North Korea is currently suffering one of its worst network outages in history. This is coming just days after President Barack Obama promised a proportional response to the Sony hacks. The FBI accused North Korea for the Sony hacks (which you can read all about here) and the country is not facing an Internet outage said to be out of the ordinary, as first reported by North Korea Tech. According to the research firm, North Korea’s Internet grew steadily worse beginning Sunday night, and then went completely offline Monday morning.
In a Friday media conference, Obama promised a response “at a place and time and manner that we choose,” and he declined to rule out military force or economic penalties.
Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince suggested that North Korea’s loss of Internet may not necessarily be the result of U.S. action. In fact, he told the Journal, the country could have shut off its own Internet to assert control over its population or guard against cyberattacks. China—which provides Internet to the embattled nation—also could have taken North Korea offline in response to American pressure, he said.
Source: CNBC
