points, the story must be true!
At least it made it past the borders.
Who the hell has computers or anything with which to post in North Korea? Facebook with 20 people on it?
And no one would have noticed had the kid not posted that Kim Jong-un was, in fact, shorter than Dennis Rodman.
Gatopescado:
North Korea is an industrialized country with trade relations with China. Pyongyang is a city of over 2.5 million people. You think no one has a computer?
Only a relatively elite few in NK are permitted to have computers – estimated at somewhere from 1000 to about 5000 – mostly tech students, government, and military. Their “internet” is really more of a nationwide intranet, very restricted and heavily censored, with very limited connection to any net outside the country.
Google internet in North Korea to find many articles in western media describing it. Some examples:
Your poster guide: A fascinating glimpse into North Korea’s ‘internet’
You do when using Tapatalk.
And now you just told North Korea you’re using Tapatalk.
What are they going to do, nuke me? 