Actual engineer:
Just a shower thought: isn't it a missed business opportunity for recruiters from in particular other countries (but also the USA) to set up a similar "well-funded interview (cheating?) pipeline"?
There’s probably even recorded interviews out there with the candidates as data
Of course I have never seen this with my own eye, but this friend is the original CTO of Deepin Linux so I believe him. I don’t get the military uniform part though, as it scares away potential employers. Maybe this is one of the requirements of the Chinese government.
But really, I wish I could get into such an education. I myself lacks discipline to do so.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-everyday-americ...
How much worse is the crime because of North Korea? Would it be markedly different for Russia/Iran vs a formerly close ally like Canada.
Probably exactly the same crimes. Germans without the legal status to work in the US would probably be able to get bank accounts so the money laundering would probably just not be necessary.
China has literally millions (tens of millions?) of hardworking engineers that do their job and get a paycheck
NK has zero of these people. They are basically a sovereign crime syndicate. They get hired and then extort or exfiltrate from their employers.
You might be exposed to some of the rampant anti-Chinese propaganda.
However, this is 110% the opposite for China and the Chinese government. They are not permissible as the bad guy. So much so that it scuttled a Hollywood reboot of an action movie a decade ago (Red Dawn). Hollywood is on a short leash, but don't be fooled into thinking the capitulation ends there. Even our own politicians know better. If one were generous (I'm not inclined towards generosity) one might wonder if the politicians know that our economy is hostage to the CCP and do not wish to see us harmed, but the more likely explanation is that there's soft corruption that persuades them to sell us down the river.
The Chinese have worked hard, tirelessly even, for more than half a century, to make it very difficult to say anything bad about them without repercussions, even in countries far outside China's obvious sphere of influence. North Korea needs to invest in global propaganda efforts if it wishes to get off the jerkwar list...
China's government fucking sucks.
There, that wasn't so hard, was it?
This is nonsense. China's peak of influence over America has passed, due in part to some of that past heavyhandedness.
If you're in a job that's exposed to China, sure, you should be careful. Same way if you're in a job that's exposed to a prominent individual, you probably shouldn't shit talk them in public.
There are very valid reasons to oppose the Chinese government, but it should NOT sink into jingoism or red scare style BS.
A globalized world like ours today makes it incredibly difficult to be heavy handed the same manner the USSR was back in the day.
(Doesn't mean organs like the UFWD aren't active, but their capabilities are vastly overstated for the sake of jingoism - and I'm saying this as someone who carries a burner and uses non-American ID at GITEX)
The NK thing is a fundamentally different scenario: you have people you're not allowed to hire lying to you and stealing identities to get hired. That's an obvious problem in itself, and the fact that it's orchestrated by the NK government to benefit the regime is only making it worse.
There are other parties that probably do the same, but NK is the industry leader, so to speak.
I'd be ok with going after traitors if it were actually traitors to the American people rather than the global status quo. But I guess that's part of living in a late stage empire.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-everyday-americ...
You don't need to find a causal relation to treason specifically to understand. They may not even be aware of what they are involved in.
This is why this line of argumentation is at once true and will never be persuasive: the poverty is the point of our economic system. That’s what they’re protecting. If Americans were all relatively equal, the economic royalists would have no throne to sit on.
You've got to be kidding me.
America has a Gini coefficient of about .42 [1]. The last time North Korea's was estimated, it was around .82. To to put that in perspective, the inequality gap between America and North Korea is well more than double that between America and the Netherlands.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_in... 2023
Here’s an accessible resource: https://blowback.show/
Did you really think anticommunism disappeared from American elites?
To learn that we went to war with North Korea because it's communist? No shit. We also did that with Russia, China, Vietnam and a good fraction of current NATO members, trade partners and allies.
> Did you really think anticommunism disappeared from American elites?
Elites? Most Americans have unfavourable views of communism [1].
