SafeSearch Gone Wild Sometimes images speaks more than words. We are showcasing how Google’s SafeSearch functionality can go wrong. Note that to pass the SafeSearch age verification in Korea, you need to have a Korean mobile phone number to verify the user’s identity. ID verification via mobile phone is used widely in Korean websites, which leaves the Koreans without mobile phone basically disconnected from the everyday Internet life. Why programming Rust is SafeSearch filtered?

Insecam and Korea Insecam is a website which crawls the insecure network cameras connected to the Internet without any authentication throughout the world. According to the website’s FAQ, they are collecting the network cameras without password protection and listing the live video feed of them. They also claims that the cameras are not hacked, but the vulnerable software may enable the remote access without any authentication. The website provides a grouped view by camera manufacturers, installed countries and cities, places.

What is KVE? South Korea is always actively insisting on the “platform sovereignty”. After a boom caused by Squid Game on Netflix, some Koreans thought that Netflix is not giving a fair share to Korean studios1 and complained why there is no local equivalent of Netflix which can attract users like what Squid Game did. Even an ISP sued Netflix2 citing that they are not paying enough for the traffic caused by Netflix services.

Security of Korean Built-in Home Automation System Apartments are the most wanted form of housing in South Korea, and the prices of apartments are one of the delicate theme of politics too. One of the important factor affecting the apartment pricing is available network infrastructure and availability of home automation system. Even there is a certification on the high-speed telecommunication1 in the aparements, which mandates optical fibre and/or ethernet link to the house and inside the house.

K-Home-WRTs The concept of router freedom in South Korea is… well, not actively discussed in this moment. The following figure is copied from BEREC report explaining the network termination point. While using self-bought modem is “technically” possible, but this happens very seldom in reality and the modem is supplied by the ISP at a lower rate or even for free, regardless of the type of last mile (e.g. DOCSIS, FTTx, ethernet).