Quote:The one thing North Korea actually does well is hacking.  They have an entire government agency dedicated to it, so don't underestimate their ability to pull something like this off.  Look at the mess they created going after Sony.

Except that, despite the US government's insistence that North Korea hacked Sony, lots of computer experts don't think that Kim Jong-Un had much of anything to do with it. The timing was a convenient coincidence for the US government, which loves nothing more than a chance to make North Korea the bad guy, but the evidence generally points to an internal hack on Sony's end. There's an interesting article on it here, which links to other equally interesting, more technical articles on the topic:

 

http://gawker.com/a-lot-of-smart-people-...1672899940

 

Without dragging this into the territory of the political forum, all I'll say is that some elements within the US government love it when cyber threats are attributed to North Korea, because it allows them to shift focus away from the much more nefarious Internet activity carried out by the US government itself here at home.

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