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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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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Vdi tracks round trip latency but 100ms isn’t that far.

I bet they didn’t use keystroke latency but that’s what they said they used. They probably used drone reconnaissance.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Yeah 100ms is like coast-to-coast US

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Light in fiberoptic travels at about 0.66c, or about 124,000 mi/sec. Data on copper actually has an advantage here, travelling at 0.99c, but it's not sustainable for long distance.

100ms being 1/10th of a second would be 12,400 miles.

The earth is about 24,000 miles at the equator.

At most, 100ms one-diredtional would be literally halfway around the world.

Of course, I have 60ms packet latency to my office 45 miles away as the crow flies. So maybe packet latency isn't the best way to tell.

[–] guy@piefed.social 4 points 10 hours ago

They had the drone follow the fibre cable all the way to NK