despite being allies, big reason why Americans do not trust or share sensitive information with South Korea-whatever they share always ends up in North Korea and China
but perhaps the biggest enablers of these security lapses aren't just the shoddy cybersecurity management but the political environment
anytime you try to fix or address an issue, the opposition party will take contrarian stance without merit.
no political party in america will disagree with the events of 9/11 yet in south korea disagreeing/contrarian stance is the default because they have premature understanding of what democracy is (ex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROKS_Cheonan_sinking - imagine if a major American political party started refuting the events of 9/11 and defending Al Qaeda!)
so its no wonder that stuff like this will result in no arrests and waste valuable tax dollars.
A lot of Korean govt tech is also just protected by defense in depth instead of strong principles. It's kinda sad that Japanese organizations that by most standards are much more behind SK in digitization tend to at least have half decent security fundamentals. Hell, a misconfigured key exchange in their switch took down the entire government for 4 days because they couldn't even find it.
One jarring thing I heard from friends is the hacky MDM the ROKA would try to install on phones of conscripts who are serving. Instead of undermining the default security measures they should just ban all outside interconnected devices or buy a half decent MDM instead, but then again the contract wouldn't go to some politically connected dev consultancy.
ROKA (and a lot of Korean government institutions) are just plain incompetent at long term maintenance tbh (which makes sense as most infra in SK is newish - only 30-50 years old at most).
They should also just end KATUSA which is clearly being abused by the politically connected.
Also, given the poor quality of English education in SK, most KATUSA candidates will inevitably be from well educated and upper rungs of Korean society, as they have more resources needed to give that head start.
Don’t be too sure about your assessment of American politics. We have one major political party who is at least half in the bag for Russia during a war of aggression.
they have premature understanding of what democracy is
SK's problem is that unlike Japan with zaibatsu there was basically no movement/attempt to delimitate the powers of chaebols. Result: You "average" SK person is quite happy to launch into "deep state" related topics and has been ready to do so for the last (at least) 20 years. I've spent quite a bit of time there and a lot of the people I met have "shady oligarchy nudges the country" as their default image of the political landscape.
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despite being allies, big reason why Americans do not trust or share sensitive information with South Korea-whatever they share always ends up in North Korea and China
but perhaps the biggest enablers of these security lapses aren't just the shoddy cybersecurity management but the political environment
anytime you try to fix or address an issue, the opposition party will take contrarian stance without merit.
no political party in america will disagree with the events of 9/11 yet in south korea disagreeing/contrarian stance is the default because they have premature understanding of what democracy is (ex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROKS_Cheonan_sinking - imagine if a major American political party started refuting the events of 9/11 and defending Al Qaeda!)
so its no wonder that stuff like this will result in no arrests and waste valuable tax dollars.
A lot of Korean govt tech is also just protected by defense in depth instead of strong principles. It's kinda sad that Japanese organizations that by most standards are much more behind SK in digitization tend to at least have half decent security fundamentals. Hell, a misconfigured key exchange in their switch took down the entire government for 4 days because they couldn't even find it.
One jarring thing I heard from friends is the hacky MDM the ROKA would try to install on phones of conscripts who are serving. Instead of undermining the default security measures they should just ban all outside interconnected devices or buy a half decent MDM instead, but then again the contract wouldn't go to some politically connected dev consultancy.
ROKA (and a lot of Korean government institutions) are just plain incompetent at long term maintenance tbh (which makes sense as most infra in SK is newish - only 30-50 years old at most).
They should also just end KATUSA which is clearly being abused by the politically connected.
Can you elaborate or provide a link to the KATUSA stuff?
Just one example of dozens of similar cases [0].
Also, given the poor quality of English education in SK, most KATUSA candidates will inevitably be from well educated and upper rungs of Korean society, as they have more resources needed to give that head start.
[0] - https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.amp.asp?newsIdx=295...
another quality insider info, greatly appreciated alephnerd!
Don’t be too sure about your assessment of American politics. We have one major political party who is at least half in the bag for Russia during a war of aggression.
SK's problem is that unlike Japan with zaibatsu there was basically no movement/attempt to delimitate the powers of chaebols. Result: You "average" SK person is quite happy to launch into "deep state" related topics and has been ready to do so for the last (at least) 20 years. I've spent quite a bit of time there and a lot of the people I met have "shady oligarchy nudges the country" as their default image of the political landscape.