Tuesday 20 September 2016
North Korea is the most repressive, secretive state in the world. There’s no free press, no independent media, and scarce few people have access to the Internet. It’s about as close as you can get to George Orwell’s Airstrip One. One brilliant illustration of this is found in North Korea’s DNS records. A configuration error allowed researchers to map the entire North Korean externally-facing Internet (North Korea has a separate version of the Internet that can only be accessed within the country). It turns out that there are just twenty eight domain names using the .KP top level domain (TLD). Twenty. Eight.…
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