But you didn't say communism. You said socialism. And it's a bit ridiculous to argue (a) North Korea is run as a socialist economy or (b) that we have a beef with Pyongyang, today, because of how it runs its economy.
[1] https://victimsofcommunism.org/annual-poll/2020-annual-poll/
I’m citing the YouGov poll they commissioned, but fair enough.
Or the same leader doesn’t unilaterally raise tarrffs, exempt companies that bow to him and tell other companies not to pass cost increases on to customers.
That doesn’t seem like the free market to me.
What is happening politically is a reflection of this concentration of power that naturally accumulated due to the dynamics of capitalism (and as they rose they influence the state to enable further concentration, also part of the natural life of actually existing capitalism).
In new markets, capitalism looks pretty good and the competition drives good deals for consumers and the barriers to entry are low. This devolves over time into a highly concentrated market with high barriers to entry. We've seen this story in our industry time and time again. Unfortunately, the new market state is transient, and the concentrated part is steady state. This is why people are always looking for new market opportunities.
And by “our” industry I assume you mean tech.
Which one of the tech companies is a “monopoly”?
There is nothing I can use Google for that I can’t use another company for and with Google Search, it isn’t even the best.
Amazon? I can order most things from other places or go into a physical store.
Apple? I can buy one of hundreds of different phones or computers
Microsoft? My life is completely Microsoft free.
America has its wealth more evenly divided than North Korea does. America has never been communist. (And North Korea doesn't organise its economy according to Marxist-Lenninist principles other than running a command economy.)
>In the 1970s the DPRK was economically outpacing the south
-- according to statistics published by the DPRK.
They have no reason to respect the American social contract because so far it's gotten them nothing, and in many cases like this, they are entirely unfamiliar with the stakes of the game as they stand now, as they are more concerned with the basic realities of their next meal and warmth. Her great move from the midwest(well I guess that used to be the west right) to the southwest indicates that not only was she likely adrift as many people are now, but open to anything that would keep her normed to the people she saw on her screens.
same reason FBI agents generally paid paid alright, and why federal government clearances take a strongly negative view of bankruptcy and poor financial management.
now it's writ-large across the population. yet more improvements brought to you by technology.
> Not that we need to re-litigate that homelessness as a national security issue
Without this it's easy to think that this was just a bad actor we could have caught, instead of just a symptom of a deeper issue not being addressed
I'd be more surprised if there isn't a causal link between homelessness and making bad choices - I don't think it's really disputed that there's a causal link between homelessness and crime in general.
The root cause was desperation, not greed.
Doesn't change the effects of the action. And should be more or less legally irrelevant. But it does impact, in my view, the moral judgement they deserve.
I suppose, if moral judgements and legality have no relation, sure. But what does that imply.
Something akin to moral hazard [1].
I should also clarify that I meant legally irrelevant to conviction. It's absolutely relevant to sentencing.
Did she lift herself out of homelessness with this job? Or was she just homeless at one point in the past?
>Christina Chapman: I'm classified as homeless in Minnesota. I live in a travel trailer. I don't have running water. I don't have a working bathroom, and now I don't have heat.
>Annie Minoff: But Chapman's situation was about to turn around. In fact, the answer to her financial troubles had arrived just a few months before she posted that video in the form of a social media message.
>Robert McMillan: The message comes via LinkedIn. And it says, we're a foreign company looking for a US representative. That's really all we know about the message.
> Trump orders crackdown on homeless encampments nationwide
He went another way, it’s almost comical if it weren’t so sad.
Alternatively I would be amenable to putting them in, say, national parks, where they are given a tent and free food so they can scream all day there. Maybe it would be far enough away from transport that drug dealers wouldn’t bother to drive out there. But not in a major metropolis where normal people need to live and work. It’s absurd
> President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order urging cities and states to clear homeless encampments and move people into treatment centers
Well, no, it says it's to help them. Important difference.
