The operating system is not just the pale copy of Western ones that many have assumed, they concluded after downloading the software from a website outside North Korea and exploring the code in detail.
Advertisement
Belichick stands by kicking off to start OT
Quarter-back Ryan Fitzpatrick then hit Decker on a fade behind Super Bowl hero Malcolm Butler to secure a fifth consecutive win. Fitzpatrick also overthrew Kenbrell Thompkins, who was open for what should have been a 43-yard TD, early in the second.
The operating system – the Red Star – offers extreme snooping on its users and was made for the reason that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his friends in the government are too paranoid to use Windows or Apple Mac, according to the Daily Star.
Brock Osweiler still starting quarterback versus Bengals
After experiencing a setback last week, Manning returned to throwing on his own indoors this week. It’s just, ‘Let’s go, let’s have a good week, let’s work, ‘ and that’s what he did.
The researchers, Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess of German IT security company ERNW, presented their findings to the Chaos Communication Congress, a gathering of hackers and security researchers, in Hamburg on Sunday.
Joey Bosa: Bosa to announce draft decision after bowl
That worked against Pitt – Fuller thoroughly torched Pat Narduzzi’s stubborn cover-zero scheme – but didn’t against Clemson. Redshirt sophomores Donovan Munger and Tracy Sprinkle may also be called on to fill the void provided by Schutt’s injury.
“They may want to be independent of other operating systems because they fear back-doors which might allow others to spy on them”, he added. If a user tries to tweak any major settings – disable the firewall, for example – the computer will just reboot or toss up an error.
The so-called Red Star system is also very hard for users to tamper with, the researchers say, and is designed in part to crack down on the dissemination of illegal material – like foreign movies, music and writing.
Yet many culture-hungry rebels pass illicit films, news articles or books using an SD card or USB stick so they can not be traced back.
But one of the more concerning features is the ability for the operating system to watermark every file on a computer or flash drive.
To prevent smuggling of prohibited digital content, nearly any transfer to a USB stick from a PC with Red Star OS will be marked by a watermark.
While that’s to be expected, what’s a little bit surprising is that Red Star OS looks remarkably like Apple’s OS X. You can check out a full 27 minute run down of how Red Star OS operates and what it looks like below, but for now, we’ve compiled a few photos which showcase the OS’ striking similarity to OS X.
Grunow said that the operating system “definitely” invades privacy of its users and that it’s “not transparent to the user”.
“It could be that this file is your individual fingerprint and they register this fingerprint to you, and that could help them track down individual users”.
Nat Kretchun, an authority on the spread of foreign media in North Korea, said such efforts reflected Pyongyang’s realisation that it needs “new ways to update their surveillance and security procedures to respond to new types of technology and new sources of information”. Otherwise, the platform also has a variety of apps, such as a Korean word processor, a calendar and a music composing application.
Advertisement
The idea for an internal operating system was first conceived by Kim Jong-il, according to Mr Grunow. In fact, it’s pretty much espionage software with an operating system slapped on top.
