Whatever the West has, North Korea insists it can do it better. North Korea is a place of advanced science, with its own special place in time. They even think they can improve how we share Minions memes and argue over politics, as the country appears to have launched a knockoff of the site they bought off the internet because of course they did. And hours after it launched, a teenager hacked it, because one thing North Korea apparently can’t do better than us is proper password security.
Andrew McKean, a Scottish college student, was poking around on the site and noticed there was an “admin” link. So, goofing around, he clicked on it, and typed in the username “admin” and the password “Password.” And just like that, he had taken control of North Korea’s social network. No, seriously. He had access to the whole thing; he could ban and suspend users, change the name of the site, and even censor words if he felt like it. By the way, the current name of North Korea’s Facebook knockoff is apparently “Best Korea’s Social Network.” We can only hope this presages a name change for North Korea, because calling them ‘Best’ Korea will make posting about their nuclear threats much more entertaining.
It’s widely expected North Korea’s social network will be off the internet in fairly short order, or at least limited to North Korea. Hopefully, after they do that, they’ll change the password. We recommend ‘123456,’ it’s easy to remember!
(Via Motherboard)