How can North Korean have top talented hackers? Aren’t their technology and information stuff generally outdated?

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I have frequently read news like “North Korean hackers” hacked into a company’s account and stole data, money, etc. In everyone’s impression though, North Korean is a country that has outdated techonology and poor economy development. Their citizens therefore should have bad education.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

No, generally everything you hear and think you know about them is a Western Imperialism propaganda Lie

Anonymous 0 Comments

North Korean propaganda might be stuck in the 90’s but it is 2023 in North Korea in reality just like it is here. North Korea has awful poverty and inequality for an industrialized nation, but it is one. I mean, they build nuclear weapons and ICBMs, so they literally have rocket scientists, and hacking isn’t rocket science.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’d say that your final sentence is a non sequitur. They can be a poor country and have great education. If someone has me in a chokehold, that doesn’t mean I have asthma.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Also I know it can be hard to believe but everything our government tells us is not the truth. We have seen time and time again that they distort the facts. Then we just disregard their talent for it. COINTELPRO is a good example. I’m not defending North Korea or their economy but it’s not as bad as they say.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

If someone is moderately intelligent and all they have to do is study IT and computer hacking for 12 hours a day they can get pretty good in just a few months.

Look at how the U.S. Air Force and Navy create decently good 19 year old cyber security experts with just about 4 months of training.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The enemy being both incredibly weak and incredibly strong at the same time is a key component of fascist propaganda. North Korea is both a nation which is full of outdated technology which can’t even fire a rocket outside of the border but also a country filled with elite hackers which could reliably guide a warhead across the world.

Anonymous 0 Comments

They have nukes and ICBMs. I’m sure they can buy a few hundred top of the line PC’s from their ally, China.

Anonymous 0 Comments

>Their citizens therefore should have bad education.

Not all of them. When I was in China studying chinese, there were a few north korean students in the same program as us (different section/level). They looked well-off enough and educated enough to be allowed to leave and study chinese abroad.