I have a serious issue with this idea that anyone trying to remote s/w engineer from North Korea is automatically a terrorist.
Maybe some of them are just trying to make a living?
Maybe a lot of them are economically disadvantageous because, like with Cuba, the US has been f_cking with them non-stop for the last 75 years?
Maybe instead of assuming that every person inside a geographic area agrees to all the exact same things, we should normalize relations with North Korea?
The Cold War, like all other wars, is an idiot's errand, which has contributed to the entrenched hostilities that continue to dominate international relations.
Maybe world leaders should try "adulting"?
Since pretending to be a grown-up seems to be as close as anyone gets anymore...
> I have a serious issue with this idea that anyone trying to remote s/w engineer from North Korea is automatically a terrorist.
> Maybe some of them are just trying to make a living?I have a serious issue with this idea that anyone trying to remote s/w engineer from North Korea is automatically a terrorist.
> Maybe some of them are just trying to make a living?
No one in North Korea get to "just make a living" communicating with and working for foreign entities. This is a country that is so paranoid that every visitor to the country is required to stay with an official escort who will vet any contact you have with locals.
The only way that someone gets to communicate with a foreign entity is if they are employed, or closely managed, by the North Korean authorities.
I'm not sure that agents of the North Korean government deemed loyal enough to get external internet access are looking for jobs at defense firms and devs in order to be good, honest employees that definitely wouldn't clone any technology or backdoor anything...
Indeed, it would be very implausible that a civilian North Korean would be able to accomplish all of: having the hardware, be able to get on a Chinese WiFi, and then have the education to be able to apply to IT jobs...
Maybe some of them are just trying to make a living?
Maybe a lot of them are economically disadvantageous because, like with Cuba, the US has been f_cking with them non-stop for the last 75 years?
Maybe instead of assuming that every person inside a geographic area agrees to all the exact same things, we should normalize relations with North Korea?
The Cold War, like all other wars, is an idiot's errand, which has contributed to the entrenched hostilities that continue to dominate international relations.
Maybe world leaders should try "adulting"?
Since pretending to be a grown-up seems to be as close as anyone gets anymore...