<story><title>Fun with Red Star OS</title><url>https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BuildTheRobots</author><text>The KGB used to require all typewriters to be registered, so they could identify the authors of anything they found objectionable.&lt;p&gt;Being able to track who produced an image that&amp;#x27;s doing the rounds spreading &amp;quot;propaganda&amp;quot; seems like it adds a lot of value (from an authoritarian point of view, at least).</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&amp;gt; add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files&lt;p&gt;But why?</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>&amp;gt; Spoiler, he doesn’t give a fuck about your hentai porn.&lt;p&gt;These operating systems do actually contain code that add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files, so be wary if spreading your hentai porn in Kim&amp;#x27;s country because it can be traced back to you.&lt;p&gt;That said, there&amp;#x27;s a lot of panic about fears of having it reach out across the internet and infect your entire network without any real basis. If you&amp;#x27;re comfortable with running Windows 11,you&amp;#x27;re already sharing more data than the DPRK could possibly want to extract from you, only the DPRK can&amp;#x27;t use that data and the Five Eyes most likely can.&lt;p&gt;The Glorious Leader liked his Macbook so he ordered his lackeys to build North Korea their own Macbooks with a shitty font and tracking submitted to their services instead it Apple&amp;#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>The US still does this &lt;i&gt;today&lt;/i&gt; via the MIC:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Machine_Identification_Code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Machine_Identification_Code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why your color printer cannot print in B&amp;amp;W when you&amp;#x27;re out of color ink (or at least one reason).</text></comment>
<story><title>Fun with Red Star OS</title><url>https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BuildTheRobots</author><text>The KGB used to require all typewriters to be registered, so they could identify the authors of anything they found objectionable.&lt;p&gt;Being able to track who produced an image that&amp;#x27;s doing the rounds spreading &amp;quot;propaganda&amp;quot; seems like it adds a lot of value (from an authoritarian point of view, at least).</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&amp;gt; add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files&lt;p&gt;But why?</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>&amp;gt; Spoiler, he doesn’t give a fuck about your hentai porn.&lt;p&gt;These operating systems do actually contain code that add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files, so be wary if spreading your hentai porn in Kim&amp;#x27;s country because it can be traced back to you.&lt;p&gt;That said, there&amp;#x27;s a lot of panic about fears of having it reach out across the internet and infect your entire network without any real basis. If you&amp;#x27;re comfortable with running Windows 11,you&amp;#x27;re already sharing more data than the DPRK could possibly want to extract from you, only the DPRK can&amp;#x27;t use that data and the Five Eyes most likely can.&lt;p&gt;The Glorious Leader liked his Macbook so he ordered his lackeys to build North Korea their own Macbooks with a shitty font and tracking submitted to their services instead it Apple&amp;#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>LOL yeah the US does the exact same thing.&lt;p&gt;I would pay to read a newspaper that (somewhat satirically) reported on the US the way we report on our adversaries. Complete with referring to police as &amp;quot;security forces&amp;quot;, including wild speculations about the backstabbing behind-the-scenes of their top politics, etc.</text></comment>