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Medrea
Profile Joined May 2011
10003 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-27 14:51:35
August 27 2012 14:48 GMT
#21
Al Jazeera likes to over-project its findings, into places it doesn't belong.

North Koreans cyber attacks consist mainly of broad attacks, simply striking whoever is vulnerable.

Now if you wanted to see what South Korea could do if all of its best minds were unleashed on the world....
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NuKE[vZ]
Profile Joined July 2012
United States249 Posts
August 27 2012 14:53 GMT
#22
On August 27 2012 23:47 radscorpion9 wrote:
Also to people who are ridiculing North Korea as having technology from the cold war, I mean just watch the video and see some of the things that North Korea has already managed to do, from infiltrating and shutting down major banks to nearly releasing a computer virus in an airport terminal that could have resulted in plane crashes. If you watch the video, former cyber-warfare intelligence operatives and university professors who defected to South Korea talk about what the North's interests are and some of their capabilities (in addition to high-tech assassination attempts).



Couldn't have said it better myself, anyone that has followed the news in the past few years would understand that. Mendrea, you believe because a Country does not provide basic essentials such as electricity makes a country not up to par technologically, which makes me laugh.
Medrea
Profile Joined May 2011
10003 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-27 15:50:09
August 27 2012 14:59 GMT
#23
Medrea, c'mon its 6 letters >.>

The keyword was warfare if I recall. Not hitting up banks and airports. And its not fair if we don't measure South Korea's cyber warfare capabilities as well. Hacking is easier than defending against hacks anyway.

Also saying South korea is at a disadvantage because they are too busy playing video games.

What the fuck logic is that? South Korea has a big smoking problem. Im waiting for the Al Jazeera article saying that South Korea is at a disadvantage because if North Korea attacks everyone in South Korea will be on smoke break.
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AKomrade
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States582 Posts
August 27 2012 15:12 GMT
#24
Drill and train sports practice six hours a day for five days to prepare for competition, obviously professional player.

Drill and train video game eight hours a day for seven days to prepare for competition, obviously addicted.
ALL HAIL THE KING IN THE NORTH! HAIL! HAIL!
NuKE[vZ]
Profile Joined July 2012
United States249 Posts
August 27 2012 19:25 GMT
#25
On August 28 2012 00:12 AKomrade wrote:
Drill and train sports practice six hours a day for five days to prepare for competition, obviously professional player.

Drill and train video game eight hours a day for seven days to prepare for competition, obviously addicted.



no such thing as cyberwarfare in sports though!! xDDD
Typhoon1789
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Australia292 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-27 19:35:27
August 27 2012 19:34 GMT
#26
On August 27 2012 23:59 Medrea wrote:
Medrea, c'mon its 6 letters >.>

The keyword was warfare if I recall. Not hitting up banks and airports. And its not fair if we don't measure South Korea's cyber warfare capabilities as well. Hacking is easier than defending against hacks anyway.

Also saying South korea is at a disadvantage because they are too busy playing video games.

What the fuck logic is that? South Korea has a big smoking problem. Im waiting for the Al Jazeera article saying that South Korea is at a disadvantage because if North Korea attacks everyone in South Korea will be on smoke break.


Man that last bit gave me a good laugh. Thanks for that!

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SupLilSon
Profile Joined October 2011
Malaysia4123 Posts
August 27 2012 19:40 GMT
#27
I'm sorry. I had to laugh when you said that Al Jezeera and Russia Today were among the only "real news outlets" in the world today. Can't really take you seriously after that..
Raid
Profile Joined September 2010
United States398 Posts
August 27 2012 19:54 GMT
#28
As a software engineer I find this to be laughable considering S.Korea is one of the most connected countries in the world. In comparison I would believe N.Korea does not even let their citizens have internet. Cyber warfare is not about the numbers but the talent pool you have.

Not to be biased or racist, but I also find it laughable that Al Jazeera is making unprofessional comments about cyber warfare when their own countries in the middle-east such as Iran were planning on running Nuclear energy off Windows. In which case failed miserably when "anonymous country" decided to hack them.
Olex
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States135 Posts
September 08 2012 01:27 GMT
#29
Here is the link to the story. Also sent this to juicyjames. Good stuff!
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Gben592
Profile Joined August 2012
United Kingdom281 Posts
September 08 2012 06:28 GMT
#30
There is no way, NO way South Korea coulf ever be at a disadvantage. Barely anyone in N korea actually has computers, never mind the skill to hack and stuff ^^
"The more skilled player is the one who wins, and I don't think there's better balance than what we have now." INnoVation
tsuxiit
Profile Joined July 2010
1305 Posts
September 08 2012 06:31 GMT
#31
There ought to be an SC2 tournament between North and South Korea to encourage world peace. Doesn't the new supreme leader like computers and stuff?
Copymizer
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark2108 Posts
September 09 2012 01:30 GMT
#32
On September 08 2012 15:28 Gben592 wrote:
There is no way, NO way South Korea coulf ever be at a disadvantage. Barely anyone in N korea actually has computers, never mind the skill to hack and stuff ^^

You do know the very political top have computers + internet and they do have people being trained in cyberwarfare to attack south korea. there's always something beneath the surface
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Xapti
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2473 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-09 02:06:05
September 09 2012 01:47 GMT
#33
LOL what a ridiculous claim Al Jazeera is trying to make. Have they read the reports of North Korea's technology? Their residents hardly have any computer use at all, and those who do, use antiquated PCs on an old tech isolated internet (or no internet at all), and the government agents get their cyber training from other countries (and even then it seems to be crap).

