North Korea clones Facebook, forgot to change default creds North Korea appears to have created a Facebook clone. Internet management outfit Dyn spotted the site late last week and helpfully provided the screen shot below for the site, which could be found at www.starcon.net.kp/. North Korea launches globally accessible Facebook clone (hosted in North Korea!) https://t.co/EbwSH8Zzc9 …
These ultra-paranoid states don't tend to work like that. Being "subversive" is the greatest crime, perceived or otherwise, including someone accusing you for their own personal gains, or corruption in (military) police.
Also no society is without social stratification, and there's bound to be "classes" of North Korean who are easier to persecute than others. So long as it wasn't seen as "sabotaging the state", I doubt the relatively highly educated people responsible were shot or even punished for this.
Mine is a wild ass speculation too because so little is known about NK. But extrapolating from Nazi Germany, McCarthyist USA, and the machinations of the Chinese politburo, I think it's probably closer to the truth.
I would not want to be responsible for that screw up. This is likely to get some one in front of HR firing squad .
Unless it was a trojan horse. Mr. Kim may be having the last laugh here.
I hope that the folks who "hacked it to death" used sacrificial PCs for their hacking, which were well-firewalled during the hack and then then reformatted and reinstalled. Personally I'd be a little bit more paranoid that that. NK is probably ahead of the world on firmware-resident malware, and the only really safe thing to do would be put the PC in the acid bath afterwards.
That prison camp, while horrifying and medieval, looks far less overcrowded than a US jail.
And is eating a fresh rat really worse than prison loaf? Being forced to eat intentionally bland food for an extended period makes you sick and averse to eating.
We instinctively know what a 20th century police state looks like, in the 21st century we've become good at hiding the police and the bars, creating a structurally invisibly prison society.
Carry on North Korea, you're doing great.
Wow, first their own* OS, now their own* 'social network'** - what's happening?
* Where 'own' means copying something freely availiable and revamping it a bit.
** Not a new idea for North Korea per se, it's just that up until now 'social network' meant the queue in front of the grocery store.
All jokes aside, it is also worth remembering that the United Nations' 2014 Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea found conditions in the nation are truly horrendous and that human rights abuses take place with “gravity, scale and nature … that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.”
You forgot to mention they eat dogs, have discovered a way to reverse death by bringing a previously executed high ranking official back to life on a monthly basis and are responsible for every large hack.
Whilst I agree their human rights conditions are probably not the greatest and they do aspire to be a nuclear power it's quite clear the neo-liberal western media have more of an issue with communism. Due to this I take the comment with a pinch of salt especially due to the fact they don't allow foreigners full access to the country. It's also worth noting that any evidence from defectors have to use human rights abuses in their claim for asylum.
You should read some reports on North Korea's concentration camps and read interviews by their defectors.
Sure, I can imagine a US based organisation being completely truthful about North Korea. Especially since the US split Korea to stop the advance of communism.
I'm not communist though I don't believe everything I read.
Again, as I have pointed out a defector is not going to say "it was a lovely country but I fancied a change"
Maybe if there wasn't so much bullshit about hacking or dead military commanders I would actually believe what is written, however due to the bullshit it makes it very difficult to trust what is being written.
Personally I couldn't care less, you seem to miss the point of highlighting western media and their portrayal of North Korea which is usually a mixture of lies, truth and something in between which I like to call "Blame without proof then never correct it when the truth is found"
I'm not judging I'm just highlighting the fact that due to the west's neo-liberal interest in not allowing a communist ideology to flourish I take articles and comments with a huge pinch of salt. I have and probably will get downvoted a lot, do I care? Nope, however to not comment on a part of the article which served no purpose other than to re-iterate the way western media likes to portray another country would be wrong. Do we add comments about human rights abuses with regards to indiscriminate drone strikes and assassinations to articles about the US? No we don't, so why should this be done for another country?
Edit: You can apply the above to Russia and Iran if you want. Same result. If you don't bend over for western ideology then you are evil.
If you don't bend over for western ideology then you are evil.
a north korean would probably take that label happily if their only punishment is being called a name, but at the moment they're fucked if they don't use one of the like 5 officially sanctioned hairstyles
it could be communist, capitalist or FSM; it's the human rights abuses people are arguing about here, not the communism
5 officially sanctioned hairstyles, I thought it was 18.
Back in 2005, North Korean state TV launched a five part series entitled 'Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle' with the aim of promoting short back and sides for its male population.
What part of that is forced?
Seriously, I think brainwashing and differing opinions are frowned upon these days.
5 officially sanctioned hairstyles, I thought it was 18.
oh well that's perfectly fine then
if i was offered the choice of the official hairstyles such as "the cameron, the osborne, the boris, the theresa may.." i wouldn't be awed at the sheer number of styles, I'd be annoyed that there was a number involved anywhere
you go on and live there son and tell me freely, online, how good and free and open it is and how much better than the UK life is
Oh for the love of dog...
Stop believing everything you read.
Stop being a consumer.
Stop arguing for no reason.
Stop pigeon holing yourself.
Eat more asparagus.
My point was valid and will always be valid as long as we have a media apparatus that has it's own agenda. Hilarious? I think not to most people. Grow some balls and use that mind you were blessed with.
"Stop believing everything you read."
That's easy, after all nobody does
"Stop being a consumer"
Sounds nice, but I Iike eating from time to time.
"Stop arguing for no reason"
Again, nobody does, but then I can see why you would like your word to be taken as gospell.
"Stop pigeon holing yourself."
Whatever that means
"Eat more asparagus."
How can I possibly do that without being a consumer?
I understand they have this wonderful large hotel that they would like to sell to you. Brand new, never been used.
Probably complete with speakers in every room ready for "hole in one" Kim ready to indoctrinate you on a daily basis.
Oh, one last thing. You might have to live there, and nobody stays there either, as having a "disposable income" really is frowned upon.
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