So far nothing has compared to the 9+ hour Internet outage North Korea experienced on Monday, but the country has lost its connections twice today as well, including about a half hour stretch this morning.
There is considerable speculation that the Internet outages are US ‘retaliation’ for the Sony hack, though the US is making a big point of refusing to comment on the matter one way or another.
Experts said the Monday downing appeared to be a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, though it is unclear if today’s are related or simply more fallout from the damage done by the first one.
North Korea’s Internet access is almost non-existent to begin with, essentially 1024 IP addresses routed through China’s Unicom. North Korea’s state media uses foreign servers, which appear not to be effected.
Let us wallow in our stupor? — What has this world come to?
Since the Korean War and for over 60 years, our Empire building and criminal behavior has caused the laboring-class lower half of North Korea to exist in an unending state of starvation, causing the death of millions with most of our victims being children who never knew a day without the unbearable pain of hunger.
But, in reality and all honesty, it’s not our burden to end the greed and it’s not our guilt that we will never have the will to end an Empire expansion that must in the end cause us and our Empire to expire in a convulsion.
For as everyone knows full well, be it give a child unlimited candy or an adult unlimited freedom to plunder and enslave, addicted to greed is all of human nature and without responsible adults to take corrective action we all would surely die in our stupor.
So, exactly what is the international community waiting for? Such uncaring, indifferent, sadistic and unconscionable behavior on their part, when are they going to do for us, what we hope upon hope in our hearts, we would for such a negative addiction do for them.
I guess you were workin' on something deep there, but damned if I can figure out what it is. My guess is you're wanting some kind of intervention from someone to save you? To save NK? To destroy the West? To save the West? but with loads of guilt and shame attached somehow for doing so? or for not doing so? And actually this: "give a child unlimited candy or an adult unlimited freedom" thing with the stupor is a load of hooey. It's just the kind of thing judgmental elders say in a vain attempt to manipulate young whippersnappers.