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		kibwen 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT work... The reason that North Korea targets IT roles in particular is precisely because they're the weak link in zero-trust implementations. Someone, somewhere, has the unfettered rights to access the production database, and they're in the IT department.

mgiampapa 4 months ago [–]

If not production, they can usually read all the backups, DR systems, logging telemetry, legal discovery systems etc...

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