A new ‘hackathon’_is aiming to use the brains and innovation in Silicon Valley to find new ways to deliver information into North Korea. Current initiatives for smuggling information into the communist country include balloons carrying USBs, radio broadcasts and smuggling leaflets, but the Disrupt North Korea event_– arranged_by New York-based non-profit The Human Rights Foundation_(HRF) — aims to_tap into_tech minds (there will be no actual_hacking) to “disrupt the dictatorship’s information monopoly”. The event will be_attended by a number of activists and prominent defectors who will give participants background information and_other contextual details to help seed ideas. There is no confirmed...

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