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DOJ arrests 2, seizes 187 devices in North Korean laptop farm crackdown in Texas

reuters.com

20 points by usernomdeguerre · 2 comments

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theoreticalmal

Is the real motivation for these folks to “work and earn money for the North Korean Government”? It says the proceeds were $3M over 5 years…what’s the value of that at a national scale?

  • adrian_b

    I suppose that for a country that cannot get US$ by legal means, to buy whatever it wants from international markets, instead of getting only whatever Russia and China are willing to barter with it, any amount of revenue in US$ is useful.

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