Undercover North Korean distant workers hate this strange question

It is estimated that thousands of North Koreans who have successfully concealed themselves as Americans and have taught remote jobs in Fortune 500 companies and cryptocurrencies. And while their entry techniques are complicated, capturing them obviously just requires them to ask a rough question: “How thick is Kim Jong Un?”

According to Adam Myers, Senior Vice President of Compogette Contracts at Cybersecurity Company Crowdstrike, asking this question during the interview process, stops workers in North Korea in their traces. While Speaking to the RSA Conference Earlier this week, Myers explained that asking such a question would make the future worker abort. “They terminate the conversation instantly because it is not worth saying something negative about it,” he said, according to a Registry reportS

Myers said there are other gifts if you know what to look for. “One of the things we have noted is that you will have a person in Poland who applies with a very complicated name, and then when you get them at Zoom calls, it’s a war of male Asian Asian Asian Asian age,” he said.

The Neg approach Kim Jong Un is not an original of Mayers. Earlier this month, Fortune is talking For Harrison Legio, the founder of a cryptocurrency launch called G8KEP, who said his company was flooded with applications from North Korea citizens, posing as future IT workers around the world. To capture them, he told Fortune He completed interviews by asking the candidates, “Say something negative about Kim Jong Un.” Leggio claims that other founders who know they ask the same thing to thwart infiltration attempts.

Now, is that really? Probably some version of him is, right? It just sounds so strangely cartoonish. According to MyersThese infiltration efforts usually involve the creation of some sophisticated prehistories and fake social media profiles for a candidate, after which a team of people who work on technical problems during the interview process are used as one person serves as a front. And they just throw all this in the prospect of saying a bad thing about their leader? They are not ahead to pull Captain America, saying a “Hyle Hydra” type?

With such a simple technique to stop a potential North Korean counterfeit, you would think that the success would be low for them. And maybe so, but they are still reported that millions of dollars are running back to the North Korea government, According to the FBIS UN is evaluated North Korean IT frauds have generated $ 250 million to $ 600 million each year since 2018, with workers reserving only a collar from what they win.

Part of the reason is that after providing these jobs, they tend to perform well in them. Reported the register This special FBI agent Elizabeth Pelker, a participant in the same RSA conference event as Meyers, said it was common to ask if they really need to fire the employee after they were found to be a North Korean citizen because they were reliable workers.

Now, just imagine how much they will be able to get in if they are allowed to say a mean to Kim Jong Un.