SURPRISE: Norks' Linux distro has security vulns Well, that didn't take long: mere days after North Korea's Red Star OS leaked to the west in the form of an ISO, security researchers have started exposing its vulnerabilities. According to this post at Seclists, the udev rules in version 3.0 of the US and the rc.sysint script in version 2.0 are both world-writable. Both of …
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Being a nork computer it probably has the processing power of a Raspberry Pi.
Maybe Lady Ada could produce a matching cabinet for the Pi. Should leave plenty of room for expansion!
If it is a computer at all. Based on the console style it looks like a verbatim clone of some piece of old Russian military equipment.
Some of these are analogue. Also, while (even if it is a computer) it may have a fraction of the computing power of a Pi it will probably be alive and kicking after the EMP from a nearby 300Kt airburst. The Pi will not be.
All of this if they Norks did not f*** it up while cloning. The way they did trying to clone RedHat (or whatever else they cloned for their distro).
Instead of "Big Brother Iron", Small Versatile Juché Bird.
But still stalinistically centralized.
And the ISOs leak! TREASON!
To all those security "experts" bragging about the security holes they are finding in the Norks' Linux - STFU! Seriously, you're doing free bug-testing for a repressive regime, put your egos back in the box and leave Kim Jr and co in ignorance, please. You are not protecting "the people" as the few users in North Korea are going to be Kim Jr's thugs and scientists.
Clever move by the Norks - they 'accidentally' release their linux to the world, tricking 'despised western capitalists' into doing the security analysis work for them. They also get to appreciate the irony of the same 'despised western capitalists' turning into communists by doing the work for free. ;-)
US security researchers better look out as Uncle Sam might decide that you're breaking sanctions by helping the regime. :-(
Yeah, also funny is HOW a twerp like him, can organize his nation into Linux users .... Hope they keep the security vuln's up, they are so insular, they will ...
HOWEVER, if UK, Europe, Australian Governments, Made a Linux dist standard @ all Schools & Uni, in a few years, NO MORE MS royalties, wonder how much that would save TAXPAYERS, BANKS, Business in General ?
"....HOWEVER, if UK, Europe, Australian Governments, Made a Linux dist standard @ all Schools & Uni, in a few years, NO MORE MS royalties, wonder how much that would save TAXPAYERS, BANKS, Business in General ?" I think you'll find that the Penguinistas have been trying to uproot MS from schools for years with very limited success (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linux_Schools_Project for an example). Even leading lights such as the City of Munich have backed off Linux (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/19/munich_dumping_linux_for_windows/).
So schools back off, while MS uses Linux for it's clod drive "Azurb", makes sense, I suppose if you know wheather they receive grants from MS, Like CrApple they infest schools for same reason, Next gen Clients who think it's the only way to do it ....
It amazes me, when I pass a CrApple shop, 50 people in red shirts, helping Crapple owners, lucky they are so easy to use, the advertising said so, & the ones in que waiting, still believe it too ...
That Munich article was clickbait. As well you know
The whole more IT in the curriculum thing would be far better served with Linux in the classroom. Years 1 and 2 cover the user basics and a little theory/history. Then RE-begin the course at 3rd year by having the students roll their own distro. That would sort out the real It techs and give them something to aim for, Free 1st class scholarships if you can hack a major business of gov of your chice...and other prizes for lesser achievements. Then you could give the finger to the 266 or whatever...
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