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 In everyone’s impression though, North Korean is a country that has outdated techonology and poor economy development.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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I think it helps a lot that they can escape the consequences, and so get all the tries they want.
Like if a Greek citizen breaks into an American system and they figure who it is, there will be a legal process where America will talk to Greece, and the person will be arrested and possibly extradited. So at the first failure, it’s game over.
But if the same person is in NK instead, what’s the US going to do? NK isn’t going to cooperate and in fact the attacker is doing what NK wants. The US can’t apply diplomatic pressure because everyone on the US side already hates NK as it is, so you can’t really sanction them any more. And going in with weapons is a non-starter. So effectively nothing happens, and the NK hacker gets to try again, and again and again until they get what they want.
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