More on North Korea...

This week I found a blog on a website called The Next Web. Josh Horwitz is listed as the contact author on the blog and usually he posts on rather boring Asian technology. However, his most recent post from April 2nd concerns North Korea, which is always interesting. Apparently an anonymous hacker claims that he or she stole 15,000 passwords from users of Uriminzokkiri.com. Since North Korea has about five web sites on the internet this should be a big deal. The hacker has also claimed to have access to many sensitive servers. The hacker threatens to participate in an anonymous #opFreeKorea campaign in which they will take down numerous sites and destroy the internet infrastructure: "First we gonna wipe your data, then we gonna wide your badass dictatorship government." Clearly, the hacker wants to use the internet as a way to make North Korea democratic and nice to the rest of the world. While the blog addresses that there may be some credibility issues with what the hacker claims, he never addresses the real issue at hand: who really thinks that threatening a government with wiping data is going to make them all of a sudden decided to be less authoritarian. The blogger writes as if this is a completely normal cause and effect relationship.