It was a hoax http://www.pcworld.com/article/2030073/the-pirate-bay-admits-to-north-korean... On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Warren Bailey < wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
Seems easy enough to convince North Korea that they should announce my prefixes... ;)
From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
-------- Original message -------- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Date: 03/05/2013 10:55 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Bacon Zombie <baconzombie@gmail.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: "After Being Cut From Norway, The Pirate Bay Returns From North Korea" or is it just BGP Tricks
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:43:05PM +0000, Bacon Zombie <baconzombie@gmail.com> wrote a message of 71 lines which said:
But there is a lot of debate on Reddit that they are not really in North Korea and just doing some BGP trickery:
And ICMP trickery, to send false ICMP replies (with a delay) to traceroute requests.
I am certain they are not in North Korea. The TCP latency when you connect with HTTP to thepiratebay.se if < 40 ms, something which you cannot have from North Korea.