Abandoned by
its allies in Sweden and Norway, the Pirate Bay has decided to set sail for a new virtual home in the
well-known bastion of Internet freedom known as North Korea… except that it hasn’t. Although
the notorious file-sharing site claimed to have found “virtual asylum” in North Korea this week, there’s a good chance it was joking around while trying to make an ironic point about Internet freedom.
Will’s Blog, a German tech blog run by an experienced hacker, has done some detective work and has found no evidence that the Pirate Bay has shifted its hosting responsibilities to North Korean networks. Instead, it has merely ” ‘hijacked’ 2 IPs from the North Korean network” in an effort to spoof traceroutes and make it look as though the site’s traffic is originating in North Korea.
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