Korean ISP Hacks Customers Using Torrent Software
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In this video I discuss how Korean Telecom (aka KT Corp) deployed malware to the PC's of 600k of their customers who were using bittorrent applications to share files with one another.
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Having moved to Korea I can confirm that the internet is wack here. A lot of companies flat out require you to use VeraPort to even use their service.
From banks to postal, they all require this same piece of junkware to be installed.
Now what's fun about VeraPort?
Each site can require VeraPort to load additional software. This installation is silent and without the user's permission. It can even adjust firewall rules and block local programs from running. Hell it even installs itself as a trusted root certificate.
So my assumption is that KT used their DNS resolver to serve additional data to VeraPort and forced it to install this spyware. Since most koreans are forced to use this for "identity verification" anyway.
That is insane.
Also side tangent, I'm still pissed at the dysfunctional system that's nice check/check plus/pass.
Basically your korean ID card gets tied to your phone number.
And then you use said phone number and part of your ID number to verify your identity with websites.
Are these highly sensitive websites, like banks you might ask?
Nope, just sites like subway & burger king when trying to order food.
Or well, almost anything in korea. They all essentially ask for your ID card using this number verification system.
Don't have a korean Id card yet? Tough luck, no ordering food for you!
And it doesn't even work sometimes... I can't register for a subway account because Nice Check decided that I don't exist for some freaking reason while it works just fine on other websites.
@@inthefade You get used to it, to some degree. I do genuinely feel like the internet here lives in its own bubble though and it's run by christian soccer moms sometimes.
(And I wish i was joking on that one. You'd be surprised how often you see "This website is blocked for child safety" banners when on korean internet.)
I genuinely think that using a VPN is just a basic requirement at this point.
That government-certified backdoor 😩
What the hell is an VeraPort?
Something something no matter what you think they're doing, it's actually worse than that...
Something something what's going on please help me
Seriously, I think this is just the first layer of a really big onion(no pun intended). These companies can put whatever they want into software, and there's no way anyone can know.
@@richardb8104 Read the paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thmpson. Our world is so whack that me telling you how to acquire it will result in this comment being deleted. Yes, even the quest for information is being censored.
@@richardb8104 Cryptographic checksum would be a way to know if you confirm them over different routes that are hard to all man in the middle attack at the same time.
The Canadian and US governments wish they had this level of compliance from citizens.
Korean men and women are both very obedience and will do anything they're told.
As a Korean I did not know how bad the state of Korean internet is. I with KT goes out of business and the new Telcom company succeeds without greed.
Greed is the name of the game, you need to wish for a different greed.
3 internet enemies that I can think of that are developed countries: Germany, South Korea, Australia
These countries are really really obsessed with internet censorship.
You forgot to include Russia in that list.
fuck every single native ISPs here. my internet is capped to ~180Mbps in global network and they sell it as ~500Mbps service this is so awesome. do they not have the funds? nope. do they not care? they certainly don't unless their revenue drops rock bottom
@flipacoin, China too. They have a lot of hackers and a censored firewall.
I live in Germany and the internet is still "okay" here. Torrenting is not banned. I use a lot of torrent and free streaming.
외국인들도 이렇게 심각하게 관심을 가지는데 정작 한국에서는 별일 아니라는듯이 넘어가는게 말이 안된다.
KT 사기랑 갑질사건이 1년에 몇개씩 터지는데 다른 통신사들이 전부다 KT회선 빌려쓰고 있으니 대안도 없음 ㅋㅋ
한국인들 개인정보나 프라이버시 개념도 없고 관심도 없음 ㅋㅋ 그저 돈만 안 빠져나감 됨
Don't you have a legal system?
@@MrVecheater It's deeply connected to those conglomerates. In this case, kt was a government-owned firm privatized in the early 2000's.
KT, second only to Samsung.
@@hodolski classic. Gotta love the fake market for infrastructure
Let's talk about the Australian government trying to ban end to end encryption
And we all know Digital ID will be mandatory soon enough, you'll eventually need it for everything, a job included.
what that's crazy lol but what if they use steganography?
yes please... our government is ret*rded
Love western countries talking about Rule of Law/Rule Based Order but following dictatorships a few footsteps behind.
In European Union too
Stay obedient and compliant. See how well it works for the koreans? Who doesn't want to live in a dystopia?
Both Koreas are kinda special countries.
