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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I'm kind of surprised the latency was that low. Unless the NK "employee" was spoofing being in SK or something.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    The article says he was remotely controlling a company laptop located in Arizona. A woman located in AZ was facilitating the NK workers, but she was recently charged with the fraud.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    How was he hired 🤯 ? It's a skill

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There was a scam going where they would offer for someone to apply for a role and use that good candidates clean information to get it v they would do the work and split the pay with the person who's info they used.

    In exchange that person would get "job experience", the perks of WFH, and the ability to hold down more than one of these figurehead jobs simultaneously.

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