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This was also my takeaway. Sounds like a security nightmare if they are logging any data.

Well it isn't paranoia if North Korean impostors really are working in your company.

This article is just building justification for spying on your employees

I mean, if it's a company-owned laptop, they can do whatever the fuck they want with it. I bring a personal laptop to work for browsing and YouTube and whatnot, attached to a VPN.

Way too fucking much.

Given they've had 1800 recent infiltration attempts, I understand their suspicion.

Literally, catching North Koreans might have been the idea. It's become a big issue.

Probably one of the less shocking things they track.

Looking at my 300ms ping with 1500ms jitter....

(Yes, I counted the zeros)

When you look at the ISS pics of NK during the night, you get a sense of how bad it is for most of the population.

They’re also a security threat. Any opportunity to exfiltrate potentially profitable or leverageable data will be taken. I’d bet they’re used to sniff out vulnerabilities for ransomware attacks too. I definitley identify and agree with the healthy sympathy (I guess empathy if you’re in the states, our leader more than qualifies as an asswipe) for the citizens of North Korea

North Korea intentionally does this to get revenue for the state.

North Korea is the result of a genocide carried out by Japan during WW2 and the subsequent genocidal bombing campaign of the US during the Korean war. It was then shut off from the rest of the world as a punishment for successfully resisting US and pro Japanese occupation. What type of leadership and society do we expect to grow out of that? Like, honestly, what type of freedom can be given to people when a country is being cut off from the rest of the world by a large military superpower like the US?

I think people have learned a lot in recent years by looking at Gaza and the conditions the US and Israel have placed on the Palestinians there. I think people understand that Hamas and it's leadership are the inevitable result of that type of occupation. I hope people can learn from that and realize that there is not something inferior with a place like North Korea. It's structures of isolation and state control are the inevitable result of the history and current material conditions it faces.

There is a reason that support for Palestine liberation is nearly 100% among the non western world. Because they all see themselves in the Palestinians.

Do I like the leadership of North Korea? No. Do I like the leadership of Hamas? No. But I understand that they won't change until the threat and oppression of outside powers is stopped.

The west fucks with so many countries and then uses the current instability that the west caused as a reason for why they need to fuck with them more. Venezuela being the latest iteration.

I know that anybody who has consistent access to an internet connection in North Korea is almost certainly working for the benefit of the great leader and they aren’t actually seeing any money or benefit for themselves.

Eh, this doesn't sound like the job you would give someone in a prison camp. You're talking about people that you're allowing to interact and work regularly with foreigners outside the country. That does not sound like the type of position you trust to a political prisoner. That sounds like a position you put someone of high trust. It's probably a pretty cushy job as the standards of North Korea go. Sure beats scratching at dirt or working in some godawful arms factory. It's probably the type of job you need some good family connections in the Party in order to get. Sure, the government takes all the direct monetary benefit of the work, but that is just kindof how Communist systems work. I imagine the people working those jobs have some of the highest standards of living available to people that aren't senior party leadership.

These people are definitely not there just to make some money. And whatever money they make will be used to prop up the genocidal regime.

Oooor it's corporate propagande about their totalitarian surveillance system.

It’s not that, it’s that they are incredibly sophisticated in their techniques. I just had to sit through 90 minutes of training about how to spot fake applicants.