North Korean software is loaded with spyware – Automation Guide

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Experts have analyzed the Red Star software, an operating system from North -Korea. What she saw was a battery spyware, which maps almost all movements of the user

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The OS looks a bit like OS-X from Apple, but that is only the outside. Internally, it is a true espionage machine. Files can be provided with a unique feature, which allows them to be directly linked to a particular person. In this way it is exactly known which files by user which have been viewed or processed. Analysts have reported their findings at the Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg.

All inputs

The operating system holds all the inputs of the computer into the holes. If a file being read from a USB stick, this will be immediately pasted on a watermark. “That way the state can follow any document,” said Florian Grunow, one of the researchers.

Still unknown

The researchers have a large part of the software can unravel, but there are still white spots. For example, the routines that can link a characteristic of a file to a particular person. How precisely does his work is unknown. Grunow: “This system is much more sophisticated than the classification of traffic congestion is also a very strong encryption used, we are still not back…”

Kim Jong-il

The idea for a proprietary operating system is the brainchild of Kim Jong-il, the former leader of the country. He determined that North Korea should have its own OS. The number of computers in the country is limited, so it is likely that Red Star is used in libraries, schools, universities and in government. Private individuals have almost no computer at their disposal.