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resolutebat on June 19, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Int...

Only the lines in/out. NK has their own intranet which is completely separate from the global internet, which was presumably entirely unaffected by this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)

voidUpdate on June 19, 2024 | [–]

So not really much effect on the system then, overall

doublerabbit on June 19, 2024 | [–]

> North Koreans often find it more convenient to access sites by their IP address rather than by domain name using Latin characters

Don't blame them. Enom fee's are extortionate. And when DNS breaks it still works.

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