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Mahn on April 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter a...

But what could possibly accomplish doing this? I can't picture the rationale behind it if it really were the US Govt itself.

executive on April 4, 2013 [–]

discredit the NK government by showing a bunch of kids can hack them.

enable the masses in NK to access the real internet.. create dissent.. initiate homegrown civil war.

Mahn on April 4, 2013 | [–]

That... makes sense. To some extent. I guess.

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