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North Korea hacks Sony: USA takes down their entire Internet Connection

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olutee:
     "Internet connectivity between North Korea and the outside world is currently suffering one of its worst outages in recent memory, suggesting that the country may be enduring a mass cyber attack a few days after President Obama warned the US would launch a "proportional response" to North Korea's hack against Sony

    North Korea, which has four official networks connecting the country to the Internet -- all of which route through China -- began experiencing intermittent problems yesterday and today went completely black, according to Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research in Hanover, New Hampshire." Bloomberg reports.

olutee:
There were reports Tuesday that North Korea's Internet was down, the disruption coming amid a growing war of words between the United States and North Korea over a cyberattack on Sony Pictures. Do you think the United States disabled North Korea's Internet in retaliation for the Sony hack?

Chinoy: I'm not convinced that the U.S. government was behind the outage of the North Korean Internet.

The issue though is not whether it was or it wasn't, the issue is what the North Koreans think it was. c

And I think it's safe to assume, unless they themselves took their system offline for their own security -- which is not impossible -- they'll be looking to respond.

And if the U.S. government actually took down their Internet, that has its own implications.

Because if the United States is officially engaging in cyberattacks then it implies they can do it to us, and everybody else can do it to everybody else.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/23/world/asia/north-korea-cyber-conflict-chinoy-qa/

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