Kim is the family name. His name is "Jung Un", and that's his name, not first and middle names.
Slightly off topic, but yeah, Asian names, we got no concept of an optional middle name.
So Jung Un informally, or Kim formally? Just wondering, I have Chinese coworkers that opt not to use Americanized names and I struggle to know how to refer them formally vs informally
I don't think this guy can be addressed informally...
I think you are supposed to call him great leader or something like that.
I bet Kimmy won't do :)
Informally: Jung Un
Formally: (insert social context such as Mr, Dr, Lord, Master, etc) Kim
But "Overcompensating Kim" is largely considered acceptable too.
Assuming your coworker has the same name, then either Mr Kim (both formal and informal), or Jung Un (informal) is fine.
If they're chinese, then we are fine with you using our names. The Koreans and Japanese are a bit more uptight about that, as calling someone with just their names (rather than family name) may imply you're close to them emotionally. It also feels more personal to call a person by their name for Chinese cultures as well, just not to the extent of the Koreans and Japanese.
They're responsible for a handful of big backs, they are likely legitimately using it there for research or they cycle IPs regularly because they get blocks dirty and need to swap.
They definitely have enough bitcoins to buy a few servers abroad, for sure.
They stole like $300 million in crypto last year alone. Not to mention the $600 million from Axie Infinity in 2022.
I wouldn't be so sure.
All those remote workers do need access to the internet:
https://fortune.com/2024/05/16/north-koreans-stole-american-identities-and-took-remote-work-tech-jobs/
Not to mention Lazarus Group.
Do they even have a connection to the internet outside of North Korea? I cannot see their government allowing citizens to connect globally if not for state espionage reasons.
I think they do, buts it’s extremely restricted, and not for the general population.
I know they have their own version too, but I’m not sure if they are only allowed on whitelisted sites or if their entire internet is “air gapped” for lack of better terminology.
Reminds me of that video where a reporter went to NK and was escorted around and there was a room full of computers with people at the computers. Guy in the front has google open, but he's just staring at the screen the entire time, nothing happening, on a blank google homepage.
The government absolutely does have access to outside resources over the internet (so yeah, they have an internet connection). Individuals and non-government entities, I think, have a restricted internet. I think they have some sites (North Korean sites, for sure), but they don't have carte blanche to just search Google or watch Youtube videos or cycle through a million TikToks a day.
Where can i download this add on? I could really use it for my missle defense system. Does it allow me to launch my missles by name? Can i integrate it with my google home to select targets?
Not to be as conspiracy theorist but it might be the government with an install to see if there's any way for them to exploit it and hack any of our installations that are exposed to the internet
Billions. Many of the largest paper or digital currency heists in history were crypto theft by North Korea. They hack and use social engineering to get wallet passkeys, set up their own pump and dumps, either made or hacked an exchange or several idr, etc. They steal crypto and launder it, usually holding it outside NK for freer use in trade, bribes and sanctions busting.
See this comment for context: [https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1cahz0g/comment/l0v9hm4/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1cahz0g/comment/l0v9hm4/)
To summarize: This is likely due to BYOIP and geofeed. If the IP address does not belong to [AS131279 Ryugyong-dong details - IPinfo.io](https://ipinfo.io/AS131279), it is not a "true" DPRK IP address.
There are a number of ways to verify this. If the IP address is pingable, you can ping it from a multi-server ping provider and see which server location has the lowest ping time. We use this method for IP geolocation. So, for DPRK IPs, the lowest ping times are going to come from our servers in South Korea and Japan. Then you can look into the WHOIS records as well. The AS/org likely needs to be based in DPRK-friendly countries. No Western countries will have an IP range operational there.
Source: I work for IPinfo.
I believe this is because the DPRK mainly uses a kind of intranet, so they do not need all these IPs. I am not sure. This Red Star OS review shows that the web browser is trying to connect to a private IP address. I assume all public internet traffic is routed through a central server and these servers are assigned a handful of public IP addresses.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs8Y1TZ3ySg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs8Y1TZ3ySg)
it's very odd to me, as someone that lives in japan and has lived in thailand and vietnam, that Japan has fewer installations than either vietnam or thailand. as much as technology is available here or even made here and as sort of "futuristic" as tokyo is supposed to be - those numbers are shockingly low. 920 installations out of 125 million people? that's 0.0007% of the total japanese population that uses home assistant. i mean, i guess it's not that surprising. Japanese people don't really care about their homes that much.
