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North Korea Internet, Cell Phones Go Dark
When it comes to crude attempts at humor, The Interview may (and should) have been a stunning flop, but meanwhile the real comedy continues in the real world, whose absurdity has made any IPO of The Onion impossible.
According to Reuters, North Korea's Internet and 3G mobile networks were paralyzed on Saturday evening, China's official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
The network had not returned to normal as of 2130 local time, Xinhua reported, citing reporters in the country that had confirmed the situation over fixed telephone systems.
The report comes after the North Korean government called Obama a "monkey" and blamed the U.S. for enduring instability in the country's internet infrastructure, after the U.S. blamed North Korea for hacking attack on Sony Studios.
Do you see what happens Larry, when you, supposedly, use all of your crack 16MHz 80286 supercomputers to dictate to Americans what C-grade comedy flops they can and can not watch?
Meanwhile, here is a candid look at what is surely the worst job in the world at this moment.
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Only while it lasts. :-)
No porn this Christmas
Two questions and a comment..
- They really made it past the 8088?
- Was the Sony hack a false flag to get us to this?
- Maybe the little-Un does not have the patience and composure of Putin.
Banzai7 hasn't modded those hats......has he? O.o
Without internet, how will the chosenites take over? Propaganda doesn't work if you can't turn it on. The chosenites will fix this.
I sure hope that little Nork hit a save point on Oregon Trail before the lights went out.
very funny picture indeed only thing is that they have a-bomb.
Ebola.
NSA at work, practising for hacking Russia's networks.
In totally wotally completely unrelated news, productivity in North Korea has increased 100-fold ...
... families and friends are reported to be looking at each other and talking to each other directly with no electronic medium in between ...
... pedestrian and traffic fatalities have fallen 95% ...
Ummm...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea
"As of late 2014 there are 1,024 IP addresses in the country. ...the country's total bandwidth has been 2.5 gigabits per second.[13] I ...There are about 30 websites, such as North Korean June 15th Editions (Chosongul: ????????) and www.kcckp.net/en,[dead link] run by the DPRK government."
Soo.....probably no effect on the average citizen and today's 'eat tree bark or don't eat tree bark' discussion....
++++++++++
Thanks.
HERRO!? HERRO!?
IS DIS TING ON?
SUM TING WONG..
PULL STRING TIGHTER!
We'll keep poking them until they do something that we can bomb them for
"We'll keep poking them until they do something that we can bomb them for"
No way on earth.
North Korea is a nuclear power. America only bombs countries that cannot retaliate.
NSA at work, giving the congress a reason to legislate away online privacy and/or install an internet kill switch. (They've already done both of these, but with the added scrutiny lately, NSA wants them to be legal.)
The game is so obvious it's comical at this point...
Been that guy in the chair trying to fix the "internet" before, not really fun at all.
The Nazis were pretty meticulous on the paper angle as well, seems to be something common in the dna of tyrants.
Actually that budget debacle went a long way towards easing the legal skids on a lot of upcoming planned redistribution.
Well, at least they got that "monkey" part correct.
Too bad they didn't call him a homosexual and his Wookie a transsexual, then we would see some fur fly.
never gonna happen, he just loves some Dennis RODman
But did he give Rodman a puppy?
As an advocate for the NAASP (National Association for the Advancement of Simian Persons), I take umbrage with the vulgar comparison of the golf- addicted dark denizen of the white house with the noble and much more intelligent Simiforme orders.
Orangutan deemed to be 'person' in first-ever court ruling
Non-human primate...I have always been intrigued by that scientific term.
Orangutan's are smarter than humans. They refuse to climb down out of the trees and work for worthless paper money or go into debt.
On a side not, when they referred to our beloved leader as a "monkey" they left off the word "porch".
Brilliant observation.
Here Kim. This is how you finish level 7 as the Chinese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGc2QGYhNuU
As soon as he gets the internet up and running, he can download this and then relax.
The only way they'll be able to deliver that A-bomb accurately is with Fed-Ex. Fortunately, with fuel prices dropping, might be within their annual budget.
All this bullshit over a crappy movie.
