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North Korea's Operating System Analyzed (theguardian.com)
Bruce66423 points out an analysis at The Guardian of North Korea's Red Star Linux-based OS, based on a presentation Sunday to the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin : The features of their Fedora based OS include a watermarking system to enable tracking of files — even if unopened. The operating system is not just the pale copy of western ones that many have assumed, said Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess of the German IT security company ERNW, who downloaded the software from a website outside North Korea and explored the code in detail. ... This latest version, written around 2013, is based on a version of Linux called Fedora and has eschewed the previous version’s Windows XP feel for Apple’s OS X – perhaps a nod to the country’s leader Kim Jong-un who, like his father, has been photographed near Macs. The OS, unsurprisingly, allowed only tightly fettered access to web sites, using a whitelist approach that gives access to government-controlled or approved sites.
Does it include systemd?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
From July: Red Star Linux Adds Secret Watermarks To Files.
In North Korea Fedora Forks You
The features of their Fedora based OS include a watermarking system to enable tracking of files — even if unopened.
Fedora tipping-off intensifies.
be used by citizens in "democratic/free" countries to find out if they were violate by their countries gov/spy agencies?
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
One step forward, two back!
He is doing what the Republicans want to do to the US.
Someone should strip out all the big brother BS, leave everything else alone, and put it back where DPRK citizens can get it.
TFA didn't have many details, but I wonder how the files were watermarked. Some metadata perhaps, that added atime/ctime/ and the computer's install ID?
Perhaps a modification to the filesystem to allow for alternate data streams (a la NTFS) which would have a linked list of machines the file has sat on, which would be hidden from the user, and would move with the file?
Well, I guess that bit about "Here's to the crazy ones" carried more weight than we supposed.
"The OS, unsurprisingly, allowed only tightly fettered access to web sites, using a whitelist approach that gives access to government-controlled or approved sites."
In other words-the NSA wet dream.
I can hardly imagine a better name for a group that is analyzing an OS produced by North Korea.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
What's the name of root on this system ? Is it .. root ?
Unlike other guardian articles I've read, this one is lousy, or maybe, lazy. FTA: "including its own version of encrypting files" || "we analyzed the code, yep, it's encrypted." FTA: "visitors to the country say most machines still use Windows XP, now nearly 15 years old." how many visitors? most? some? two people? Isn't windows XP an operating system? So then is Red Star OS a VM? Is Red Star OS just a browser or VPN? FTA: Based on a version of Linux called Fedora.. what version? Many details are missing and there's certainly much more to explore on the topic.
In some other country somewhere, I'm sure there there will be an official looking at this and thinking Red Star OS is a very good idea.
The OS, unsurprisingly, allowed only tightly fettered access to web sites, using a whitelist approach that gives access to government-controlled or approved sites.
so it just like in USA
Can capitalist linux do 16 things red star do for juche & prosperity:
1.) Protect vs slander against worker's party of korea
...dprk
2.) Provide plentiful food compared to impoverished southern occupied korea
3.) Promote juche
4.) Consume food so fully that defecation is not required
5.) Create new star and rainbow to commemorate birth of great leader
6.) Monitor and tag all files for your benefit
7.) Devour entire stock of giant german rabbit
8.) Create prosperous kijong-dong
9.) Maintain generational prison camp
10.) Rescue southern occupied korean guard with powerful arms and drag to generous and prosperous north
11.) Drive off constant american military incursions as reported factually in state media
12.) Provide guided tour through museum of american atrocities
13.) Aim giant guns at populated occupied seoul for literal decades
14.) Have traitor devoured by dogs
15.) Have traitor destroyed by missile
16.) Locate unicorn lair
based on a version of Linux called Fedora
you mean, like, the red hat fedora desktop distribution? good god these writers.
What is the link to the site where you downloaded it?
Congress is in Hamburg, you insensitive clod!
Congress is in Hamburg, not Berlin, you insensitive clod! No power to vegan spread of misinformstion!
It's an interesting article...but the video linked to it is by someone who is fairly clueless about Linux. As it's well know that Red Star OS is Linux, the video's creator should have at least taken the time to learn more about Linux so that he could comment competently on Red Star. Disappointing.
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Can it play crysis?
Yes but its been modded so the NK's are powning the Americans
like his father, has been photographed near Big Macs. Lots of them