Like saying you're restoring free speech but then personally calling up Rupert Murdoch to kill a news story. Or saying you're bringing in radical transparency to the HHS, but then cancelling all public notice and comment periods on new health policies. Or saying you're a fiscal hawk but consistently voting for bigger deficits. You get it.
They have zero intention of helping them. These things are literally being built before your eyes. It was brown people last month and it’s homeless people this month… it’s not going to stop unless they are physically stopped.
they've given ICE more money than the FBI+DEA, or more than the entire Russian military.
"Person with no prospects takes too-good-to-be-true job offer that turns out to be helping do crime."
The specific details (homeless vs living with parents in a trailer park vs barely affording something etc) aren't really relevant. Any of those are roughly the same: someone in a shitty situation isn't careful enough when trying to get out of that situation.
The general situation (no prospects) is aiui fairly typical. Which makes it not news[1], and therefore not much of an omission at all much less a critical one.
[1] "Dog bites man" is not news; "man bites dog" is news.
Whether it is "news" or not affects whether you choose to report on the story. It is not relevant to the context you provide when you report on in the content of said story.
> "Dog bites man" is not news; "man bites dog" is news.
That's a headline, not the content. If a man ended up in jail because his hand was bloody, and you decide to report on it, it absolutely behooves you to mention that it was because a dog bit him, vs. letting readers wonder if he's some sort of criminal.
I wonder if she fully knew how much trouble she could get in and just thought she wouldn't get caught. Or, it was more of a "I am just helping out these nice fellers get jobs. No big deal, I am not bothering anyone" case.
예 I mean yes.
A) remote desktop software such as anydesk
Or
B) a kvm over IP device providing a virtual video, keyboard and mouse session to a remote user over html5/tls1.3
If it's option (b), unless this laptop farm operator had in their possession some special DPRK provided unit that identifies its USB manufacturer ID and device ID as something innocuous, this is a problem.
People are not using sufficiently tight endpoint security policies and logging to identify USB devices that identify themselves as kvm over IP bridges. Or just permit listing a certain set of allowed external USB keyboards and mice (company provided).
Change device id to the whitelisted ones.
Then use a hdmi to usb video capture and grab frames from that on the same pico.
That's something very easy to do.
quick cost is 14E, a pico (7E) plus usb to uvc (~7E)
And it doesn't have to be some special fancy device. Lots of open source KVM platforms out there let you choose whatever device ID appears for your keyboard and mouse. Here's how to make your PiKVM show up as whatever monitor, keyboard, mouse, cdrom, flash drive, whatever you want.
Unless you're not allowing anyone to use any kind of external monitor and you're not letting anyone use pretty generic and common external keyboard and mice your endpoint software is going to be pretty useless. Even if you give them a mouse and keyboard, all they have to do is tell the remote attackers "its a Logitech MK200 keyboard and mouse" and they can make the PiKVM look like a MK200 keyboard and mouse. Same if you try to limit it to only some specific monitor. EDID data can be easily faked, there's no cryptographic validation of USB device IDs or monitor EDID data at all.
valbaca•1d ago
She's literally helping North Korea's government siphon money from American companies.
philipkglass•1d ago
https://theweek.com/articles/869173/brief-history-treason-un...
The history of actual treason, in the sense of federal criminal prosecutions for the concept defined in the Constitution and adopted almost immediately as a federal offense, is remarkably short. Since the ratification of the Constitution in 1789, there have been only 40 federal treason cases, and far fewer convictions. (John Adams secured the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts in part because the constitutional definition of treason was too narrow.) Even the most famous "traitors" in American history were not technically guilty of treason. Benedict Arnold might plausibly have argued that it was those on the side he betrayed who were guilty of treason; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were actually convicted of conspiracy to engage in espionage.
throwawaymaths•1d ago
"Treason consists... only of levying war against the United States or adhering to its enemies by providing them aid and comfort."