Pirating in Portugal is so normal that you can't do anything about it.
It's even in public schools as a tool for teachers
I always knew that online gaming in South Korea was a joke because the requirements of a real ID for the registration and payments. But looks like all the internet usage there is a mess
The North Korean side of South Korea
NK would pwn the site and mine crypto on client devices, instead.
I already am doing this to you @@casualweekday-ytshadowbang2469
@@casualweekday-ytshadowbang2469 At least mining crypto would provide some sort of income, unlike running some proprietary malware 24/7.
the craziest part about this is that they're getting in trouble
You should put the source of these articles that you get this information from.
Now, we all realize that our neighbor's garden is full of fake plants. XD
Japan also has ridiculous peering. I've seen so many tromboning routes coming out of APAC that it turns my hair grey
I'd like to know about this. can you give some pointers?
What do you mean?
Figures that the KT logo vaguely resembles the Kotaku font 🤔
Kotaku is owned by... mindgeek you guessed right
Hollywood lawyers? *rubs hands and grins*
Rubs t!tts like in south park
Bit of an eye opener. I had no idea South Koreans did stuff like this, let alone stuff this fucked.
Look more into that hellhole you'll see wonders
Absolutly wild
The fact that they can just pull that, means no one is safe in Korea.
north or south?
It doesn't matter.
We don't have internet
One specific person fxxks the entire country
South Korea
VPN
This highlights why people need to pay for their stuff directly. The incentives are all broken if they don't, and they will suffer for it in the end.
Charging companies for bandwidth would possibly make them reduce the amount of all the bloated js they use
Js is like nothing in terms of transferred data... You just watched this video and downloaded 100 times more than average website
@@0ka354 saving data is a gimmick that adblockers tend to use, so at least it is advertisable. I see no reason why it couldnt matter
it does twitch,facebook and a bunch of other services throttled the bandwith there to save money twitch said it costs 10x as much as anywhere else and based on charts 1000 users watching for an hour could cost them over 100 dollars
lmfao youtube deleted a commented mentioning a certain brovser adon, they use saving data as an advertisement gimmick
This is the beginning of a very hard and strange era. Mark my words.
This is very serious one.
7:43 Who knows? Maybe their routers/ONUs have built-in payloads that they can just activate.
Imagine going to war with your customers
3:24 Nah, you got confused with Romania and Hungary, in villages, you can easily have 1Gb internet.
That sounds like an urban legend.
Except it isn't.
Most of Mental Outlaw videos are issues regarding in the U.S and other countries. Data breaches, corporate spyware, forced subscription services, hidden backdoors, etc. Man releases ONE video that's in Korea and people are calling that place a cyberpunk dystopia. Talk about a confirmation bias..
no I dont need his videos to know that S-Korea is a S-hole with one of the highest suicide rates, thank you!
Just wait when Karma comes for the Korean ISP . There entire company data gets blackmailed for crypto currency payments
Can't relate. My ISP doesn't give a tenth of a fuck about what I do online, even if I don't pay.
Third world Chads rise up.
This shit right here is why I laugh when people thinks SK is a paradise of freedom and the atomic fatty is the (only) bad guy here
Possibly something done from the CPE also.
Reading comments I suddenly see why Qubes would make sense...
North or South; Korea will Korea
I used a KT Wifi Egg when I visited Korea last summer, am I cooked?
people dont seem to understand Korea is practically a cyberpunk dystopia lol
fr fr
Because it isn't, it's a very prosperous country.
@@FluffeonWolfie with less than 1 child per woman
damn
@@lolman533 damn
*I will pirate everything, keep it forever, and there isn't a sneed thing anyone can do about it.*
I am a pirate 🏴☠️
@@poopoo-dk4hu Hell yeah brother!
I abide by maritime salvage law. If I find yer data, she be mine more the plundering.
❤ your content. Piracy ftw
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This sounds like the nightmare scenario of what the Internet could've become.
You mean the model everyone else is going to adopt?
this is why the fight for net neutrality is so important
ISPs are furious that they can't leverage their infrastructure to gouge the hell out of anyone using it, be it their customers or other corporations trying to serve content to those customers
You make it sound like it's impossible that we're heading there.
Could've become?
The fight ain't over yet!
Keep fighting and prepare for the worst.
