All i can say is paybacks is a bitch...
North Korea's internet is having serious problems
North Korea is having serious connectivity issues this morning,
North Korea Tech reports.
The country has extremely limited web infrastructure to begin with, but
reports from Dyn indicate the country's infrastructure has suffered a
series of major outages over the past 24 hours. As a result, anyone at a
North Korean IP would have found it nearly impossible to connect to the
web. "I haven’t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and
outages in KP before," said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis
at Dyn Research, told North Korea Tech. "Usually there are isolated
blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if
they are absorbing some sort of attack presently." The premise is
particularly relevant given
recent statements by President Obama, which promised a "proportional response" to the recent attack on Sony.
If the outage is in fact the result of a US attack, it would
represent a wholesale attack on a country's access to the internet,
setting a dangerous precedent of retaliation against targeted attacks.
Access to the web in North Korea is generally restricted to military or
government uses, so the downtime would have no effect on the average
citizen, but the precedent could be used to justify far more destructive
denial-of-service attacks. Still, it's just as plausible that the
downtime is the result of internal North Korean operations or simple
infrastructure problems. Until more evidence surfaces, it's difficult to
say for sure.
