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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.
In North Korea Fedora Forks You
Does it include systemd?
Of course not. They already have a cult leader to worship.
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*
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.
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.
"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.
Are you joking?
The NSA *want* you to go to 'forbidden' websites so they can monitor your activity and use it as blackmail material.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
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 people in NK think the poor in the US are billionaires.
It's rootD
what do you expect relying on third hand infos?
Here's to get it from the speakers themselves:
https://events.ccc.de/congress...
https://www.reddit.com/r/north...
605413? Yes, it's a prime.