As if they need to be on the main country network if they are such ace hackers.
As if they even need to be in NK to do the hack. As if they could not pay some ace underground hackers to do the hack.
Right there, this whole story falls apart.
This is psyops 101, with some really weird undertones.
Not good at all...this would not have the MSM world stage unless it has soem really nefarious purpose.
Like a bad dream, this whole drama unfolding is...
They just paid the nice man with the American accent.
Actually, they didn't pay him. He said he'd do it for free.
Well, they didn't actually ask him, he just read Kim's mind.
Well, he told me that he read Kim's mind so he must have, that's good enuff for me!
Not so much "read Kim's mind", as deduced that must be what we wants to do. I mean, why wouldn't he?
...
And this happens at the same time theres's been some serious hack attacks (SK nukes, German metal foundry.)
I think the nefarious purpose is to prep the internet for lockdown to slow down coordination of news and protests when the big eventtm happens, and/or take more steps to identify and track specific individuals online, akin to an internet no-fly list. Power is only useful when only you have it, so they need some serious de-democratization of the internet.
If this is the end goal, then I'd predict we have a serious, significant hack that directly impacts a meaningful number of US citizens, like shutting down the ability of all BodA customers to spend for a week, bogus charges for 25% of VISA customers, or something similarly big that would give justification for a really draconian internet control law wrapped up in the pretty package of protecting people.
I have an internet slowdown drill everytime I access ZH.
Can no longer stream RT.com without constant 'buffering'.
Recently discovered site with very fancy graphics showing 'realtime' hackattacks worldwide. Kind of like that game 'battleships' that we played as kids. Peephole into the amount of data mining being consolidated and analysed. "How do the do it for the price?"
http://map.ipviking.com/
As you say, very interesting, and thanks for posting the link.
Especially in view of the origin of the nefarious activities (e.g. China). I notice that Washington / Oregon seem to be "locations of interest". Wonder why??
Info from dropdown states:
Norse Dark IntelligenceEvery second, Norse collects and analyzes live threat intelligence from darknets in hundreds of locations in over 40 countries. The attacks shown are based on a small subset of live flows against the Norse honeypot infrastructure, representing actual worldwide cyber attacks by bad actors. At a glance, one can see which countries are aggressors or targets at the moment, using which type of attacks (services-ports).
http://www.norse-corp.com/
Also relevant post from Pippa Malgrem concludes 'nose to nose' cyber and real space shooting war on already. Multi trillion derivatives implosion sure to be blamed on 'cyber attack', whilst the real perps walk. Probably already algos written to flow-feed the profits to priority players.
http://kingworldnews.com/dr-philippa-malmgren-12-27-14/
Yeah. The instant the movie was shown the entire North Korean Ace Computer Hacker Corps tried hacking Sony at the same time. This overloaded the piece of string that was carrying the information and now they have to wait for the new cotton crop to finish growing so they can replace the piece of string.
... and don't knock those 16MHz 80286 computers. Probably more productive and reliable than what we've got now. Okay ... , maybe give us an old '386.
I love new technology, but I'm no longer sure that I can trust it.
80286 caster than modern computers. It is really all in the operating system appicati9n compiler you use put together. Modern computers are so user friendly and so c9ncermed with identifyingnthe user uni ocally that they are indeed extremely slow in practice. For instance Id take any day an i0286 running an optimized version of linux with a custom assemboy level program optimized for that computer than any current processor running under windows. Of course we are not talking bought cutting edge supercomputers running parallel processes. But no hacker needs those. Most hacks are based on well egineerred bootstrp type viruses, that vrow on their own. Those could created and written in an 8085 based computer. What matterz is the smarts of the virus engineering and its ability to mutate and adapt, not the processing power of your computer.
Yeah. And WW1 started over assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. That one guy who's famous for absolutely nothing was worth millions of human sacrifices.
Hey man, poke all the fun you want, but that fucking guy downloaded 100 terabytes of information from a private SONY server from his single DSL ISP in less than 2 days.
He is teh b3st l33t3st haxoar in teh wurld.
After 25 years, he was finally about to get Leisure Suit Larry laid...
