[177029] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: North Korean internet goes dark (yes, they had one)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Wed Dec 24 18:43:18 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:26:01 -0700
In-Reply-To: <DD3A5EC1-2425-4E98-AA31-D986787F57AD@gmail.com>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>> What would be the point in blocking them? They don't even have
>> electricity in the country, what would I worry about coming out
>> of their IP block that wouldn't be more interesting than dangerous.
>> Pretty obvious if it was really them behind the Sony hack, it
>> was outsourced.
>For the few elite that do have Internet in DPRK it would be 1) a big
>inconvenience which would annoy them a lot and 2) they have to transmit
>what they want attacked to the outsourced crew (whoever they might be)
>somehow. I doubt the outsourced group has a fax#.
I am pretty sure that they have fax machines in Washington Dee Cee.
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