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Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS

Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2020–2022.

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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.

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.

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2020–2022
“A deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's operating system”
— pndy, Nov 2021, in “Fun with Red Star OS”

What HN commenters said

5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

MaxLeiterApr 2022Recommends

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)

in “North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden media” · View on HN

freeflightNov 2021Recommends

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

in “Fun with Red Star OS” · View on HN

pndyNov 2021Recommends

▶ 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

in “Fun with Red Star OS” · View on HN

pndyNov 2021Recommends

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

in “Fun with Red Star OS” · View on HN

DavidPeifferJun 2020Cites it

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]

in “German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Security & hackingOperating systems & kernelsPrivacy, surveillance & cybercrimered star osnorth koreasurveillancereverse engineeringccc