Wondered if anyone elso noticed the NorKs have to win the worst military dress hat award (MDHA). Though those Russian ceremonial door openers (RCDO) hats have to be a close second.
This whole fiasco reminds me of "The Producers" several decades ago.
Wag the Dog.
"Don't mention the B2 bomber"
They shoot old Crays, don't they?
Naw, they frame them and hang them on the wall. One of the wall decorations in my Dr's offic is an old cray board.
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Damn, and I spend every Saturday prank calling random N. Koreans.
Sample: "Is your refrigerator running? I'll bet it has no ketchup in it - unlike mine! Ha!"
- Nonsense! My fridge is full catsoup!
North Korian porn is western food flyers .
no, general. the problem is we must enter https:// before all URLs to keep our communications from the yankee imperialists.
ROR!
N Korea is one the last countries not enslaved to the banking cartel.
Cuba was another. Watch what happens next.
"i''m so ronerey...so ronerey."
"FUCK YOU HANS BRIX!!!"
I'm So Ronery.... a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_9QhRzJEs
Was the viral marketing for this movie already top notch, with the actor in the White House contributing, it becomes even better, that now USrael uses it's false flag viral marketing to attack North Korea.
Make a propaganda movie, make the sheeple keen on it, make them even believe to "defend their freedom" by paying for and watching it and then even attack the victim and blame all on the victim.
Shalom!
Sony execs and actors are the collateral damage in this. A small price to pay.
Must... Have... Free... Markets... in N.Korea...
The Us has just as little chance as North Korea of achieving the Rule of Market.
"Sony execs and actors are the collateral damage in this. A small price to pay. "
To hell with those 'execs' and 'actors'.
For the most part SONY and the major studios have provided little beyond propaganda, crude violence, and adolescent circuses for their absurd compensation.
Is it useful and desirable for the culture to be dominated by lies, aggression, pettiness, and greed?
Fuck 'em.
Free the underlying culture from domination by these ideologically captured adult children and dilitants and the segments of the populace deluded and soothed by them might stop acting like spoiled children, victims and sociopaths.
How many scripts are out there that don't involve conflicts and people dying? "The Celestine Prophecy" is probably one of the few in existence!
Just don’t make any movies staring Muslims (White folk of course) infiltrating Israel then killing all the Jews by poisoning their water supply or some such mischief like gas.
If it was a comedy it would be OK
Wars sell movies. Movies sell wars.
fuck those evil little trolls. shut down their whole fucking country
Shut down Israel?
Young David, the son of god, has gone crying to his mommy after reading that one!
If we could do that we would not have lost the Koean conflict. Remember they now have nukes and they have not much to loose. Lets hope cooler heads prevail.
Hey Dave, how do we know Jesus was a jew?
A. Because he lived at home until he was 30, went into his father's business, his mother thought he was the son of god and he thought his mother was a virgin.
Yeah because the North Koreans have ruined your life by....?
I have been conditionned my whole life to hate North Korea. A couple of years ago, I realise that I in fact have no desire, nor any reason, to do so.
They've done nothing to me or my family. The way they live in their country is none of my business.
That NK IT guy either fixes it pronto, or he is a dead man.
It is a positive sign to see a shave head in IT, rather than a Twinkie (RIP) eating snark.
Cooler heads will prevail.
Meh, every time they call Nork tech support they probably get "Larry" in Manila, just like I do.
Sum Ting Wong.
Wi hak yu.
"I am sorry, sir, but Pirate Bay is down and I can't download a bootleg copy of 'The Interview.'"
you forgot the gun at Computer Operator's head
This is real smart - provoking a known wack job.
We may not like the way he retaliates??
Only a whack job would cooperate with chosenites. This kid is the real deal.
Why does the guy at the computer not have a salad bowl on his head like the other guys?
the answer is simple he is on death row the others are not lol
It's in the dishwasher.....
I like the guys furiously taking notes behind Kim. Would love to see those notes
"Retirement planning. Action 1. Get copy of 'Windows 95 for Dummies"
You mean like these guys?
http://bokertov.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/23/yad_vashem_0...
