Internet access in North Korea is of course not prevalent on the finest of days: It Is supposed to be simply accessible to the military, the elite, as well as the state’s propaganda arm. It is considered that, assuming North Korea was behind the Sony hacking that caused the enterprise to cancel The Interview, it’d to do so with help from China, perhaps even from the Chinese government’s own hacking facilities. The Times notes this tidbit about the scale of North Korea’s Internet: Chris Nicholson, a spokesman for Akamai, an Internet content delivery firm, said it was tricky to pinpoint the source of the failure, given the firm usually finds just a drip of Internet connectivity from North Korea. The state has just 1,024 official Internet protocol addresses, though the real amount may be a little higher. That’s fewer than many city blocks in New York have. America, by comparison, has billions of addresses. That happens to be IP addresses get chopped up — each block of addresses is a power of TWO. It nearly looks like they are catching up!