Sure South Korea plays games, but there's also South Korean online security firms, programmers, analysts, hackers, and all sorts of things. In North Korea there's none of that except for small, poorly-funded government IT guys and cyber-agents.
Games are a big business nowadays, and security is important. Proper hack-resistant coding mechanisms, network security procedures, encryption and authentication systems, and other things are certainly applicable to game technology and business technology, to which South Korea has a ton of both. The combination of South Korea's economy and tech environment/access alone is so much greater than North Korea's, and makes it far more powerful in an online environment.

North Korea's biggest advantage defensively is also it's biggest disadvantage offensively — it's isolation. If North Korea was to get any sort of virus spread, they couldn't use it to steal anything (at least not easily), they could only only destroy stuff. While that doesn't mean it couldn't cause damage, it does mean it's less beneficial for them (it would just get the world angrier at them if detected without any direct benefit to them).

North Korea being a cyber threat is a ridiculous joke — that story/documentary sounds more stupid than a Fox news report.
"Then he told me to tell you that he wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire" — "Well, you tell him that I said that I wouldn't piss on him if he was on Jeopardy!"
babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
8765 Posts
September 09 2012 01:53 GMT
#34
In the future, SK is going to beast everyone with each of their pilots flying like 200 drones individually at a time.

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But China will win with Transformers.
TheDougler
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada8324 Posts
September 09 2012 02:13 GMT
#35
Ten minutes into the video in the OP, this one is much less biased than that one that piece that CNN did though they are focusing on addiction, which I suppose is probably fair.
I root for Euro Zergs, NA Protoss* and Korean Terrans. (Any North American who has beat a Korean Pro as Protoss counts as NA Toss)
setzer
Profile Joined March 2010
United States3284 Posts
September 09 2012 02:16 GMT
#36
Already in the first minute and there are huge factual errors.

Calling GOM one of the nation's top rating TV shows? Saying Koreans care less about the Olympics than e-sports? I'll watch the rest (or as much as I can stomache) but like most pieces done of video games and e-sports by mainstream media this looks like hardly any effort was put in.

Of course I'm sure the nation that can't even correcly launch an ICBM could successfully wage cyberwarfare against one of the most technologically advanced nations.
uzushould
Profile Joined September 2011
Austria122 Posts
September 09 2012 02:44 GMT
#37
i just dont see how esports has anything to do with cyberwar....this video was just trying to hype imho

and to be completely honest, north korea is like 20 years in the past regarding technology and knowledge....

and this gameing addiction part was a bullshit as well....there are tons of people overdoin some kind of sport or somthing and i bet i could find partents who let their children die while they where doin something else in every activity out there.....be it sports or going to the casino, or even chatting in chatrooms or using facebook....that are just retarded people...and if they wouldn t be addicted to gaming they would probably be addicted to something else like drugs alcohol gambling or whatever that are just individual cases that doesn t matter at all.

overall a really really bad and pointless docu....
ShatterZer0
Profile Joined November 2010
United States1843 Posts
September 09 2012 02:48 GMT
#38
On August 27 2012 23:20 Medrea wrote:
They already do!

Bringing North Korea into the topic pretty much invalidates everything. Its just a video on game addiction. So while it has valid points. Talking about cyber warfare is laughable.

Everyone knows North Korea's only goal in war is to rush across the DMZ and take Seoul (50 miles away) in a swift decisive action.


North Korea lacks any plan to WIN a war in any way against South Korea any more... all they can really do is pray that their artillery threatening to raze Seoul to the ground is enough to perpetuate a standoff until the end of time.
A time to live.
SickeL
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
110 Posts
September 09 2012 03:05 GMT
#39
On August 27 2012 23:20 Medrea wrote:
They already do!

Bringing North Korea into the topic pretty much invalidates everything. Its just a video on game addiction. So while it has valid points. Talking about cyber warfare is laughable.

Everyone knows North Korea's only goal in war is to rush across the DMZ and take Seoul (50 miles away) in a swift decisive action.

Then SK will be fine. They've had years defending outdated 4pools- and now, they've had just the same amount of time defending 6pools. No issue, and we can probably except a really fast GG unless the Chinese interfere- which they won't, I don't recall where, but I remember the Chinese government releasing a statement comparing NK with a rebellious child.
A wise man once said "Oppa Gangnam style."
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
September 09 2012 03:21 GMT
#40
In general pretty much everything al-jazeera says I just kind of toss out the window. They are like reverse fox news, but sometimes fox is credible, whereas I have yet to see any of the Al-Jazeera news headlines not having serious bias or personal views injected into said news. Granted I don't read them much because of aforementioned statement, have to love cognitive dissonance. With that said, this is complete bullshit, I'm sorry. NK can't win, they lost all of their funding when the USSR fell, their last hope was china, but now china is breaking ties with them. The only thing they can do is threaten GNW (global nuclear warfare), if we are talking cyber warfare, its just not happening for NK.
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