Someone In North Korea Is Hosting a Facebook Clone (vice.com) 55
Reporter Jason Koebler shares: Someone in North Korea appears to have created a Facebook clone, according to an internet analytics company that traced the site's DNS to the notoriously isolated country. The social network is an off-the-shelf Facebook clone called dolphinPHP.
Dyn Analytics researcher Doug Madory said that "very few websites resolve to the North Korean address space, and this one does."From the screenshots in the article, the user interface, and other elements do look similar to that of Facebook.
Dyn Analytics researcher Doug Madory said that "very few websites resolve to the North Korean address space, and this one does."From the screenshots in the article, the user interface, and other elements do look similar to that of Facebook.
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Like that government doesn't have a history of violating the rights of its citizens.
By definition the North Korean government doesn't violate any of it's citizens' rights, ever, because their citizens have no rights to begin with.
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I don't, but Santa Claus does. The tooth-fairy? She's sitting on the fence, as usual.
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Who cares? It's not relevant to anyone. Why would you use a Facebook clone with virtually no users instead of actually using Facebook?
Of course we should care! It's not a Facebook clone. Facebook is obviously an inferior clone of Best Korea's social networking site.
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Maybe Dear Leader is just a little lonely. Maybe he joined Facebook and nobody wanted to friend him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Has someone already hacked it? (Score:3)
(referring to the ninja in the lower-left corner [starcon.net.kp])
Again? (Score:5, Funny)
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North Korea again? What next, a story about North Korea forcing people to upgrade to Windows 10?
Quit whining and absorb the propaganda citizen.
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At least N.K. wouldn't be so sneaky about Windows 10: they'd simply force it on you; no surprises or gimmicks.
MS: "The corner 'X' only means "cancel" on Tuesdays of odd months, blah blah blah..."
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At least N.K. wouldn't be so sneaky about Windows 10: they'd simply force it on you; no surprises or gimmicks.
MS: "The corner 'X' only means "cancel" on Tuesdays of odd months, blah blah blah..."
In some ways I would kind of prefer the brutal honesty of being told to upgrade at gunpoint in comparison to the sneaky shit that they've been pulling with Windows 10.
Plus you already expect North Korea to be trying to watch your every move and thought. It's not really something that you'd expect from an operating system that you thought you purchased. I'm starting to pine for the days when you owned the OS on your computer, and not the other way around.
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Story twist: Mass migration to North Korea to AVOID upgrades to Windows 10! Red Star OS FTW!!
they can save so many resources... (Score:4, Interesting)
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That would have very limited usefulness, only the wealthy elite in NK can afford to get online (and by "online" I mean "onto the national intranet." The Internet is only for a select few of the political elite and military). They already know they're being watched and to keep their heads down.
More likely, it'll be populated with millions of dummy accounts talking about how EVERYTHING IS AWESOME in North Korea. A digial Potemkin village.
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That would have very limited usefulness, only the wealthy elite in NK can afford to get online (and by "online" I mean "onto the national intranet." The Internet is only for a select few of the political elite and military). ...
Those are exactly the very people Kim would be most interested in spying on. He probably care much what your average peasant thinks, but he does need the support of the Army to remain in power.
"traced the DNS" (Score:1)
Because the domain name ending in .kp is too obvious, so they had to "trace" it. Did they use a GUI interface written in Visual Basic?
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FYI... (Score:2)
DolphinPHP and PHPdolphin are two different things.
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DolphinPHP and PHPdolphin are two different things.
Dolphins and PHP are very different things.
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Are they?
They are both adored by women and both kinda fishy.
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No, they're pretty much the same. Autistic kids love to play with them and everyone else thinks they're cute for a few tricks, but nobody could really think of any useful use for them.
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Let me guess... Another pooch-screwed summary?
http://phpdolphin.com/ [phpdolphin.com]
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So the one from Sicromoft is not legitimate?
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Glad that we don't have anything like that out here in the free world.
Is this where all the fake pages are coming from? (Score:3)
Every Facebook user has at some tie or another gotten that flurry of messages from people on their Friends list that they are getting requests to sign up again. Your Facebook age has been copied by a spammer who will then start selling magic diets and Florida real estate to everyone on your list. This scam is so common now that facebook has a special button for reporting it.
Surprising (Score:1)
What is more surprising to me. Is it that North Korea has citizens who have computers, or that it took them this long to realize they could use it to keep tabs on their citizens with their real names?
Kim Jong Un (Score:2)
already hacked (Score:2)
seriously, there is no way this hasn't already been hacked by multiple agencies. PHP isn't exactly known for it's security.
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Nor is any other commonly used language. PHP has a bad reputation because it's easy to get started with, so lots and lots of people write crappy software with it who wouldn't get their piece of shit to compile in other languages.
The security of your application still primarily depends on your application.
Probably more secure than the real Facebook (Score:2)
I repeat: It's probably more secure than the real Facebook.
In fact, I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
You Know It's North Korea (Score:2)
Why are we reading an article about a website (Score:2)
Why are we reading an article about a website instead of just going to the goddamn website to see for ourselves? This was typical of the off-line media about 20 years ago, "let me tell you about these crazy internet kids (but never provide any URL)", now even the internet news sites are doing it, what's the point of your article if I can't experience the source for myself? Do they really think I'm going to experience the world only through their description of it and be grateful about it? That may have been
Can only be better (Score:2)
And WTF didn't the summary link the facebook clone?