Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts

Most of the time the people who Anonymous give the stick to deserve it, but this type of petty schoolyard graffiti attack is questionable. Given the DPRK's sensitive ego, especially at this point in their international circus show when everyone's doing their best to diffuse the situation, injecting 'porn and kitten images' into their network is not helping the effort. At the very least, inject some propaganda or meaningful statement rather than self-glorifying "I wuz here" junk.<p>The DPRK is a horribly repressed, poverty ridden hell-hole where the only way out is death. I have nothing but pity for their every day suffering. A small part of me wants things like this to tip the balance of a short-lived war that ends in an open and free Korea. Why wait another 10 years where nothing's changed except their childish tantrums and nuclear capability?

I'm really tired of the people shouting "<i>THIS TIME</i> Anonymous took it too far!". It reminds me of an interview with Jon Stewart where he talked about people telling him (paraphrasing): "I really like your comedy, but then you talked about global warming and that's a really serious issue, so now I don't like you anymore".<p>Look. "Anonymous" is a like force of nature. It is simply the current collection of idiots with an axe to grind attacking whatever seems cool and sensationalist. Some of them have skills, some of them don't. Most of the time, what they do is childish. What they don't have is an agenda that you could <i>argue</i> with.<p>Yelling at them whenever they're on the part of your lawn that you care about makes about as much sense as yelling at the rain for making the part of your lawn wet that might rot from it. (Wow, that sure makes a contender for todays price for most quickly tortured metaphor.)<p>The reason why "Anonymous does X"? "Because X is possible". Nothing more and nothing less.

This made me smile.<p>I mean, sure, it's undeniably petty, and if it accomplishes anything then it'll be to inflame the DPRK's temper. Maybe that's the point; maybe highlighting the empty nature of their posturing with insults rather than listening to their threats with prudent concern is a way to bring them into line.<p>I don't really think that's the case, and I doubt the people who did this thought that either.<p>But this made me smile. It's irreverent, questionably legal and of dubious value. That's what Anonymous stands for, and I have to admit that I'm glad that they're there to pull pranks like this.

I'm really getting tired of 'Anonymous'. They are simply internet thugs under the guise of doing something important. But they don't do anything important, they actually create that fear the causes governments to enact stupid laws to prevent 'hackers'. So the result is an erosion of your freedoms.

It's just too bad the country's intranet is (supposedly) airgapped from the internet. So they can't actually deliver any propaganda to North Korean subjects without assistance from someone on the inside.

Can even Flickr keep open an account made by the North Korean govt? Isn't that sanctioned by the US Govt?

This is very immature and very irresponsible IMHO. Poking fun of NK on the internet is only going to aggravate the situation, because I'm <i>very</i> sure NK will end up interpreting it as "US doing", rather than some random individuals.

nice flickr uploads... <a href="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/04/flickraccount.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/...</a>

"They are promising to ‘inject’ porn and kitten images into the network as further proof of their level of access."<p>Lol? I guess?<p>Jokes aside, this seems - at least - irresponsible to me.

I hope this won't be what makes this whole thing blow up...

Go home, you are drunk!

They could at least upload something genuinely funny.

What if somebody gets beheaded for this?

I think this is extremely stupid. Usually I like anon plans, but this one is poking a tiger with a short stick.