news North Korea just accidentally revealed it only has 28 websites

[deez007]

When North Korea accidentally opened up a server that contained domain name information for every site ending in the local country code .kp, it unwittingly revealed to the world that it has just 28 websites.

To put that in perspective, there are more than 16 million addresses that end with Germany's .de domain name, and roughly 10 million sites end in China's .cn domain name.

The leak was first reported by security engineer Matt Bryant, who posted the data on GitHub - a source code repository website.

The error reportedly occurred on 19 September 2016, when one of North Korea's top level nameservers was accidentally configured to allow global DNS zone transfers.

"This allows anyone who performs an AXFR (zone transfer) request to the country's ns2.kptc.kp nameserver to get a copy of the nation's top level DNS data," the site reports.

"This was detected by the TLDR Project - an effort to attempt zone transfers against all top level domain (TLD) nameservers every 2 hours and keep a running Github repo with the resulting data. This data gives us a better picture of North Korea's domains and top level DNS."

You can find the entire list of websites at GitHub, but let’s just say that since the information was posted to Reddit earlier today, the sites are struggling to stay online with the sudden influx of traffic.

Here’s a taste, from Reddit user Jabberminor:


Red Full Article Here:
http://www.sciencealert.com/north-korea-just-accidentally-revealed-it-only-has-28-websites

 

[S-B]

That's actually about 28 more than I expected.

 

[deez007]

lol.....They probably have an intranet that just gives everyone access to these 28 sites only.....

Would love to see what goes on behind those walls.... lol

 

[bingoo]

They don't need www .......

 

[freddy]

reminds me of 10-15 years ago when one after the other european countries lift the restrictions and we run from one landrush to the other. Most countries had only couple thousand Trademarks registered.
I do not want to turn this into a political discussion, but I think the political change in the US will not support a political change in North Korea. So .kp will probably stay very restricted....

 

[deez007]

reminds me of 10-15 years ago when one after the other european countries lift the restrictions and we run from one landrush to the other. Most countries had only couple thousand Trademarks registered.
I do not want to turn this into a political discussion, but I think the political change in the US will not support a political change in North Korea. So .kp will probably stay very restricted....

I think ol Kim wants it that way, so they can fully control all information that goes into the country. That's how he maintains control

 

[TDM]

At least they got options

 

[Micklepickle]

I wonder what will happen to the poor bastard who let that slip...somebody is having a bad day.

 

[Canadian1616]

That's actually about 28 more than I expected.

What you thought it was a third world country? lol

 

[Atta]

Wow.... even I've more than 28 domains. lol

 

[TDM]

... the sites are struggling to stay online with the sudden influx of traffic.

Maybe their server center is powered by
some idle smartphones operating as web server (Raid of course)

By that high amount of network traffic,
their mobile phone network is at risk too

This could really put them into a state of "nationwide restrictions" to communicate, connect
and get information from outside countries.


We should pledge for stopping that network attacks immediately,
so they regain freedom of speech and communication gets working again

(reminds me on those super power DDOS mirai attack some weeks ago)

 

[Joshh71390]

Why would this be a leak? They dont allow cameras in the country... what makes you think they let people start their own blogs?

 

[TDM]

(reminds me on those super power DDOS mirai attack some weeks ago)

But this time the attack is not unique to just some small and big websites.
It takes down a whole countries infrastructure.

 

[S-B]

I should buy Kim.blog and donate it to the almighty leader. I'd read it.

 

[john_karr]

Kim Jong Un have porn.com everybody else don't.