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Analysis of North Korea's Internet Traffic Shows a Nation Run Like a Criminal Syndicate
Recorded Future has published a series of analyses on North Korea's most senior leadership's use of the internet. As the last report of the series, it demonstrates how adaptable this leadership has become in both using and monetizing its use of the internet.
The leadership's pattern of global internet usage has shifted. A year ago, it peaked at the weekends, primarily for online gaming and video streaming. Over the last year, weekday usage has increased while weekend use has decreased (although weekend use is still primarily for gaming and streaming). Recorded Future does not know why this shift has occurred, but suggests that it is indicative of the global internet becoming a greater part of the leaders' every day work.
Concurrent with this pattern change has been the construction of North Korea's new Internet Communications Bureau headquarters in Pyongyang. The combination of changing usage patterns and the completion of this building could, suggests Recorded Future, "signify a professionalization of internet use across North Korea's most senior leadership. This would mean that these leaders utilize the internet to a greater extent as part of their jobs, as opposed to for their own entertainment."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @09:24AM (1 child)
If you use the internet for anything else than porn and games you're a dirty criminal. At least this is the impression I'm left with having read the fine summary.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:52PM
That was pretty much my impression from reading TFA as well. It talks about North Korea cryptocurrency raids, then goes on to correlate traffic to where North Koreans are living or studying, but internet traffic is disproportionate to the amount living/working in China and Russia, and that 12 to 16 hour working periods are common (how they ensure that it is the same person online and not a different person taking over the work at the same system is not stated). It's soup for the city from a handful of oysters. Not the least of which is that they don't establish how a criminal syndicate runs its internet operations at all - just equates North Korea to that by fiat.
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