Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as a deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's OS and the extent of that state's digital tracking.
What it is
A 32C3 talk dissecting Red Star OS, North Korea's state-built operating system. The speakers explain its internals and how it invades users' privacy, including file watermarking.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends freeflight · 2021-11 · on “Fun with Red Star OS”
A bit older but quite relevant and entertaining; "Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS", from the 2015 Chaos Computer Congress. [this video]
Recommends pndy · 2021-11 · on “Fun with Red Star OS”
[this video] - Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess, Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS - A deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's operating system The bit more detailed view, I'd say
Recommends pndy · 2021-11 · on “Fun with Red Star OS”
Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess, Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS - A deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's operating system [1] [1] - [this video] The bit more detailed view, I'd say
Recommends MaxLeiter · 2022-04 · on “North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden media”
If you found this article interesting and are curious for examples of North Korea’s extensive digital surveillance, I recommend watching “Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS”: [this video] The depths to which North Korea goes to track and monitor its citizens is a lot more complex than I thought (and this video is from 6 years ago, so they’ve probably only improved their surveillance)
Cites DavidPeiffer · 2020-06 · on “German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux”
Interesting note on Red Star OS: They appear to have a watermarking system allowing them to track how files move between people. [this video] Previous discussion: [LINK]