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North Korea launches 'secure' email

Dec 2, 2003 2:11AM PST

Little is known about how many people are online in North Korea, but the country is claiming to have have launched an email service with 'guaranteed' security.

North Korea has launched an email service that "guarantees the privacy of correspondence", although it's likely very few North Koreans have Internet access at all.

The dispatch said that "the email service guarantees the privacy of correspondence as it has a network security system," although no technical details were included. It did say that it had "a large transmission ban", which appears to mean high-speed bandwidth. The system is operating from North Korea's International Communications Center and works over local dial-up with a user name and password, and is free of charge.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118217,00.htm

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