Entries Tagged as 'Analysis'

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Silence is Golden

The Daily NK notes North Korea’s unusual silence following accusations of the July 4th cyberattacks:
Generally, whenever the South Korean government so much as mentions the word “North,” North Korea instantly produces a volley of aggressive claims about the possibility of military catastrophe. Pyongyang’s silence in the face of the NIS designation is somewhat unprecedented.
While certainly [...]

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Why the North Didn’t* Do It

(*) This post is designed to stimulate debate, not make a definitive claim.  The lost side of this debate, I contend this: absent any technical data, a North Korean cyberattack is actually less likely than most mainstream media and defense establishment presume.

The press loves a good villain, and so the story seems to make intuitive [...]