A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant. Normally, a U.S.-based remote worker’s computer would send keystroke data within tens of milliseconds. This suspicious individual’s keyboard lag was “more than 110 milliseconds,” reports Bloomberg.
Amazon is commendably proactive in its pursuit of impostors, according to the source report. The news site talked with Amazon’s Chief Security Officer, Stephen Schmidt, about this fascinating new case of North Koreans trying to infiltrate U.S. organizations to raise hard currency for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and sometimes indulge in espionage and/or sabotage.
North Korea is the result of a genocide carried out by Japan during WW2 and the subsequent genocidal bombing campaign of the US during the Korean war. It was then shut off from the rest of the world as a punishment for successfully resisting US and pro Japanese occupation. What type of leadership and society do we expect to grow out of that? Like, honestly, what type of freedom can be given to people when a country is being cut off from the rest of the world by a large military superpower like the US?
I think people have learned a lot in recent years by looking at Gaza and the conditions the US and Israel have placed on the Palestinians there. I think people understand that Hamas and it’s leadership are the inevitable result of that type of occupation. I hope people can learn from that and realize that there is not something inferior with a place like North Korea. It’s structures of isolation and state control are the inevitable result of the history and current material conditions it faces.
There is a reason that support for Palestine liberation is nearly 100% among the non western world. Because they all see themselves in the Palestinians.
Do I like the leadership of North Korea? No. Do I like the leadership of Hamas? No. But I understand that they won’t change until the threat and oppression of outside powers is stopped.
The west fucks with so many countries and then uses the current instability that the west caused as a reason for why they need to fuck with them more. Venezuela being the latest iteration.
Are you the North Korean Amazon employee? Anyway, North Korea is a CCP vassal state, you invaded South Korea and isolated yourselves.
Given that you seem to know a lot about Korean history. Do you think the Jeju Massacre was justified?
Like, we learn about the Boston Massacre and cheer on American revolutionaries. But for some reason a militant response to an oppressive state filled with Japanese loyalist is considered bad when Koreans do it.
South Korea’s history is largely that of state oppression and a fascist dictatorship. What in your opinion was the reason the North attacked the South? Do you think events unfolded before that? Or did the North just attack because they wanted to prevent kpop?
Full support from China to return the entire Korean peninsula under their control as a vassal state.