Stock up in knowledge, people connections and Hardware so you can help build freedom respecting internet infrastructure to subvert the centralized government sanctioned ISPs, should the need arise.
tl,dr: Keep your routers dry.
Evil only exists to consume
It's not North Korea doing the hacking for once
Legit, if I was forced to choose I'd pick the north every time.
@@qwertykeyboard5901South Korea probably has more advanced techniques in exploiting their citizens while North Korea keeps their citizens in a walled garden by design+circumstance.
@@yacinekcl Nah, North Korea is more sophisticated while South Korea gets caught and goes "Yea, and I'll do it again!"
I'll take Japan over Korea any day of the week if I was in the Asia territories...At least that place isn't so....strict in some places.
Koreans are Koreans. North and South is a western invention.
This is why you absolutely say no to anyone that wants you to install their app/code on you PC or phone. You just don't know what kind of STD you'll be picking up.
I wish you could do that. I keep a laptop with windows in the drawer for those websites. Because Korea started sensitive internet business stuff before https spread, they have a dozen or so “security” programs for banks, hospitals, university portals, etc. you get one of them backdoored and you probably can access everyone’s computers.
@@realGBx64 Man, that sucks. I've been reading the rest of the comments here and it sounds absolutely horrific. Having more than one computer or something running in a VM that you can shut down sounds like a plan. Yikes.
@@realGBx64 This is ill will. Germany started earlier that https too and every banks I know completely transitioned to web interface and API. Even the tax collectors did this.
@@realGBx64 just get rid of this security programs, use them in a virtual machine men, don't risk your privacy.
In my country they don't care. A ISP employee said all the DMCA emails they get just sit there in the inbox unread lol.
which country are you in?
Based
@@quebono100 Could almost be any country not settled or heavily influenced by non-'LatinX' Westerners. I'm guessing Eastern Europe or adjacent Asia.
@@whohan779 I thought also something like Serbia etc
Brazil is like this too, piracy is almost an constitutional right in here
I don't know about this incident, but the thing is, since the start of the commercial Internet, Koreans have been trained to install any random binary to use web services, so they probably just installed some random binary that the KT website told them to install. All Korean websites that deal with money or government information require the user to install ActiveX (these days, Windows binary for Chrome extensions, but they are practically the same thing). This is even mandated by the law, so even if some companies didn't want to use such things, they have to "to protect the customers". Bank websites will install an antivirus and anti keylogger. You already have your own antivirus? Doesn't matter; you have to install the bank's one anyway.
Well, I use a Windows VM just to use Korean websites, and the VM is riddled with crappy background processes even from the start when the web browser has not started. The background processes of these quote unquote security services take 30~40% of the CPU when there is no foreground app.
Gross!
This is why Windows is busting and going out of business. Even normies switching up to Linux, because Windows became botnet.
Is there no way to use Linux or something and sandbox it all?
@triggeringsmuganimepfp7611 Good luck to Tux because you can do virtually nothing with Linux in SK.
@@4.0.4 A few, not the majority, Korean bank websites seemed to support something called "Open Banking" which they say allows users to use their websites under Linux, but I haven't tried it. It probably won't work well under other than a selection of distributions like Ubuntu. If I understood it correctly, it's using some sort of Java binary instead of aforementioned Windows binary, but the fact remains the same that users are required to install some sort of binary to use their websites.
That is horrible. In Chile we have a net neutrality law. I pay $11 dollars per month for fixed 500mbps, totally uncapped and I can torrent whatever I want except really illegal stuff (P-level stuff of course). Have HDDs full of BR rips and emulation. ISPs can't do anything and they must ensure our contracted speeds, even through P2P!
Here in nepal you can go to the police and torrent p level illegal stuff and no one will give a shit
In my country that won't even get you 10Mbps with a 100GB cap than you're throttled to 2Mbps (That service costs $16). I hate South African internet.
For all the stuff happening in the continent, the internet landscape is pretty chill when compared to the "developed" world.
Déjenme nomás en Latinoamérica, estoy cómodo acá.
@@zebecuroour cops are oblivious to torrent and piracy
And its good
Wow it's so cheap in my country even need $20-25 for up to 50mbps....
And with FUP (the largest over another provider only 1.5TB, and the speed after FUP only 5mbps)....
KT shows hostility towards their customers everyday.
LG Uplus is very glad to use Huawei equipment.
SK Broadband simply sucks bad and kills your would-be-best esports match of the day.