> Japanese people don't really care about their homes that much.
You have this very wrong.
Japanese people want the most modern, safe and up to date home they can get at the time of purchase. They want that home to last till they sell it (a long time).
They dont tend to UPGRADE them as it isnt adding value for them or the next owner who will tear it down and replace it.
They will maintain what they have but it wont get better.
China on the other hand, maintenance is an alien concept to many of them.
Yes that's basically what i meant :) they only will spend what they can mortgage and not make any investment after
Maintenance is an alien concept in Japan also in my opinion. They want maintenance free. Like concrete everywhere. I personally don't see them maintaining things. I definitely don't see them upgrading things.
People don't DIY in Japan as much as Japanese social media would want you to think they do or should. It's sort of a "cool" hobby like camping. But really it's just for show.
> I personally don't see them maintaining things.
Not seeing it done doesn't mean it isnt going on. How many things do you see broken!!!
As an example elevators: [https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202306/28/WS649b866aa310bf8a75d6c097.html](https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202306/28/WS649b866aa310bf8a75d6c097.html)
I'm not sure there's much value in automating a 100 sq ft japanese apartment. Besides auto-locking the door and turning on and off your single light bulb, I can't think of much more.
I too thought it was very strange how low that number was. There are more sheep in New Zealand running HA than people in Japan. I was also surprised that there's nearly as many Germans running HA as Americans considering the population difference. This is all of course ignoring the fact that people don't have to opt in to analytics.
HA is (still) more popular with the self-host crowd. From what I know of those countries, I'd imagine both Thailand and Vietnam have numerically more people who are into the self-hosting than in Japan.
Would be interesting to see Alexa&HomeKit numbers tho
Which IP geolocation database is home-assistant using?
North Korea has very limited public IP address assigned. You can find the lists in [https://lite.ip2location.com/korea-(democratic-peoples-republic-of)-ip-address-ranges](https://lite.ip2location.com/korea-(democratic-peoples-republic-of)-ip-address-ranges)
North Korea have a very active hacking scene
Lazarus group is state sponsored, or they say...
Probably someone there have a HA server, as the steam account, and much more...
We can't assume that they are completely off the grid if they have a famous hacking group.
It's the Chinese. Chinese "businessmen" would've invested scam sites or probably opened offices in NK and from there do all the bad stuffs that they can't do in China. They probably employ some NK citizens, but the Chinese would've had the know-how to do more advance stuffs. Recently there's been an uptick of chinese POGO (Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators) establishments that's being raided and from the business structure, it looks like a mafia type business, wherein China based big bosses, invest in "businesses" outside of china like an online gaming/betting site, and since they are "illegal" in China, they move offshore like the Philippines and have they're illegal businesses there. They have bouncers, enforcers, torturers doing management of their chinese victims (and employees) being forced to do not so wholesome work (probably card dealers, operators) and they even import prostitutes for the chinese employees... With proximity to china, I would guess they have same operators doing businesses in NK, with probably more illegal stuffs (like scam sites, hacking sites, etc) emanating from NK, routing to China and then going on to the world.
Probably the team of hackers that is developing zero days for remote access into the system. Hope none of y'all expose your interfaces to the Internet. 😏 /s
Kim Jung of course
He definitely got some shiny blueprints to fire up dem rockets
Lets hope he get his automations right the first time.
Hopefully he's running matter so it breaks after updates
breaks fail-safe right? RIGHT?
Fail-safe for north Korean will (Kim's personal will) or fail-safe for rest of the world?
Hope it isn't using an rpi3
With a used 2007 SD card he got for cheap off aliexpress
“Would you like to test this automation?”
Let's hope he gets the fire and detonate automation out of order.
Or blow uo the world when trying to turn on the AC.
Rocket mdi icon pack
Kim is the family name. His name is "Jung Un", and that's his name, not first and middle names. Slightly off topic, but yeah, Asian names, we got no concept of an optional middle name.
