North Korea accidentally opens their internet to The Internet.

I don't know how people in north korea live their life with this closed internet and no freedom.

On the other hand, someone has got to have managed to get onto the global internet from north korea, because we had the red star leaks a while ago.
 
I can't even believe they have access to only 28 websites. At least other Communist nations like Cuba and China have access to international websites.
 
It's a bit opening for North Korea with smallest number of open spots due to leakage or error in their control. One should always careful where to put some sensitive info.
 
Actually, it's not that they only have access to those websites, or that these are somehow "secret". NK's citizens can only access a small Intranet that is managed and controlled by the Government, and which is the true secret here (nobody has ever seen it). Those 28 sites are the ones on the rest-of-the-world Internet, the ones that are supposed to be seen by foreigners (hence why many have shoddy English translations available). The fascinating thing about this leak is seeing a full list of all them together... and realising that there are so few, and so bad.
 
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colours said:
I find it really hard to wrap my head around how the citizens of North Korea even live their day-to-day lives. A world with no/restricted interent and living under a dictatorship sounds really horrible. x.x
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It is really horrible. So horrible that I feel like it's a human rights violation. But then again NK probably commits those violations on a day to day basis; and unfortunately the law (Consensus) of the planet has dictated that we shall leave them alone.

It's sad to see people living this way but at the same time I think that if they were doing that badly off; they wouldn't be able to hide under China's skirt either. I doubt that NK can sustain itself and it most likely gets tons of aid from anyone it calls an ally. So NK can only exist because it stands as a guard to other countries and provides a buffer. Because it's essentially China's little kid; we can't spank it. China doesn't believe in that sort of discipline for it. We can only appeal to them and ask them to help us keep little NK in it's borders and from hitting others out of greed or spite, and we can't do much if all NK does is throw a little hissy fit; since China won't do anything about that. Fortunately for US, China has somewhat matured as a mother and will sometimes step in and quietly address their child and keep them in line. They'd rather not risk an all out fight with the rest of the world either...but they won't allow anyone else to touch or discipline them. Like any mother; they are protective.

So we can't step in and teach NK anything we'd like to share with them, to make them prosper or improve in demeanor. China isnt gonna let anyone bully NK out of communism and dictatorships either; even though there are better ways to do things. It does suck that NK itself also chooses to close itself off from the rest of the world too. If they perhaps had internet access; perhaps we could eventually teach it better. But it stubbornly refuses and puts up a Great Firewall like it's mother does to screen out anything it doesn't want to see or hear. Thus they live in basically a modern stone age.

Ivysaur said:
Actually, it's not that they only have access to those websites, or that these are somehow "secret". NK's citizens can only access a small Intranet that is managed and controlled by the Government, and which is the true secret here (nobody has ever seen it). Those 28 sites are the ones on the rest-of-the-world Internet, the ones that are supposed to be seen by foreigners (hence why many have shoddy English translations available). The fascinating thing about this leak is seeing a full list of all them together... and realising that there are so few, and so bad.
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Undoubtedly I think one could probably unleash a reasonably modern worm onto their intranet and I can imagine it would do untold amounts of damage if it could infect any PC with outside internet access. But that wouldn't help matters; it would only hurt them. I do think it would be really neat though if somehow you could get TOR relays set up inside. I think it might be useful if one could perhaps some day punch a secret hole into their intranet and set up a VPN going in there and unleash a few crawlers to find and download things.

I think it'd be really interesting to see what people can access at any level and even what access controls they do have deployed. I do hope that at some point that more things can and do leak out of NK. Hopefully something odious enough will leak out that even "Mommy China" can't ignore and has to act upon to keep peace.
 
...Well, Noa told me that not having tv and internet is probably the least of North Korean citizen's worries... it's still horrible they have to live like that, though? Wow.
 
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