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| North Korea May Be Training Hackers |
| 2003-05-16 |
| North Korea, an impoverished communist country suspected of building nuclear weapons, has developed another weapon: cyber terrorism, a senior South Korean military officer said Friday. North Korean computer boards are made of tree bark etched with a sharp rock. How are they going to develop hackers? Maj. Gen. Song Young-geun, head of the South Korean military's Defense Security Command, said North Korea is churning out more than 100 computer hackers a year, and urged the South to boost its ability to fight ``cyber threats from the outside.'' Computers are a rarity among North Korea's hunger-stricken 22 million population. Visitors say the Internet is available only at a few hotels in the capital, Pyongyang. Yet, ``North Korea is reinforcing its cyber terror capabilities,'' Song said at a seminar on information protection in Seoul. Song did not produce evidence to back his claim. He was going to but his computer got ... oh, never mind. South Korea is one of the world's most wired countries, with nearly 70 percent of all households having high-speed broadband access to the Internet. Concern over cyber terror spiked after South Korea's Internet service came to a near standstill early this year because of a virus-like computer infection. That was the dissertation of one of the NK hackers. Guess he got an 'A'. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 "Juche Valley"? |
| Posted by: Matt 2003-05-16 14:48:45 |
| #4 The DPRK has a slightly more fundamental problem as far as the IT/it industry is concerned - no juice. They can't keep the lights on in Pyongyang on a consistent basis, let alone supply the power required to have a flourishing IT industry or develop hackers. |
| Posted by: The Marmot 2003-05-16 13:29:10 |
| #3 Probably have a Commodore 64 and a 1200 baud modem. They have stunted the IT world there - essentially barren ground. So how do they expect to develop "hackers" when hackers tend to trhive on intellectual freedom and anarchy? This is them tryint to train the children of the eleite - which will result in failure. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2003-05-16 12:26:31 |
| #2 Oh boy wait until they discover Windows 3.1 !!! |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-05-16 10:19:41 |
| #1 Ah-ha! Could this be the goal behind "it"? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-05-16 10:13:07 |