(…) the internet went down across the country. A wave of cyberattacks left all systems on hold for more than seven days. First, the main national websites failed, from the official news site to the booking page of the national airline. Then, the Asian state’s connections with the rest of the world were interrupted. Emails could not be sent or received; there was no connection to cloud services. The blockade was complete.
tl;dr: he DDoS’d all two of North Korea’s routers
What normal people hear: “He took down the routers with some crazy complicated algorithms. He’s Neo in the matrix.”
What IT professionals hear: “He hired a bunch of people to keep sending spam letters to their tiny mailboxes until they were so stuffed that they couldn’t receive any legitimate mail.”
What did you do today? Destroyed the internet of an authoritarian regime, you?
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Lady Gaga seemed to have a good time of it.
Unless things have changed, North Korea doesn’t have a whole lot by way of Internet. I think they used to have two Class C netblocks, 256 IP addresses each.
kagis.
They’re apparently up to four.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea
As of February 2023 North Korea has four IPv4 subnets, all announced by AS131279, named “Ryugyong-dong”.[52] The subnets are:[53]
175.45.176.0/24 (175.45.176.0–255)
175.45.177.0/24 (175.45.177.0-255)
175.45.178.0/24 (175.45.178.0–255)
175.45.179.0/24 (175.45.179.0–255)
The regime doesn’t like people having access to outside information.
„We and our 846 partners
Au revoir!
Thx op
Florida Man Crashed Internet in All of North Korea
