North Korean internet connections began experiencing trouble Friday, and it got progressively worse over 24 hours, until finally every single IP address in the nation went down, effectively cutting the nation’s already limited addresses from the Internet entirely. They were down for part of the afternoon, but were up again by Monday evening.
North Korea isn’t talking, but experts say what happened is consistent with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, except on a nationwide scale.
That their Internet began experiencing problems at the same time as the US began threatening them is immediately suspect, and the White House is officially refusing to comment on the incident.
If confirmed as a US attack, it would be the first time the US has knocked another nation entirely off the Internet through hostile action, though given how small North Korea’s Internet presence is, it isn’t a huge feat.
Step 1: Declare that you have been attacked, and that the source of the attack is a nation state in the "axis of evil." (e.g. – Iraq, by anthrax)
Step 2: Use the phrase "act of war" and dwell on the perfidiousness of the dictator (e.g. – Saddam) while stating that it's pretty much obvious he is behind it.
Step 3: Once the population is in an excited state and the story is cooking all over the media, begin to back off a little and indicate you realize he probably wasn't behind it, that it very well might be domestic (e.g. anthrax)
Step 4: Mess with the other country in some way in response to your citizens' ire over how they were attacked, so they have to retaliate or they will lose their honor (e.g. make very lame wmd inspections and accuse the other country of hiding things like bioterror labs all over their god-forsaken primitive country; if it is NK, pretend they have hackers so clever they even know about water cooler gossip at Sony)
Step 5: Make war on the other country by bombing them or taking out their internet, with a view to regime change. What other country can blame you? After all, you were attacked.
I'm sure the US whitehouse fails to fathom how lame it looks over this.
Sounds like you're assuming they care. They don't. They're creating their own reality.
What a mystery! The first known national cyber-attack was by the US (and Israel) upon the uranium enrichment facilities of Iran, resulting in substantial destruction of Iranian enrichment equipment — and the criminal prosecution by the US Government of those suspected of leaking news of the illegal US cyber-attack on Iran. Now, we have our wonderfully honest Government "remaining silent" on another cyber-attack on another member of the "axis of evil" — North Korea — after having just boasting publically that there would be a response, at a time and place chosen by our Government. Gee, I wonder who could possibly be responsible for the second cyber-attack in history, by one nation against another nation? Stay tuned, I'm sure our mainstream media will be getting to the bottom of this mystery.
"…mainstream media will be getting to the bottom of this mystery."
They're waiting for the memo…but the memo-gnome and kool-ade mixers are on vacation and won't be back until after the New Year festivities.