So Jung Un informally, or Kim formally? Just wondering, I have Chinese coworkers that opt not to use Americanized names and I struggle to know how to refer them formally vs informally
I don't think this guy can be addressed informally... I think you are supposed to call him great leader or something like that. I bet Kimmy won't do :)
Lil' Kim
Kimberly
My friend Kimberly weighs 400 pounds, has purple/green hair and a dogs collar. Sometimes he also wear tiny butterfly wings and a too short tank top
The Unbreakable Kimmy Jong Un.
Informally: Jung Un Formally: (insert social context such as Mr, Dr, Lord, Master, etc) Kim But "Overcompensating Kim" is largely considered acceptable too.
Thanks I appreciate you
Assuming your coworker has the same name, then either Mr Kim (both formal and informal), or Jung Un (informal) is fine. If they're chinese, then we are fine with you using our names. The Koreans and Japanese are a bit more uptight about that, as calling someone with just their names (rather than family name) may imply you're close to them emotionally. It also feels more personal to call a person by their name for Chinese cultures as well, just not to the extent of the Koreans and Japanese.
Kim Jong Il-luminate
honestly this deserves more upvotes. I am going to change at least one room in my house so you have to say this to turn on the lights.
You're probably right.
Year of the Voice would've been an interesting concept for him.
Well of course. After all he did program it all himself.
What if he automated the rockets
Same guy that has a steam account
Also Kim Jung uno
Could it be some kind of ip spoof? (Props to THAT mad lad if so, that’s hilarious) I highly doubt there is a n Korean vpn, lmao
Does not even have to be an IP spoof, an out-of-date GeoIP database is more likely.
Out of date GeoIP....how many ranges of IPV4 is NK buying up recently?
They're responsible for a handful of big backs, they are likely legitimately using it there for research or they cycle IPs regularly because they get blocks dirty and need to swap.
Lol, Lazarus is proxying anyway
They definitely have enough bitcoins to buy a few servers abroad, for sure. They stole like $300 million in crypto last year alone. Not to mention the $600 million from Axie Infinity in 2022.
[192.168.1.0/24](https://192.168.1.0/24) would be enough to cover all of their devices three times over I'm sure.
I wouldn't be so sure. All those remote workers do need access to the internet: https://fortune.com/2024/05/16/north-koreans-stole-american-identities-and-took-remote-work-tech-jobs/ Not to mention Lazarus Group.
Do they even have a connection to the internet outside of North Korea? I cannot see their government allowing citizens to connect globally if not for state espionage reasons.
I think they do, buts it’s extremely restricted, and not for the general population. I know they have their own version too, but I’m not sure if they are only allowed on whitelisted sites or if their entire internet is “air gapped” for lack of better terminology.
Reminds me of that video where a reporter went to NK and was escorted around and there was a room full of computers with people at the computers. Guy in the front has google open, but he's just staring at the screen the entire time, nothing happening, on a blank google homepage.
Vice documentary - just watched it
Air gap is actually the correct terminology.
The government absolutely does have access to outside resources over the internet (so yeah, they have an internet connection). Individuals and non-government entities, I think, have a restricted internet. I think they have some sites (North Korean sites, for sure), but they don't have carte blanche to just search Google or watch Youtube videos or cycle through a million TikToks a day.
They might be onto something
I'm pretty sure Un person does...
Well if there's anywhere were there is actual use for VPNs, it's in states with great censorship
Kim Jung’s automated his missile defense systems, at least that’s what his advisers tell him.
Probably running the whole thing on a Pi, at that.
Nah, custom NK Pi clone.
Ah ok. We’re all safe then.
CIA Stuxnetted it years ago.
Ok Google Launch the missiles!!
Playing "Middle Launch" by Hans Zimmer on Spotify....
I felt this one
Hmmm something went wrong. Please try again later.
No! No! Not Washington DC, I said "The Sea!!!" OK google stop!!!
I have a routine called “Killswitch” that shuts down my environment. A little different than missiles…
Opens Missile Command
Trigger: motion
Alexa, please turn up the heating... "launching thermonuclear detonation"
[удалено]
It’s funny how anti authoritarian fiction often becomes an idiots guide to despotism.
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They did, it’s called 1984 by George Orwell.