Other local providers? Hell, no. All traffic outbound from Korea will pass KT's backbone.
Welcome to Cyberpunk 2024.
Huawei routers are the most proprietary I think, they usually don't have custom firmwares
@0ka354 Then I'm so curious why LG avoids using the same routers in US Forces facilities if they aren't sanctioned.
@@hodolskiThey are sanctioned in the US for political reasons, but they aren't sanctioned in South Korea.
@@0ka354Also Chinese software 😂
If you checking peeringdb or bgptools i don't think a lot of traffic is going through KT's backbone these days.
"With McaFee VPN I-"
Dodges shoe
McAfee -
catches bullet
Trash
It's so fun seeing more people realise how doomed that country is in general
Why is it fun? I get that some people are sadistic and enjoy watching others suffer but cmon man, the people living there are humans too...
South Korean males who have completed their military service would be glad to see our country going downhill. Jokes aside, this country is filled with scammers. There's little respect for those with honesty and kindness.
We don't call it Worst Korea by chance
@@triggeringsmuganimepfp7611
Based. Best Korea is nationalistic and patriarchal unlike SK.
@@triggeringsmuganimepfp7611
Yup, NK is beat Korea:
"North Korea stands as a bastion, a citadel of ethno-nationalistic purity, where the only hymn sung is that of the folk and their unbroken bloodline. It is a sanctuary where the soil is watered with the essence of their lineage, producing fruits that are undeniably theirs. Traditional values bloom like ancient trees, their roots digging deep into the earth, grounding the nation in a time-tested ethos.
Unlike its northern twin, a resolute fortress of ethnonational pride, the South gasps beneath the weight of an obliterated heritage. Suicide reaps souls in numbers that bitterness itself can’t fathom, as the nation's pulse weakens with each self-inflicted wound. Tradition, a ghost, whispers forlornly through the concrete labyrinth, seeking a vessel. Here, the fabric of identity unravels, revealing an abyss where echoes of glory are drowned by the cacophony of modern perversion."
Hmmm, not all torrents are illegal, i remember getting various distros of linux that way
Technically you can just upload Creative Common works (ideally with a copy of their license) or anything you created and counter-sue if anyone nags you about it.
Yeah actually that's an excellent point
Most big files use torrents. Back in college, we used torrents for sharing big ass animation renders for our classes & group projects because there weren't any reliable cloud-sharing services back then. Most cloud services are unreliable & have very limited storage ffs.
Foreign media have expressed that Torrent has been hacked, but to be precise, it is an attack aimed at video streaming using p2p. There are several services such as Twitch as Domestic services (in Korea, enterprise traffic is about 10 times more expensive than in North America), and some of them may have attacks on Torrent protocol, but they basically hacked p2p communications
KT's purpose was to disrupt p2p communications and charge more traffic to video streaming businesses
South Korea its a die hard dystopia, not only it's internet, the entire country is like that.
No it isn't. Seoul is so good.
@@xiaofengxiaofengxiaofengxi4651 "sEoUl iS So GoOd!!" yea? is that why they have one of the highest suicide rates? keep fooling yourself, kid haha
@xiaofengxiaofengxiaofengxi4651 say again after you obtained citizenship
@@xiaofengxiaofengxiaofengxi4651 That's the problem.
*its
I never thought I'd have to give kudos to Comcast, but hey they didn't infect me with malware
as far as you know..... but sure as hell as they record everything and sell it and use it....
They actually do.. they run nbc apps
@@dertythegrowerlmfao
Just the NSA instead 😂
I mean yeah, the service itself is shit, but not getting infected by your isp is pretty good
people finding out that both sides of parallel 38 are a dystopia:
@ZaHandle >cyberpunk
you think that is a good thing. lol
@ZaHandle No. Where did I imply it?
I own my games I own my music I own my movies and I get to share them however the fuck I want with whoever I damn please
that's goddamn right
Based
Amen
Sharing is caring.
Roughly 30+ year 🏴☠ here, just saying: If you only take, and never give, one day you will find there is nothing left to take.
Support those you value, in whichever way you can.
I used to think South Korea was a cool place. My opinion has been changing rapidly over the past few months.
Real life lore released a video on Korea that you should check out..
its dystopian AF, and one of the highest suicide rates.... Yea, keep that K-Pop infections away from your kids.
south korea is a dope place to visit but man, I would not want to live there
I knew it was a fake country the moment I knew that friends give each other plastic surgery as a gift. If even your face is fake then nothing else is real.
