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A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off His Mask (www.wired.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

“cybersecurity entrepreneur with hacker tattoos on both arms“ what’s a hacker tattoo? Your IP address? This article was really short on how he did it.

[–] Scrappy@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

There is a picture in the article. Its his previous handle and a what looks like a md5 hash along his entire left arm from hand to shoulder.

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