Comment by MangoCoffee
9 days ago
It's hard to believe this happened. South Korea has tech giants like Samsung, and yet this is how the government runs? Is the US government any better?
9 days ago
It's hard to believe this happened. South Korea has tech giants like Samsung, and yet this is how the government runs? Is the US government any better?
Software and information technology in Korea just sucks.
buttons are jpegs/gifs, everything is on Java EE and on vulnerable old webservers etc... A lot of government stuff supports only Internet Explorer even though it's long dead
Remember Log4j vulnerability? A lot of the Korea governmental sites weren't affected because the Java version was too old :)
Don't even get me started on ActiveX.
South Korean IT seemed to be stuck in 2007 just not too long ago, would be surprised if it has changed much in the last few years. Do the websites still require you to use internet explorer?
Yes. The US government requires offsite backups .
They also require routine testing distaster recovery plans.
I participated in so many different programs over the years with those tests.
Tests that would roll over to facilities across the country
Samsung's software is generally terrible; they're decent at hardware, not software.
I was going to say, Samsung anything immediately makes me assume the software is awful. With a dose of zero privacy, cloud enabled door-knob or something.
The hardware is highly engineered to fail at a specific time window after the warranty is over.
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of the South Korean government is the storied tradition of physical confrontation in their parliament along with more than a few viral videos of brawls and such over the years. It used to be better in the US, but with the intensity of discord in our government lately, I don't think anyone really knows anymore.
If only our politicians were young and agile enough to get into brawls.. their speed seems to be more sleeping on the job while democracy crumbles.
> The first thing that comes to mind when I think of the South Korean government is the storied tradition of physical confrontation in their parliament along with more than a few viral videos of brawls and such over the years
You're thinking of Taiwan, not South Korea.
No South Korea has the same thing. It doesn't happen yearly but has happened quite a bit. We lovingly call it parliament siege raid.
https://m.blog.naver.com/gard7251/221339784832 (a random blog with gifs)
Our incompetence in the US is much more distributed. It wouldn't surprise me if the same kind of data isn't backed up, but at least it's dozens of separate federal agencies not-backing up their data in different physical places.
The US government still relies heavily on physical records.
Why is there a "still" in there?
Didn't Elon shut that down?
[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/13/company-ripped-by-elon-musk-...
Well, Elon has a recent copy of everything at least.