Where can i download this add on? I could really use it for my missle defense system. Does it allow me to launch my missles by name? Can i integrate it with my google home to select targets?
Only works on NKOS 11
I wonder if his nukes are wifi or zigbee?
They’re probably Bluetooth. That’s why they crash when they’re out of range.
No, it's definitely X10
I wonder what baud the 56k modem is set at
Not to be as conspiracy theorist but it might be the government with an install to see if there's any way for them to exploit it and hack any of our installations that are exposed to the internet
I mean it's either an error or the government ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
or both
Or kim
I thought those were 2 words for the same thing.
Well luckily then the government is incompetent enough to turn on telemetry lol
They've successfully stolen millions in crypto to my understanding.. certainly feel like there were many articles on this a handful of years ago.
Billions. Many of the largest paper or digital currency heists in history were crypto theft by North Korea. They hack and use social engineering to get wallet passkeys, set up their own pump and dumps, either made or hacked an exchange or several idr, etc. They steal crypto and launder it, usually holding it outside NK for freer use in trade, bribes and sanctions busting.
...and then they opted in to telemetry
100% this. North Koreans have too hackers that are hired exclusively to do cybercrime and get money for big boss kim.
The data, if accurate, could be exactly this and is not a conspiracy thought at all.
You are spot on … they are likely exploring it to find vulnerabilities. At least that is my bet.
That actually makes more sense than anything else
They must have caught him. I just checked and now it says none
Yup. Maybe Jong Un saw this post and turned off analytics.
How dare you refer to the Supreme Leader informally! /s
they automated the turrets in the DMZ right.....
See this comment for context: [https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1cahz0g/comment/l0v9hm4/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1cahz0g/comment/l0v9hm4/) To summarize: This is likely due to BYOIP and geofeed. If the IP address does not belong to [AS131279 Ryugyong-dong details - IPinfo.io](https://ipinfo.io/AS131279), it is not a "true" DPRK IP address. There are a number of ways to verify this. If the IP address is pingable, you can ping it from a multi-server ping provider and see which server location has the lowest ping time. We use this method for IP geolocation. So, for DPRK IPs, the lowest ping times are going to come from our servers in South Korea and Japan. Then you can look into the WHOIS records as well. The AS/org likely needs to be based in DPRK-friendly countries. No Western countries will have an IP range operational there. Source: I work for IPinfo.
I find it kinda hilarious that they only have 4 /24's
I believe this is because the DPRK mainly uses a kind of intranet, so they do not need all these IPs. I am not sure. This Red Star OS review shows that the web browser is trying to connect to a private IP address. I assume all public internet traffic is routed through a central server and these servers are assigned a handful of public IP addresses. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs8Y1TZ3ySg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs8Y1TZ3ySg)
Kim can’t afford Control4
Can anyone? 😬👀
it's very odd to me, as someone that lives in japan and has lived in thailand and vietnam, that Japan has fewer installations than either vietnam or thailand. as much as technology is available here or even made here and as sort of "futuristic" as tokyo is supposed to be - those numbers are shockingly low. 920 installations out of 125 million people? that's 0.0007% of the total japanese population that uses home assistant. i mean, i guess it's not that surprising. Japanese people don't really care about their homes that much.
> Japanese people don't really care about their homes that much. You have this very wrong. Japanese people want the most modern, safe and up to date home they can get at the time of purchase. They want that home to last till they sell it (a long time). They dont tend to UPGRADE them as it isnt adding value for them or the next owner who will tear it down and replace it. They will maintain what they have but it wont get better. China on the other hand, maintenance is an alien concept to many of them.
In other words Japanese turn off analytics
Japan: As built, all installed when constructed. HA: something you add after the fact. Nothing to do with analytics and more to do with culture.
No they pay 2x as much for the Sony built version that doesn't do half as much.
But works twice as much.
Yes that's basically what i meant :) they only will spend what they can mortgage and not make any investment after Maintenance is an alien concept in Japan also in my opinion. They want maintenance free. Like concrete everywhere. I personally don't see them maintaining things. I definitely don't see them upgrading things. People don't DIY in Japan as much as Japanese social media would want you to think they do or should. It's sort of a "cool" hobby like camping. But really it's just for show.
