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Grumpy hacker takes down North Korean internet to ‘prove a point’

JOEL BURGESS When not reviewing PCs for APC and writing our funny pages, Joel likes to ponder tech and how it’s used.

At the end of January and for a period of at least two weeks, all of North Korea’s 28 internet facing websites suffered numerous outages, often for extended periods of time report in February stated that it was actually the handiwork of an aggrieved US-based security researcher that was crippling the nation’s critical internet infrastructure from his home office.

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