Don't let all those kpop and kdramas and mukbang videos fool you
If you're subbing to any of these - just quit it. It's just not worth your time watching
Number 1. KT Corp is the single largest ISP in Korea, not middle nor minor in any means (think AT&T). And a company this big hacking its own users (basically good portion of Korean citizens) is beyond belief.
Number 2. Probably KT will be okay. Korea government is in favor of telecom companies and never did anything in the past to punish them when they did horrendous things to Koreans.
And more thing, EVEN KOREANS don't care about this KT incident that much. Why? They are so get used to this kind of *uckery by telecom companies (not only KT, but all of them) and it's just another day to Korean. Can you believe this?
Stockholm syndrome
why we give a damn when other shocking issues on the fly
it's like normies on your side - but more tech-illterate
Cover Indonesia's massive data breach
keknya tipu2 aja buat nyedot anggaran 😂
ah yes, the best way of getting repeat customers
You missed the part where they only have 1 choice depending where they live
@@justadude8716 what about starlink?
@@ixin645 I am not an expert but I lived in South Korea as a student and no one has an acre of clear land to place a antenna. Majority of normal people live in storied buildings.
@@justadude8716 are you familiar with an alien concept known as roof? 1 account can be shared by multiple people too
@@justadude8716 they have portable anetannas which would fit anywhere
The peninsula is a massive hell on earth
I remember all my bros torrenting PSP ISOs n albums back in the day over the high school wifi
The ISP letters where real LMAO
one of the worst thing to worry about on the internet is when your isp themselves spread malware/virus/ransomware.
Not my android showing KT when it boots up 😂
"Mark of Slave" say locals.
I picked up the Nothing Phone 2 last winter and its actually a pretty good phone.
Maybe the real malware are the friends we made.
Maybe you're right. The worst malware are the "friends" that we made along the way.
Maybe the real Malworms were from the dogs we ate along the way
@@WackadoodL Thank you for pointing that out.
@@what-un4yq :P
From what I understand twitch had to shut down in South Korea because I couldn’t pay the amount the ISP needed to keep traffic up.
Doesn't make sense to me, if the foreign traffic is so high that they need local services then ISP shouldn't ask for any money because local twitch services will only make it easier and cheaper for the ISP
@@0ka354 they do though
IIRC (could be wrong), no net neutrality / ISPs being ABLE to charge extra means K-ISPs wanted to charge them (twitch) EXTRA. Whether its to make more (ofc) or to not-so-subtly push Koreans to use the local streaming scene instead, or BOTH is left to interpretation by the viewer.
@@Skyline_NTR Jesus.. more and more Korea looks like something from a cyberpunk novel. You either get into SKY to mitigate the cyberpunk-hell world, or you embrace it fully with no other choice. I remember a lot of Korean streamers saying that even RUclips was difficult..
@UniquelyUnseen Me being as a native really feels like there are plethora of information missing in English explaining our 'real side' compared to China and Japan
nor do we damn try to supple this issue at least cause duh, it's like Japan but far worse - this isn't something I can express fully honestly
the ISP likely has access to the certificate authority, so they prolly used MITM
Seeing as they're an ISP, I wonder if they used DNS spoofing on their own servers to MITM the traffic. It would explain why the damage was limited to subscribers, since nobody's really gonna use the DNS server of an ISP they don't have. Just goes to show how important trust is in the structure of the Internet.
I hope they lose their business. What an absolute clown move.
My first thought as well. Maybe turning a spare Raspberry Pi into a private DNS server would help? Ultimately, VPN companies have more incentives to not do this, but they still CAN. Going full private would be the only solution that comes to mind. DNS over HTTPS doesn't help if the actual target server is the one trying to MITM you.
@@O___P It's borderline criminal how underutilized DoH is. A lot of browsers have it enabled by default now, but that only solves part of the issue if your OS is using a plain text DNS resolver controlled by your ISP.
Spoofing the DNS is still caught if the traffic is over TLS, unless there's a certificate authority problem.
more faith sending my packets via ups ground service.
Yes they have been known to do this.
This form of, i dont even know what you would call it, punishment? Doesnt make any sense, how do they really benefit by giving their customers devices malware?
