is the idea that the defendants pursued unfair and illegal business practices, promoting their services, while a law abiding service got swept behind? anyone know what the precedent is for this sort of thing?
What kind of computer and computer education resources are there in North Korea? It's hard to imagine them pulling this off without some outside help. It's also hard to imagine anyone except individuals or small collectives would help North Korea pull this off at this time.
> What kind of computer and computer education resources are there in North Korea?
> It's hard to imagine them pulling this off without some outside help.
There's plenty of free resources online: recordings from security conferences posted on video sharing sites (like Youtube); infosec mailing lists; published hacks and so on. Plus hacking is as much a state of mind as it is an education. To pull off attacks like those you'd need individuals who are adept finding weaknesses for themselves rather than just following guides that they've been taught.
> It's also hard to imagine anyone except individuals or small collectives would help North Korea
> pull this off at this time.
From what I've read, they do have some military-governed teams of hackers. If the attacks originated from North Korea, then it would have been a military operation.
No, they were aimed but it was a matter of trial and error. To get the data about where they'd landed, some had radio transmitters. They sent a message back to armourers in France (I assume some were deliberately non-explosive).
Meanwhile German agents in England were also observing the success or failure of the V2s, and in particular where they'd landed.
However, in an effort to deceive the Germans, the British started reporting the correct time of successful attacks, while mentioning an incorrect location.
Moreover, a double agent called Eddie Chapman also fed false information back to the Germans.
As a result, the aimers never really got a grip on ranging accurately. The bombs started landing to the south east of London.
There's considerably more detail about this in Most Secret War by R V Jones, who was involved in all sorts of ruses to confuse the enemy. Well worth a read.
Eddie Chapman (Agent ZigZag) was played by Christopher Plummer in the film Triple Cross. It seems to be on YouTube.
does that book discuss whether / how the misinformation was used to select the south east? i suspect that was a poorer area of london and i vaguely remember some kind of scandal about the relative suffering of various parts of london and class, etc. so i wonder to what extent the south east was chosen (by the british) as a target?
Without asking the folks aiming them we can never be sure, but the results of the survey of South London detonations mentioned in the article was shockingly close to the Poisson distribution. So it seems likely.
The question is, are their users children or adults? I have seen it a lot of times that children are being ripped off with mobile games. They don't really know how much they are spending.
All the teams are definitely pretty independent and each person is responsible for a lot. There's lots of swapping around between the teams depending on where the talent is needed too. (source: I worked for them over the summer)
