Amazing how this might happen now...
Perhaps they are on Santa's naughty list...
CNN:
North Korea's Internet is experiencing a major disruption and could be the target of an attack, according to a company that monitors Internet performance.
"After 24hrs of increasing instability, North Korean national Internet has been down hard for more than 2hrs," Dyn Research posted on Twitter on Monday.
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Matthew Prince, president of CloudFlare, a performance and security company, described the disruption as if "all the routes to get to North Korea just disappeared.
"It's as if North Korea got erased from the global map of the Internet," he said.
Prince told CNN it's well within the realm of possibility that a single individual could be behind the interruption but said he can't conclude at this point an attack is actually taking place.
"If it is an attack, it's highly unlikely it's the United States. More likely it's a 15-year-old in a Guy Fawkes mask," he said.
The internet works (very simplified here) by routers sending the bits of your messages from one router to the next in the best path to their ultimate destination. These decisions are, as you may imagine, quite complex and they change dynamically dependent on the load at the exact moment that your packets are routed, as well as what you are sending - email or sms (text) don't have to get there in the correct order, while that's desirable for videos...
If, somehow, those tables did not show any destinations in North Korea, or any routes to get there... well could be a problem, ya know?
6:32 PM PT: It has been pointed out to me that this diary scooped me by many hours.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Sorry!