SIOP re "Why does the guy at the computer not have a salad bowl on his head like the other guys?" :
'cos he's the only guy who knows how to get past the meteorite planets on Total Annihilation.
Just in case you had any doubt, North Korea was NOT behind the hack on Sony;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2887081/North-Korea-NOT-Sony-hac...
Doesn't matter. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
Manufacture a crisis, for out of its chaos comes the order desired by the big club we ain't in. Seems to work as few people go back and read the fine print to confirm if it was a real crisis or a black swan type event - they are too busy learning about the next crisis.... like manufactured bread crumbs leading us towards the desired programmed response to future events.
Yup! And Russia didn't shoot down that jetliner but that doesn't stop the US from blaming them. It's pretty reckless to provoke two nuclear powers with false allegations!
Unless it may serve another agenda.
Recall the works of Anthony Sutton regarding the Cold War - immensely profitable to many corporations with globalist owners who ensured it was sustained with business and tech deals.
I guess this time its different? It actually sovereign states not globalists provoking the new meme ripening the world for war?
Not to forget our dear friend the BIS and its member and non-member-soon-to-be-member lists?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-tower-of-basel-secretive-plans-for-the-...
another Ellen Brown special
and this treat from another ZH'r by a Russian seeking the Ellen Brown solution to fiat Ruble... didn't see the BRICS path mentioned interestingly enough when I skimmed through the doc.
http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia%27s_freedom.pdf
Based in the BIS, Basel, BIS translates 'policy' into 'action' via G20 actors via FSB. Good Ellen Brown takeaway here:
http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-986-ellen-brown-explains-the-new-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Stability_Board
"Truth is the first casualty in War". NEVER forget that.
"By Way of Deception" is now also the American Way.
The Army of Darkness works thus: By way of Deception, Slander, Lies, Provocation, Coveting & Stealing, Anger, Merciless Cruelty, cold Murder. To them "Truth is a cheap commodity", and human life is like that of an animal or a bug. To anyone outside their Species or Tribe, they are machine-like in their coldness and thoroughness in extracting/taking what they want, and destroying as they see fit. Theirs is a Heart of Darkness, and they are True Evil. Just like the being they secretly worship.
> Just in case you had any doubt, North Korea was NOT behind the hack on Sony;
Opening day receipts were a feeble $ 1 million (for a film that "allegedly" cost $ 80 million to produce (!) ) http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-interview-illegally-downloaded-750000-times/
So, wonder who SONY were REALLY "working for" on this one, and wonder what the real purpose of all the hot air from El Presidente was??
Far, far too much effort put into this for the observed result. We may rest assured that something else is afoot; something thet "they" prefer remains unnoticed for now . . . . .
Hey man , they just deployed a 64kB RAM upgrade to their Government Central Computer , once it's fully operational they should be able to hack into any kids Password Journal toy and fully decode it's contents.
"Chickety China the Chinese Chicken...
You have?"
is the illegitimate foreigner in the WH something else, or is he a monkey?
Boy, those North Koreans will do anything to get attention.
The Obama/Soetoro Administration is full of amateurs, but I don't think they would be so childish as to shut down DPRK comms.
Yes they would. You have to be able to field test your toys to be sure they really work.
Extra pluses when you show the rest of the world you are willing to do this kind of a thing.
Short Cisco.
I would use NK as a weapons testing + armed forces training area = just give them everything, continuously.
I would love to see the look on Kim Cow Face when he emerges from his deep underground bunker to find his empire in smoldering ruins. Great teaching aid for other international scumbags, eg ayatollahs.
How often are you a sucker for US propaganda?
NK regime is full of 1st class scumbags deserving of destruction regardless of propaganda from USA regime.
Learn the meaning of AND, ie USA regime sucks AND NK regime sucks orders of magnitude MORE.
"... emerge from his underground bunker to find his empire in smouldering ruins." :
Are you sure he'd notice the difference?
Do you live there,,, or are you reciting what you have read or been told?
Edit: How many countries has N.Korea invaded in the last 30 years compared to ... I mean, lets get our definition of scumbags cleared up.
Go there and try to live as freely, speak & write as freely, as you do in the USA (IF you are in the USA).