Hubris is the defining attribute of our era. In their minds they're the Lords of The Net, Giver of Bandwidth and Master of Connections, and their bandwidth renting serfs stepped out of line so they're squeezing them like a robber-baron would terrorize his peasants. The difference here is they're not feudal lords, they don't have the force of law or even a legal precedent to lean on, and people aren't (mostly) tied to these folks with absolutely no other options. Hubris.
KT is basically the only ISP in Korea. To them it makes more sense to do that than to just ban them and lose all that money.
No it isn't.
@@capn Looks like there is LG and SK as well, which provide broadband and mobile data. I could see how it'd be supremely inconvenient to switch given the lack of bandwidth sharing but they don't actually have a stranglehold on the market from what I'm seeing. Frankly I'd take a slower, even inconsistent, internet connection over the possibility that my ISP is gonna feed my machine malware, if there are other options and people don't switch to them now that the cat is out of the bag it's on them.
@@theeccentrictripper3863 From what I've seen in this comments section, they never really had an amazing reputation. If there was as much capitalistic freedom as you suggest, which would be more than what we have in the US by the way, they wouldn't take such massive risks in hurting their own customers, and that's if they'd even have any customers at that point.
And for what it's worth, I've seen torrent swarms. The Korean IPs are almost always KT residential. Even if these are leased it's still their infra. And why is everyone on RUclips so keen on arguing about literally everything? I can't say shit on this platform anymore.
We always forget that we dont own the modems that out ISP give us. Its the easiest point of ingress for the SKorean ISP to inject said malware
Its not the easiest point if you know at least something about ISP infrastructure. The ISP also doesn't own your home router, they just asked the brand to change their logo to their own, that's it, the firmware is closed even for your isp
@@0ka354Hardware backdoors mate?
@@0ka354 they can update the firmware on their routers at will via a special management protocol I forgot what it's called
No. They can't break HTTPS unless they also own your computer.
South Korea worst Korea.
🤣
Can't send malware when nobody has internet. Stonks.
Can't have that happen to you on RedStarOS. #stonks
Atleast in the North your basic needs are going to get met. Granted, the country is sanctioned to hell so us electronics nerds would have a REAL bland time.
Meanwhile in the South the poor _starve._
@@qwertykeyboard5901 🤣
I'm starting to think it's better to just leave them to the north. At least they'd have a higher birth rate.
Same
Exactly.
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@@irabucc469 As opposed to israeli bot.
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BRO I was just in Seoul, South Korea and had a KT hotspot device for my laptop and phone.
I'm throwing up right now.
I was there back in January I got a LG U+ sim card thankfully
Nice, porn bot just stole your comment
Thank you for your data sir, we will ensure its safe use and possibly detain you upon your next visit to this shit country based on your search history :D
Holy christ guys. I am here in Seoul using Kt at my place. I dont use that cloud bs and I torrent a lot. Most I've ever seen is some throttling and a text from the police asking me if I torrent.
Same as other countries I said I dont speak Korean and blocked their texts. Nothing came of it. No mallard nothing.
That's insane. What's the price and speed for your internet btw?
using vpn makes your internet faster in south korea btw
Wow, you are telling the truth while they lying 😂😂😂
Thanks. Watching this rn over KT lol
btw, webhard services are similar to file sharing hosts like mediafire, not torrenting.
It never made sense to me why Koreans prefer (paid) sharehosters so much over (free) torrents. In the EU there's no choice because your ISP gives your personal data to the lawyers for torrenting. But in Korea torrenting is completely legally safe because an IP address doesn't rise to the burden of proof for a civil lawsuit. It's a real heaven for torrents, especially since many tenants share the landlord's central internet access and never have their name on the telecom/cable contract.
@@RealNovgorod Due to path dependence probably, but I believe file hosting is outmoded here too.
> more developed than the north
> looks inside
> similarly dystopian
South Korea is a hell and South Koreans are horrible people as a nation
Disgusting. As a Black American living in the midwest, I'll never do business with korean telecom.
That's the spirit!
Because you are a racist
@@irabucc469 Today I learnt that korean telecom is a race. r/crazycomments
if this happenned in the US, there would be a massive lawstuit, and the people would win.
After a decade of appeals and hearings and finally a settlement in which each affected individual receives a $35 check provided they make sure to go to the website and fill out the form within 90 days of the settlement announcement.
no ISP dares to do that in the US because it could result in legal precedents supporting a right to software piracy and they don't want that
not exactly
laws don't matter the USA anymore. total anarcho-tyranny. if you think they're taking the little guys side ever, youre in for a surprise.
