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Kim Jong-il: an Internet expert

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Remember how I was laughing at the thought of North Korea launching a cyber-attack? That was before I found out reclusive leader Kim Jong-il is an Internet expert. Maybe the North Korean equivalent to Vint Cerf or something, for all I know.

Anyway, could today’s brief denial of service attack on Twitter be the work of Dear Leader? Makes me wonder. A denial of service attack doesn’t need much initial bandwidth to get started, provided there’s a large farm of zombie hosts from which to attack.