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I think this is extremely stupid. Usually I like anon plans, but this one is poking a tiger with a short stick.

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Poking a tiger with a short stick is extremly dangerous - what danger do you see in Anon's actions?

I assume he's concerned about the possibility of some kind of retaliation from North Korea.

Whatever NK's plans are, I think they are very unlikely to be affected by anything like this.

NK could interpret it as US actions rather than Anonymous.

My first thought was "these are US or SK actions". On further thought it doesn't seem likely, but still, everyone can hide behind the Anonymous flag for plausible denyability.

For what reason should US or SK do such a thing. If they are capable of hacking NK they don't need to deny that.

One reason I can think of would be because it's "not done" in international diplomacy to publicly admit of hacking. I don't think any country ever openly admitted to building Stuxnet and other "cyberwar" botnets either. Or maybe they did eventually (not sure), but only after very long suspicions. They could still tell NK of it privately, threaten them in an indirect way.

Note that I'm not saying they did this, or have good reason to. It's just that I'm a bit suspicious of anything Anonymous related after the Sabu/Lulzsec story, especially when it relates to propaganda like this.

That's besides the point, it's about political spin. NK has a history singling out USA and SK for actions that sometimes aren't even related to that country at all.

Good, I hope the tension escalates in a war, it would be the best solution for the NK situation.

100,000s of people dying (or more!) is not the best solution.

It is, because the alternative is worse. There are more that 100,000 prisoners in NK living in horrible conditions. And of those who are not in prison, most have miserable standard of living.

Most people have a miserable standard of living by our extremely sheltered standards.

There is very little precedent for war being the 'right' answer to any problem.

You think North Korea will bomb the internets?

They might launch some missiles at South Korea, killing a few hundred people, then triggering a brief but deadly war that results in a few more thousand people dead on the "good" side and hundreds of thousands of dead on the NK side.

I'd hate to be the script kiddie who has to live with the knowledge that they did something that caused hundreds of thousands of people to die "for the lolz".

I really don't believe they will start a war because some script kiddie hacked their website.

It is North Korea. They are claiming to be attacking the US already!...

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