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North Korea’s “Super-Secure” Red Star OS Can Be Hacked with Just a Link

Security researchers find easy to exploit vulnerability. North Korea is one of those countries whose governments pushed for the migration to a domestically-developed operating system that’s supposed to be more secure than foreign software, such as Microsoft’s own Windows, which they claim can always include backdoors and malicious code. This is how North Korea ended […]

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North Korea’s Linux-based Red Star OS is as oppressive as you’d expect

North Korea’s homegrown computer operating system mirrors its political one – marked by a high degree of paranoia and invasive snooping on users, according to two German researchers. Their investigation, the deepest yet into the country’s Red Star OS, illustrates the challenges Pyongyang faces in trying to embrace the benefits of computing and the internet […]

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