tomder55
Jun 7, 2023, 02:45 PM
Right on Right on . Remote work will be the death of America.
Martha Stewart says America will ‘go down the drain’ if remote work continues—and calls France ‘stupid for having August off’ (yahoo.com) (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/martha-stewart-says-america-down-105341415.html)
tomder55
Feb 16, 2026, 07:50 AM
Turns out there is another reason for ending remote work. It is easy to conduct espionage if you are working from home.
On a California-based company’s internal directory, he was just another face in the grid of remote workers—a prolific software developer with a polished LinkedIn profile and an IP address tracing back to the Midwest.
In reality, the man behind the coding lived in a state-run dormitory in China. His name was Anton Koh. And he wasn’t Chinese.
Koh belonged to a pipeline of elite North Korean cyber operatives (https://www.wsj.com/business/he-thought-an-employee-stole-crypto-the-fbi-says-it-was-a-north-korean-scammer-8aa533a8?mod=article_inline), identified, trained and dispatched overseas by the Kim regime. Their mission: generate hard currency for Pyongyang by stealing foreigners’ identities (https://www.wsj.com/business/north-korea-remote-jobs-e4daa727?mod=article_inline) to land remote IT jobs—with no gig more coveted than those from the U.S.
A Defector Explains the Remote-Work Scam Helping North Korea Pay for Nukes - WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/a-defector-explains-the-remote-work-scam-helping-north-korea-pay-for-nukes-277fc94f?mod=hp_lead_pos7)
Okta warns of North Korean fraud in remote tech hiring (https://itbrief.asia/story/okta-warns-of-north-korean-fraud-in-remote-tech-hiring)
When they are not stealing company secrets ,from defense contractors and Fortune 500 companies ;they are sending their wages back to the NORKs to fund the NORK nuke program.
Third of North Korea's Missile Program Funded by Cyberattacks: US Official - Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-missile-program-funded-by-cyberattacks-us-official-2022-7)
North Korea Has 'Thousands' of Hackers Trying to Get IT Jobs, US Says - Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-thousands-hackers-trying-get-it-jobs-us-says-2022-5)