[muricula]

A zero day bug in the pdf parser or javascript engine of your browser. Such bugs are common enough that the North Korean military is believed to use them to gather intelligence and for theft, but also are rare enough that they're going to use them on just anyone.

[jhugo]

Did you miss a "not" in the last part of that?

[muricula]

yup :P

[rjzzleep]

I thought North Koreans don't know how to use computers? Remember the Kim Jong Un memes around that?

I'm frankly getting tired of all the hysteria. If that is indeed the attack vector just use a sandbox and a pdf viewer with low featureset. Is all we do nowadays mindless hysteria?

EDIT: comical. the response to the advice to use a PDF viewer with low featureset is to list Acrobat exploits. Seems like in the hysteria about how terrible "our enemies" are, all sarcasm and absurdity is lost

[blu_]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Group

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/497/Adobe-Acrobat-Reader....

[MichaelCollins]

Saying the inverse of what you actually believe but with a tone that suggests insincerity isn't comedic. It's just obnoxious.

[rjzzleep]

I can see why calling out the hypocrisies of the hysteria of people like you would seem obnoxious to you.

EDIT: Comical indeed that MichaelCollins feels the need to come to muruculas rescue. The thread didn't start with murucula, it started with people saying they should not open NK PDF's because they're dangerous. The mindless hysteria could only have been trumped by people accusing one of China and Russia stoogedom in the comments below.

I was merely referring to the memes that were so popular in HN circles just a few years ago about how Kim Jong Un was too stupid to use a computer[1].

I have no skin in the game, but if the HN crowd is not able to read a PDF with basic Opsec to protect itself from malicious Acrobat exploits, we don't really deserve to be called hackers.

[1] http://www.slate.fr/sites/default/files/styles/1200x680/publ...

[MichaelCollins]

Pay attention to usernames, rjzzleep.

Anyway, muricula didn't say North Koreans don't know how to use computers, so there was no hypocrisy in his suggestion that North Koreans might have competent computer hackers. You're raging at numerous strawmen at once.

[alexnewman]

So many strawmans, so little time. Viewing the history of rjzzleep is fascinating. He loves china and russia but can't say a nice thing about a western country. He constantly points to a collapsing west.