> I personally don't see them maintaining things. Not seeing it done doesn't mean it isnt going on. How many things do you see broken!!! As an example elevators: [https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202306/28/WS649b866aa310bf8a75d6c097.html](https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202306/28/WS649b866aa310bf8a75d6c097.html)
Literally everything stays broken once its broken at least in my neighborhood
I'm not sure there's much value in automating a 100 sq ft japanese apartment. Besides auto-locking the door and turning on and off your single light bulb, I can't think of much more.
That’s also only people that choose to share analytics
I too thought it was very strange how low that number was. There are more sheep in New Zealand running HA than people in Japan. I was also surprised that there's nearly as many Germans running HA as Americans considering the population difference. This is all of course ignoring the fact that people don't have to opt in to analytics.
Germans, especially ones with technical skills, are very privacy conscious.
HA is (still) more popular with the self-host crowd. From what I know of those countries, I'd imagine both Thailand and Vietnam have numerically more people who are into the self-hosting than in Japan. Would be interesting to see Alexa&HomeKit numbers tho
Embassy of Sweden
It’s the other way around. That Madlad figure out your software and now is going to prank you
Running HA to check for vulnerabilities so they can hack us all
Probably hackers, trying to find new exploids..
Big Kim.
Bring Jung Home
Foreign embassy perhaps.
Kim Jong Un ....obviously
Kim Jong Fun... Probably
Kim is a secret nerd hobbits
There's two instances in Turkmenistan...
Which IP geolocation database is home-assistant using? North Korea has very limited public IP address assigned. You can find the lists in [https://lite.ip2location.com/korea-(democratic-peoples-republic-of)-ip-address-ranges](https://lite.ip2location.com/korea-(democratic-peoples-republic-of)-ip-address-ranges)
That's awesome. Nice discovery. Cool post.
more like how, since every site will be blocked from there.
Maybe someone who had to travel and uses HA on their mobile station?
I've turned on analytics now to pump up those Core numbers. By 1.
😭🤣
Legend!
Bring them one by one in the 21st century
Take it out and you probably after the countries monitoring of something... Cia here we come
No no no....that is the Home Assistant that RUNs north Korea!
North Korea have a very active hacking scene Lazarus group is state sponsored, or they say... Probably someone there have a HA server, as the steam account, and much more... We can't assume that they are completely off the grid if they have a famous hacking group.
LOOL this is a good one and to have the guts to turn on statistics hahaha
Josef Pwag
Guess who’s product is being reverse engineered
https://preview.redd.it/k0m41f5s7r5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=678c22e966cd1e46176deb4dd878ae0fd4d1c7bd
It's the Chinese. Chinese "businessmen" would've invested scam sites or probably opened offices in NK and from there do all the bad stuffs that they can't do in China. They probably employ some NK citizens, but the Chinese would've had the know-how to do more advance stuffs. Recently there's been an uptick of chinese POGO (Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators) establishments that's being raided and from the business structure, it looks like a mafia type business, wherein China based big bosses, invest in "businesses" outside of china like an online gaming/betting site, and since they are "illegal" in China, they move offshore like the Philippines and have they're illegal businesses there. They have bouncers, enforcers, torturers doing management of their chinese victims (and employees) being forced to do not so wholesome work (probably card dealers, operators) and they even import prostitutes for the chinese employees... With proximity to china, I would guess they have same operators doing businesses in NK, with probably more illegal stuffs (like scam sites, hacking sites, etc) emanating from NK, routing to China and then going on to the world.
probably using motion sensors on the border
Some Missile Automation running on a cheap NK pi.
Probably the smart home system for Kim jong un
Kim be like, "Ok Google, fire the nukes."
All jokes aside, this is SIMPLY fascinating information. No kap
Kim
Kim Jung.
Kim
Kim jong
I guess Kim Jong Un likes home automation (dashboard called nukes)
Probably the team of hackers that is developing zero days for remote access into the system. Hope none of y'all expose your interfaces to the Internet. 😏 /s
Shouldn't that instance be banned by Home Assistant as they are an enemy nation state of the west?
You mean the USA as we don’t have such things in the bigger part of the “West“
I'm pretty sure North Korea is an enemy nation state for the European Union too.
Its Dennis Rodman's baby mama.