IF you return, THEN we can have an informed discussion.
PROBER
look in the mirror
Your self-righteous mask hardly disguises an insatiable
psychopathic desire to commit mass murders.
Network engineer here.
North Korea has one path to the Internet, and that is through China. The Internet uses Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System numbers (BGP ASNs) to announce which set of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses can be reached via a certain route. With only one AS, and that AS being controlled by a foreign country, NK's Internet connection is at the mercy of China choosing to announce that AS or not.
An alternative theory is that the AS was hijacked, and is being announced elsewhere. This less likely, and more difficult than China choosing to not announce North Korea's AS.
Hmm, interesting motorollin.
So, maybe the Chinese are just shutting their little Rottweiler up 'cause it's not time yet.
OR, maybe they're stirring their little Rottweiler up 'cause the time is nigh.
(Born To Be Wild?)
Remember when Syria's internet went down? And later we heard that it was just the NSA monkeying with their border routers? Apparently the NSA was just trying to listen, but somehow messed them up.
If that gateway between China and NK is Cisco, maybe it is remotely hackable.
what's next
they gonna take away nintendo?
OK, that does it!
North Korea calls Obama 'a monkey' in latest hacking salvohttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11314300/North...
"North Korea calls Obama 'a monkey'"
I'm confused - do you mean that he's not?
Unprovoked attack.
Kim Jong-un really has no other options but to launch a tactical nuke strike.
If Kim Jong-un let’s this go, nobody will respect him. He’s a paper tiger.
I think that the thing to keep in mind is that neither NK nor anyone else has to use missiles to deliver a nuke. Missiles leave a trail back to the launch site, ensuring retaliation. I can think of dozens of scenarios for getting a nuke onto a freighter for sea delivery anywhere in the world. (And delivery by tramp steamer is only one of many completely credible scenarios for deliovering a nuke to a target while maintaining plausible deniability.)
You might say that US and EU ports are protected with detection devices? Who says the thing has to be detonated IN a port? Offshore of any very populated area like LA or NY (or DC, not to give anyone ideas) when the winds were right and nobody would actually be able to say definitively who had done it. NK? ISIS? Iran? CIA? Israel? Venezuela?
Tokyo? No problem. Taipei? No Problem. Tel Aviv? London? - well, you get the idea.
Want to start a war between Pakistan and India. No problem. A nuke just offshore of either Karachi or Mumbai would get both sides punching big red buttons PDQ with absolutely no hope that calmer heads would prevail. If it was Mumbai the Indians would immediately assume Pakistan, and if it was Karachi the Pakistanis would immediately assume India.
It is a really bad idea to be fucking with the little fat psychopath in NK, but nowhere near as bad as allowing psychos to control every government and corporation in the world, much less most of the world's armed forces. A global meltdown is virtually guaranteed - just a matter of time.
Modern nuclear warheads are extremely compact (e.g. the W80 (150kt nominal max yield) is about a foot wide, and less than 3 feet long).
Doesn't take much imagination to pack one of those in the middle of a consignment of co-incidentally radiopaque materials, and a 20ft ISO cotainer provides LOTS of space for your absorbent . . . .
Portside monitoring? A big "MAY" be possible, but if you expect to effectively (and reliably) monitor just the ONE container in the middle of the bottom row of a modern 18,000 - container ship such as the Emma Maersk, I wish you luck, because that is where the weapon will be placed - nicely tucked away out of harm's reach.
With HUNDREDS of millions of container movements every year (150 million from China alone) it would make searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack an easy task by comparison.
How is Kim going to AOL IM with Rodman now?
North Korea doesn't even have electricity, the country is a proverbial no-mans land, its like the land time forgot. . . I think there are still dinosaurs running around in there.
http://s22.postimg.org/vndhj1n9t/NCAP.jpg
At this point instead of messing with nukes, North Korea should try to apply for some tribal relief and conservation program / protection to feed its tribal indigeounous people.
The North Korean people probably think everytime a jet-liner flies by that its their dear leader in spirit form.
