tl;dr: he DDoS'd all two of North Korea's routers
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2024
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What normal people hear: "He took down the routers with some crazy complicated algorithms. He's Neo in the matrix."
What IT professionals hear: "He hired a bunch of people to keep sending spam letters to their tiny mailboxes until they were so stuffed that they couldn't receive any legitimate mail."
What did you do today? Destroyed the internet of an authoritarian regime, you?
Unless things have changed, North Korea doesn't have a whole lot by way of Internet. I think they used to have two Class C netblocks, 256 IP addresses each.
kagis.
They're apparently up to four.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea
As of February 2023 North Korea has four IPv4 subnets, all announced by AS131279, named "Ryugyong-dong".[52] The subnets are:[53]
175.45.176.0/24 (175.45.176.0–255)
175.45.177.0/24 (175.45.177.0-255)
175.45.178.0/24 (175.45.178.0–255)
175.45.179.0/24 (175.45.179.0–255)
The regime doesn't like people having access to outside information.
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