@@tacokoneko An ISP wouldn't care about that. ISPs do care about having to deal with subpoenas for traffic records.
No way, the Chaebol Cyberpunk Dystopia does shit like this? But we heard so many cool things from that despicable state
In Korea, cloud stores YOU
Here in Brazil my ISP used to cache the mostly downloaded torrents, bandwidth problem solved lol
north korea is safer 😂😂😂😂
Completely crazy situation. Will will not own your files, your computer, or your identity as long as the ISP acts like a government-endorsed internet gestapo.
So there is apparently more context to this situation according to what I heard from koreans I know, KT themselves actually operate a 'webhard' services themselves. Knowing this, apparently people who got hit by malicious software wasn't all general bittorrent users, but specifically focused on certain webhard service that uses bittorrent protocol for efficiency on their end. This kinda explains how they were so easily able to inject malware that causes disruption of service without everyone immediately noticing - they are targeting very specific software, not hitting everything that uses similar protocol.
As for that specific webhard service. It is apparently owned by LG U+. If you are wondering, they are another ISP that is competition to KT. It even caught people who are used to ISP shenanigans in Korea surprised.
I guess at least they are slightly braver? (or more insane) than Canadian ISP for willing to give direct middle finger to not just weak individual customer, but to massive company who has record of spiting back. Whether customer will move to either SKT or LG U+ from KT is to be seen. KT was always in free fall ever since it became a private company.
Pls stop using Tor with a VPN, and always use E2EE indefinitely.
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I print out every letter from my ISP and frame it
8:10 - "I really have no idea how this thing that I explained how it happened 3 minutes ago happened!" COMMENT BELOW to explain it to me if you've watched my video explaining it!
WHAT? isps send you a LETTER when you torrent in the usa?? i always use torrent without a vpn in my country cuz they just don't care lol
one more fear unlocked, no peace of mind.
2:53 - that looks like Windows XP
Time to buy a NAS and run zerotier for home VPN and host a private DNS
Truely the ONLy way to be freebis to own your own ISP, not track, possibky even anonymous payment.
South Korea is as democratic as North Korea, but they do a better job at marketing.
Japan proving once again that they are the superior asians
Internet traffic in Japan is also more expensive than in most of other places
completely unrelated but did you know UAE only has 2 telecoms, one is so dominant that their most of their data speeds are still measured in KB/s despite having the infrastructure to offer better and are still the most common choice. the government had a 80% share (allegedly less now) and they banned VOIPs like discord, skype and WhatsApp so people have to use the expensive totally not tapped international calls instead. my telecom doesn't seem so bad now tbh.
To be fair, Korean internet is probably the least regulated out there so it wouldn't be a surprise if some media magnate bribed KT to break and infect their clients.
Are you fucking kidding me? Them censoring porn completely classifies them as one of the worst right from the jump. Barring that they were infamous for censoring political speech before it was cool. They've always been a fucked nanny state.
Least regulated? Bro, they literally ban EVERY p[opc]0rn site.
But then still you might be onto something, the "nth rooms" are a sign of degenerative moral filth.
I don't really see the point.
Wouldn't deleting people's files make them redownload and use even more bandwidth?
oh right, they have to pay for that...
0:15 the most annoying part of these are that some indie devs that have alpha builds and early access games that are way too large for free file sharing sites like MEGA get hurt by this too. i follow some game creators that have servers up and share their early access games via torrents or some mod maker that make large texture mods also have servers up to share their mods with torrents bc other wise it would take days to download the games or mods through browser downloads.
heck even most Linux distros have torrent option for their ISOs and flagging all torrents as pirated content is just lazy af
I thought south koreans are the good guys...not the north, i am disappointed.
Yep, looks like it's that ole 'THIS PERSON SHOULDN'T APPEAR IN THE COMMENTS ANYMORE!' time of the election year.
The thing is, South Korea started using sensitive stuff on the internet before https became commonplace, so they use a bunch of additional software for “security”, that are totally outdated.
On my work computer with Windows 11, I have at least 15 different “보안프로그램“ installed. If Kt managed to man in the middle one of those at an update, they could get basically all of their customers.
whats a 보안프로그램? curious, is it some sort of anti virus?