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    Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    Based on Fedora Linux. It's MAC OS X skinned, privacy invading and very hard to tamper with.
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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    Sure this isn't Windows 10?

    I jest, I jest (liking Win 10 so far)

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    I've seen a lot of this reported by tech sites this morning.

    Frankly, I am astounded that this is newsworthy. Who on earth would have bet against this?
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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    The future of apple wall garden apple researchers are now implementing its features.

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    Quote Originally Posted by rob4001 View Post
    The future of apple wall garden apple researchers are now implementing its features.
    You mean 'Apple plan to start implementing it's features in 3-5 years'...

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    Quote Originally Posted by TeePee View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by rob4001 View Post
    The future of apple wall garden apple researchers are now implementing its features.
    You mean 'Apple plan to start implementing it's features in 3-5 years'...
    That wouldn't stop Apple having been first to introduce those features though

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    if N.KOREA are so smart why not make their own OS and CPU'S ??? instead of lurking on 'WESTERN' technologies. LINUX is AMERICAN tech, INTEL is AMERICAN tech, C++ is AMERICAN tech even the INTERNET is AMERICAN tech..........last time I used N.Korean tech.....I DON'T REMEMBER

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian224 View Post
    That wouldn't stop Apple having been first to introduce those features though

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    Quote Originally Posted by lumireleon View Post
    if N.KOREA are so smart why not make their own OS and CPU'S ??? instead of lurking on 'WESTERN' technologies. LINUX is AMERICAN tech, INTEL is AMERICAN tech, C++ is AMERICAN tech even the INTERNET is AMERICAN tech..........last time I used N.Korean tech.....I DON'T REMEMBER
    Linux is really quite international (Linus himself is Finnish) and C++ was invented by a Danish chap. Both those people moved to America though, so I guess you are sort of right.

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    Quote Originally Posted by lumireleon View Post
    if N.KOREA are so smart why not make their own OS and CPU'S ??? instead of lurking on 'WESTERN' technologies. LINUX is AMERICAN tech, INTEL is AMERICAN tech, C++ is AMERICAN tech even the INTERNET is AMERICAN tech..........last time I used N.Korean tech.....I DON'T REMEMBER
    To add to what DanceswithUnix said, CERN (a European based research organization) is where the 'Internet' was invented my friend. By an English chap at that.

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    GCHQ may well be developing their own equivalent. I imagine it would also be called Red Star, but due to government funding cuts it's been value-engineered to Brown Smear. Stinks just the same and sucks the privacy right out of anything and everything, but the gov will have made sure that if you work for certain disreputable newspapers it will auto-wipe anything that may incriminate you in a law suit/public enquiry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by s32ialx View Post
    To add to what DanceswithUnix said, CERN (a European based research organization) is where the 'Internet' was invented my friend. By an English chap at that.
    Isn't that the world wide web? Doesn't the internet have its origins in DarpaNet - a US MOD development in the 70s?

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    Quote Originally Posted by ik9000 View Post
    Isn't that the world wide web? Doesn't the internet have its origins in DarpaNet - a US MOD development in the 70s?
    It is, though again I think the international community has gone on to keep it up to date via the RFC process.

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    Not surprising they have based it on Fedora as the SELinux extensions have been in place for a long time and, if properly implemented, make it into a very secure multi-level operating system. The problem is that the configuration is far from straightforward. North Korea seem to have added some additional feature for intrusion and tamper detection, addressing the authenticity pillar of a secure system

    Sadly, Microsoft's virtual stranglehold on the corporate market has tended to stifle the adoption of it except in certain specialised areas.

    Apple's OSX is based on BSD UNIX (with the Mac GUI overlaid on top) but I would think it would be possible to incorporate the SE extensions, although whether it would be worthwhile is debatable.
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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    The only problem is they'll probably beat you senseless with an authentic pillar should anyone intrude or tamper with anything.

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    Re: Researchers investigate North Korea's Red Star OS 3

    To be honest, Apple already constrain the use of their technology a lot more than this. Ive often thought they operate like a communist state with their restrictions on use.

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