A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant. Normally, a U.S.-based remote worker’s computer would send keystroke data within tens of milliseconds. This suspicious individual’s keyboard lag was “more than 110 milliseconds,” reports Bloomberg.

Amazon is commendably proactive in its pursuit of impostors, according to the source report. The news site talked with Amazon’s Chief Security Officer, Stephen Schmidt, about this fascinating new case of North Koreans trying to infiltrate U.S. organizations to raise hard currency for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and sometimes indulge in espionage and/or sabotage.

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    17 hours ago

    These people are definitely not there just to make some money. And whatever money they make will be used to prop up the genocidal regime.

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      8 hours ago

      Are you talking about the USA Amazon workers propping up the USA genocidal regime, as seen in Palestine? Because, AFAIK, there’s no genocide going on as a consequence of North Korea. Care to elaborate?

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        8 hours ago

        I’d say locking up a substantial part of your population, including their families in murderous gulags amounts to genocide. Oh, and did anybody say Arduous March?

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          7 hours ago

          I’d say locking up a substantial part of your population

          US has highest prison population in the world, 1 in 5 black men go through the prison system. Is that genocide?

          including their families

          This is fox news propaganda, similar level to “weapons of mass destruction in Iraq”

          gulags

          Gulags are just prisons. GULAG is the acronym of the penitentiary system of the USSR.