North Korea Better Prepared For Cyberwar Than US
American corporations and government agencies are more integrated into the Internet than their counterparts in North Korea, where most of the country has access to only a tightly controlled Intranet known as Kwangmyong.
China can limit cyberspace utilization in a crisis by disconnecting nonessential users. The U.S. cannot...North Korea can sever its limited connection to cyberspace even more easily and effectively than China can. Moreover, North Korea has so few systems dependent upon cyberspace that a major cyber war attack on North Korea would cause almost no damage.
U.S. ranking first in offense but dead last in both defense and dependence on the Net. The hermit kingdom ranks exactly opposite, which puts it at the top of the list's overall scoring and the U.S. at the very bottom. (It's also below Iran, though he doesn't spell out the reasoning behind that unlikely opinion.)
SOURCE: Forbes
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