North Korea is well known even to those not well immersed in world politics, the self-proclaimed reclusive and repressive communist regime appearing in the news weekly along with which country it threatens or where they are acting. Nuclear weapons tests.
Pyongyang specifically makes sure that the population does not know much about the outside world, Internet use is severely limited for the average person, and practically only sites approved and licensed by the state party operate. However, regardless of this, the Internet is extremely important for the state apparatus In North Korea Public administration was also modernized to the extent that became necessary.
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P4x Revenge
Which is why, just over two years ago, it must have been a particularly delicate blow when a hacker, operating under the username “P4x,” decided to paralyze the communist dictatorship’s entire internet network — and what’s more, he didn’t do it using his fellow hackers. , but alone at his home in Florida in January 2022. It has since been revealed that P4x is none other than 38-year-old Colombian-American cybersecurity entrepreneur, Alejandro Cáceres, who… WiredAccording to him, he was repeatedly targeted by North Korean cyber activity, which wanted to take revenge on him – and what revenge it turned out to be!
In fact, P4x spent days and hours monitoring every known North Korean website Pirate attack It was launched and kept offline for a week. He told Wired magazine in April that he felt at the time that it was the right thing to do, because North Korea's party-state had to see that not everyone would escape from them and that there were those “showing the whiteness of the country.” Their teeth UniladI noticed that Cáceres explained in more detail what this experience was like for him during a Q&A on Reddit.
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In the first round, he was of course asked the most obvious question: How difficult would it be to hack a North Korean network? His answer to this was particularly interesting:
“Honestly, this is what I get asked the most, but I can't really say it haha. I've always said before that it wasn't that bad, but when I say it, a lot of people react to it like 'it's okay, but you gained my knowledge In…, so of course it’s not that difficult.”
consequences
Another very interesting question that P4x received was what he felt would be the most likely consequences of his actions – and in this regard, he said that he had not yet faced any negative consequences in relation to the incident. As he said, he believed that people really liked it, even though he himself expected that there would be more serious consequences for him.
He also revealed that the most dangerous thing that happened to him was that intelligence agents interrogated him: they did not want to hold him accountable either, but were curious about how to do it. He added that there was an “X-Files” style to the whole situation, but it was partly a normal, average encounter between him and the secret agents, so he asserted that there was a “very strange dissonance” to the whole situation.
