North Korea has been launching cyber attacks on South Korea. In this cyber terrorist attack, North Korea disrupted a firm's computer system that prevent customers from using their credit cards. I wonder what other kinds of cyber terrorist attacks can be done. Additionally, if a cyber terrorist attack really hinders South Korea, I am curious as to how South Korea would retaliate to this kind of situation.
Kevin Ho
Armel - 1-1:50 p.m. Fridays
I found this to be a curious article to read, especially after having read a previous article on this blog that accused the US and South Korea of violating human rights by not providing food aid to North Korea. This only goes to show how controversial the relationships of North Korea are with other countries.
ReplyDeleteAside from that, it is interesting to think of the great advantages that cyber terrorism presents to the state that is attacking. In current times, states are more and more dependent on technology to function rather than on other means, and so attacking the state's computer systems provides a non-messy way of disrupting the enemy without requiring the use of direct violence. It will be interesting to see whether the cyber attacks will continue to be developed or whether (hopefully) states like South Korea will find ways to prevent this cyber attacks from being carried out successfully.
Laura Zocchi- Ryan Maness Fridays 1pm
What I though was worthy of noting in this article was how officials stated it was a recently new type of cyber attack. If this group of cyber terrorist are targeting private firms, it may be true that there is now an ongoing effort to destroy the financial system of South Korea. As the article states, South Korea's private firms are referred to as "the backbone of capitalist society."
ReplyDeleteErnestina Perez
Armel 10am Fri
It's interesting to see how these cyber attacks are classified. Clearly this North Korean attack on South Korean banking doesn't cost lives like a bomb would, but it is a new way to disrupt commerce and hurt the economy. It can attack government infrastructure too, like what happened a few years back in Estonia. For now though it doesn't seem like there's any way to reprimand a country when they do this other than some sort of sanction or attacking back.
ReplyDeleteCullen Baldwin
Ryan@11
It interesting to hear that North Korea has the capability to cyber-attack South Korea. It is a shame that the general population probably has no access to computers or the internet. It makes me wonder, how sophisticated is the North Korean cyber network? If someone were to retaliate and attack them how badly would it hurt them?
ReplyDelete-Alexander Guevara
Ryan/ Friday 1:00 pm
at this point i do not feel south korea will have much retaliation. But this should point out truly how powerful North Korea is.
ReplyDeleteAdam Alvarado
Fri 9am
This article only strenghtens the negative relations North Korea has with
ReplyDeletethe outside world. It will be interesting to see how North Korea plans to
furthur develop itself with strong negative relations with countries. If
there was retaliation against North Korea I wonder what the effects would
be on NK. I wonder ijf this a statement by North Korea against the
outside.
Sarvateet Patel
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Discussion - Friday 11:00am