Over the weekend, a room of engineers, activists, and journalists met in San Francisco to tackle this conundrum at the first ever Hack North Korea, sponsored by the New York–based Human Rights Foundation with help from the Thiel Foundation. The mission was to develop clever ways to get media into the hands of North Koreans, and get […]

A hackathon held by the Human Rights Foundation will aim to bring more information inside the very high, guarded walls of North Korea. The foundation aims to aid closed societies and in the past has succeeded dropping USB drives loaded with Wikipedia into North Korea. The foundation explains the process for the hackathon this way: “Participants will […]