July 2024
This newsletter is a collection of things I have found in the last month that I enjoyed, found interesting, or simply wanted to share.
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Un(der) Attack
A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off His Mask
In late January of 2022, he began running custom hacking scripts designed to target a few key North Korean routers responsible for internet traffic into and out of the country, repeatedly checking whether they were online and, if they were, amplifying his waves of malicious data requests to cause them to crash. He described the project to WIRED at the time as about equivalent in workload to a “small-to-medium” size penetration test of the kind Hyperion Gray would carry out for clients.
North Korean watchers soon began to notice that the Hermit Kingdom’s entire web, from its government portal to its state-run airline booking site, had been knocked offline for days on end by an apparent cyberattack. News outlets published stories that pointed to the country’s recent missile tests, implying that the attack was perhaps the work of another country’s cyber forces—one news site suggested the US or possibly China—to signal to North Korea that it should stop threatening its neighbors. In reality, it was all the work of one aggrieved Florida man in his pajamas.
Links
- The (World Series Champion) Texas Rangers are the only team in MLB who do not celebrate a Pride Night, more from last year
- America’s best decade, according to data
- A 477 mile long lightning bold
- Motion capture actress
- The Fire Hydrant Directory
- Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
- The mysterious tyranny of trendy baby names
- Words you can spell with a calculator
- Dear next visitor…
- Free coloring books from museums and libraries
- An FM radio Game Boy cartridge
- Best Months to Visit Each National Park
- Explain That Stuff
- 35 Medieval Expressions Invented by Chaucer
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Thanks for reading. Have a great month,
Clay
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A bit about me: I can be interested in anything, for better or worse. I love photography, travel, golf, and baseball. My latest pursuit is learning the guitar. I write a rad newsletter that I publish monthly.