The latest mental brain freeze from liberals is that they want to ban "hate speech". But they've taken a movie that entire plot is about killing the dictator of an Asian country as the new symbol of their support for free speech.
God I wish George Carlin were still alive.
'liberals' You're sooo cute....
Scratch, scratch run along now, Kitty Cat.
Have you ever seen a satellite image of NK at night? I am sure all 18 or so gov. employees who have cell phones are extremely pissed.
Yeah, I covered that the other day here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-23/marketing-campaign-now-complete...
For those who missed it:
I remember the lesson well. The Economics teacher had a map of Korea, as seen from space at night time. "See that?", he said. "All them lights in South Korea are due to capitalism and industrialization."
"And see how North Korea is dark? That's because they have all put up the blackest curtains and duct taped them to the windows so you can't see the glow of the computer monitors. That's because they're all training up to be the deadliest computer hackers in the world ... using, ummm, the computers that they invented and built themselves, no ... ummmm, they reverse engineered them and worked out how to program them themselves becoz they're so clever and now they're gonna hack the world, especially the movie business ... they hate us for our freedoms ... its either hack computers or work in the paddy fields, what do you think they're gonna do? ..."
Ummm, and then my memory gets a bit foggy ...
At least the people over there get a good night's sleep.
less light
stars are bright
no electronic toys
kids are forced to play with each other
lets not forget the that they are also not capable of becoming morbidly obese
except little kimmy
‘kids are forced to play with each other’
I fondly remember those days… All we needed was a blanket and Little Suzy from the end of the block.
u been hangn out with prober
The stars at night
Are big and bright
Deep in North Korea!
The stars that shine
They are all Mine
Deep in North Korea!
Correction: North Korea's only cell phone goes dark....
A thinking man would ask how do you know the internet and cell phones in NK are down?
Are you reporting via shortwave? WTFO?
"The network had not returned to normal as of 2130 local time, Xinhua reported, citing reporters in the country that had confirmed the situation over fixed telephone systems."
Time to read again?
I really like the hats in the picture above - big, wide hats on short little men.
Reminds me of a scene from Spaceballs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxTFqPET5I
Those hats will be collector's items some day.
Cool! Now I have an item I can sell at the Flea Market/Swap Meet!
That's okay, this is all the US is good for. The boomer Utopia, Screwing things up. While NK may have enjoyed some perks from living right next door to South Korea, who had the fastest internet in the world. Or benefit from Beijing who may have had some super bankdwidth speed- we get stuck with krappy bandwidth speed and no money to trade with while the computerized algos placed trades in a millisecond.
Even though the Air Force financed DARPA between MIT, UCLA and Stanford with OUR tax dollars (why are we paying for internet anyways? It's like paying for the roads that the Army once built with our tax dollars).
You don't need to be a commie dictator to suffer under the U.S. boomer "imperialism".
That's what they mean when tech speaks of "disruption".
They hate us cuz they anus.
I still feel sorry for the people there; brianwashed and hungry.
As opposed to brainwashed landwhales?
N Korea or the US?
Ass monkey!
The US is just showing off what they can do if it thinks North Korea tried to hack a Japanese company's emails. It's pretty easy for the US to do this, especially since they have hacked into North Korean government, infrastructure and military computers and networks for many years.
It is interesting that the US has said the Sony hack is 'an act of terrorists' - yet the US can do much worse to North Korea and it is not!
How bad is it in the Zionist west?!
So bad that they had to turn off the Internet and flow of truth to North Korea.
That's how bad it is.
The banksters need to repay us.
I wonder... how many Americans agree with the shameful petty school bully behavior of their leaders?
North Korea's 21st Century Technology Initiative: Connect Commodore 64s to the Internets....
Do they have anything to wear other than uniforms?
I've read and re-read in several languages, numerous news sites the alleged statement by the North Korean Government.
I swear to you I did not understand until now what they said was an offense or a finding.
hehe.
Heh - go figger....
The North Korean chimp calls the Merikan president-for-life a monkey....
Heh - go figger....
"I may be a Korean, but YOU will always be a nigger, hahahahahaha, Bath House!"
"You arso Gay, like to take big Lussian Dick up you ass!"
--Kim