North Korea is suffering a complete internet outage

22 Dec 2014 • engadget.com

The Network researcher didn’t go out of his way to suggest that North Korea’s internet service is under direct attack, but the idea has some merit. Just last week the FBI officially stated that it believed North Korea to be behind the recent hack at Sony Pictures, and US President Barack Obama promised to “respond proportionally, and in a place, time and manner that we choose.” Considering the events of the past week, it’s an easy suspicion to cling to, but it’s also very unconfirmed: White House National Security spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan stated that the White House has no new comments on North Korea today. “If in fact North Korea’s internet has gone down,” she wrote to Bloomberg, “We’d refer you to that government for comment.”

I hope this isn’t our future. We suspect a country of something bad so we just shut off their internet completely? Seems a bit like dropping a nuke when what is needed is really a much more surgical strike.