https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-experiencing-severe-internet-200418060.html I think it's fairly safe to say this is the first act of retribution by the US for the Sony hacking done by NK. I'm curious to see how NK responds.
The US Govt can't shut down another countries internet. They can shut down access from the nodes they control, but that's it.
I don't know about that cube. I'm sure there are things our government an do that we never realized. Seems like this would be child's play for America.
While a great many sites are hosted in the states, there is still a vast internet that exists outside of the states. To shut down all flow in and out of the country would require either A) the country itself shutting down the nodes or B) every accessible node that connects the NK networks to any outside networks has to be shut, which would require an effort from every country around it that it connects too. A seems the most plausible right now... Or I could be way off. I'll be interested to see this develop.
Couldn't they tap in via satellites or other phone networks unless we want to shut them all down too? Doesn't seem plausible. We should cyber attack all their computers and wipe everyone out that we can connect to. That would be fun.
or C) the US called up China and reminded them just how much their economy relies on American consumers and China cut off NK's pr0n.
Uhh, how did you form that opinion? You're operating under the assumption that NK losing it's internet is just one big, giant coincidence, days after the US blames them for hacking Sony and Obama saying the US will respond?
Years of working with computers and networks. Here, this will explain it easier then I http://www.livescience.com/32965-how-do-you-shut-down-the-internet-whole-country.html So basically, while the US could (theoretically) block all NK access to US based servers, they would have to get the countries that route NKs data in and out to shut them down, all at once. Plus somehow (as stated above) block satellite signals. So technically it IS possible, but the chances of it are pretty high.
From what I understand NK's internet connections come from China. If so, it would be a simple task for China to cut off the flow as they have done to their own people on several occasions.
Sort of. The people only have access to a intarnet called Kwangmyong and very few actually have access to the internet that we know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_%28network%29
And now Sony is releasing the movie and saying it never said it wasn't. There isn't enough "proof" on Planet Earth to convince me this wasn't a ploy by Sony to up their profits. North Korea, my ass.
Interesting proposition. I know less than nothing about NK's IT infrastructure or security, but do know they have only 25 million population, are relatively technologically backward, and doubt there's much infrastructure outside of a handful of large cities. Taking those things into consideration, this probably wouldn't be that hard to do with a few well-placed on the inside. Probably like shutting down the net in a single US state. This could also be disinformation or jawboning to create panic or problems in NK. Given that NK is nuclear, wouldn't be surprised at all that we have had programs in place to turn them off for some time. Also wouldn't be surprised if their lax security allows for good old fashioned hardware espionage as opposed to telecomm espionage. It's the price one pays for a totalitarian regime full of lots of desperately unhappy people. Turncoats are many and willing. Maybe Walter White, Jesse and Mike are driving around Pyongyang with a giant magnet in a van degaussing everything. Maybe we have secret technology that can shoot targeted, undetectable "EMP ball lightning." Maybe you don't have to take over a computer network at all to shut down the net, just compromise their electrical infrastructure enough to send spiky pulsed surges and brownouts that fry circuits or create EMP on their own grid. Lots of ways to skin a cat here.
Unknown if true or false, but during my drive home a radio station on XM was saying that NK only has 4 nodes connecting it to the Internet, where the US has something along the lines of 150,000. Shutting down 4 nodes, from the person's opinion as CEO of some tech company, was that it would be easy to do for the US since NK's access is so limited.
I figure all the NKoreans searching for pr0n probably killed their net. Let's face it - - If YOU lined in NKoreas and all you ever saw was that, you'd spend all day pr0n-surfing too!
There is a difference between blocking American access to North Korea and vice versa, and shutting down North Korean internet access.
