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1y ago

Thousands of North Koreans stole Americans’ identities and took remote-work tech jobs at Fortune 500 companies, DOJ says

Based.

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if they stole my identity, can they hook me up with one of those high paying jobs while they're at it?
I love them accidentally admitting that DPRK not only have tons of IT specialists, but also better than US since they get those jobs so easily even without personally entering HR colons.
Oh no, North Koreans worked
Horrifying
They fuckin' better have been racking up social security benefits for me!
You are a liberal If you aren’t actively offering your identity to the DPRK to take remote work jobs
DPRK stays winning
they could have had my ID if they just asked
if true
Is this the new "get your asses back into offices, worker drones" propaganda tactic to stem the bleeding in commercial real estate? Spreading the fear that remote workers could be security risks?
DEI has gone too far.
- DPRKEI
- It has reached max level.
Based if true
i dont understand how this worked. Who did the interviews? Who showed up for meetings? Or is this some sort of outsourcing firm?
- Or is this some sort of outsourcing firm?
  That's surely the simplest if they were working for North Korea or they secretly run by North Korea.
Americans taking remote jobs and moving to impoverished countries, bringing the cost of living up

DPRK residents taking American remote jobs and staying where they are
Sounds fake and also propaganda
How does this work in authoritarian NK? Did Kim Jong Un organize this? Why didnt he just have them make meth instead of doing IT? How do so many NK know how to use computers?
How did they get hired? How do they have the ability to do the job? How did they get the job, even though remote work is highly coveted and competitive for Americans?
Were the thousands of users all North Korean? Or was it there were a few thousand total and a precentage of them were North Korean?
- Yeah, I never know how much to believe these types of articles or stories about crypto hacking. They're topics that don't require any real evidence beyond an "expert" making broad assumptions. But I hope they're true.
- Yea its complete fearmongering, the part that says "some even live in Russia and China" just gives it away. This was just a handful of americans hustling tech companies posturing as outsourcing companies.

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