Connecting North Korea's Operating System to the Internet?
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2024
- Connecting the North Korean OS, Red Star to the internet to surf the net, Kim Jong un style.
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Dude, he isn't. He ruined the Windows 98 and XP community forever.
@@susstevedevNo
Really? When.
Low likes 😂😂
@@User-hbcfgukn You have zero like and one dislike
Imagine the NSA flags once they detect someone in the US just connected to the internet using Red Star Linux lmao
or any other countries involved in the Korean War, it would cause a international incident
actually *IS NOT* funny. He is totally F K ED !!!
australia*
Probably not a concern as all government officials use windowsXp Red star is just to keep locals from realizing they're being radicalized
well realistically you cant detect an OS
'Username' is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
This message has a pretty scary meaning in this operating system.
why?
@@televiziya7😂
@@televiziya7 North Korean Dictatorship? Prison camps? Etcetera etcetera?
@@televiziya7 this person obviously doesn't know linux.
Lol i know they feel after install some Linux distro😂😂😂
Imagine if when you opened Google, the browser said "Kim Jong-un wants to know your location"
'Nuclear missle inbound'
He doesn't need to ask, he already knows
💀💀💀
"The supreme leader would like to see you in his office"
Kim jong-un would like to know your location "up your a##"
I'd love to see if there are any odd transmissions in view of wireshark.
True
I actually thought that's what this video was going to be about.
What is views in wireshark?
@@evilchinchula a method of monitoring network traffic/packets.
That would be VERY interesting to see
I find it interesting that they themed it after MacOS. There’s no real reason that would be necessary, but they still spent the time to do it. They must really like the look haha
Apparently Kim likes apple products. Hes been pictured with macs and other things, so he ordered his operating system to look like mac os lol
@@carrot7143 Kinda ironic how a evil person uses products from an evil company
@@crazywarp36 that's not ironic at all
looks like a modified version of mac os tbh
The have a ton of mock things from all around the world. They have their own Eiffel tower. 😅
the only linux distro that actually does the mac os topbar correctly
linux distro creators take note
Why develop an open source OS for proprietary insufficient overpriced hardware🍎? 😂Hobbyist escapade at best but not worth a dev teams investment of resources.
@@Desert-edDave i think you are slightly misunderstanding. All he''s talking about is the top bar.
@@Desert-edDave wat
they don't copy it because it sucks
@@Desert-edDave 1 iq comment
When I was learning Korean at the Defense Language Institute (DLI, military language school), they had us do a presentation about something related to North Korean technology, weapons/military, or politics, and I made mine on the Red Star/붉은별 OS. It was quite fascinating, and it's really cool to see it in action.
This version is actually red star 3.0. you'll notice that it's very... reminiscent of MacOS. This is very intentional, because Kim Jong Un is _very_ a big fan of macs. Version 1.0 and 2.0 are very reminiscent of windows 98 and windows XP, reflecting the time in which they were made. There is a 4.0 version which iirc was released in 2019, which follows the mac appearance of 3.0, this time with a deep blue hue, however afik not much is actually known about it besides what it looks like.
That's sick wtf.
Kim jon un likes macs and big macs
@@gotrickrolledyeah u cant blame a man for enjoying thousand island dressing
What is your Korean level
@@FollowTheTrend-be6qj I got a 2+R 2L 1+s
There are also redstar os 1.0 and 4.0 versions which seem to be unreleased to the internet
1.0 is very old and may be available in some obscure corner of the internet
4.0 was made in 2019 so it probably cant be found anywhere on our internet
Who and how do they leak these OSes?
@@euphoriaagainwhoever leaked these is probably on the run rn
@@18rocksthegames78 I haven't gone into it but a quick search told me it was some guy buying a copy whilst in North Korea and then leaking it (there's actually a Reddit post with a torrent link to it from 2014 which might be his since the date checks out). No idea what happened after that though.
i'm sure someone, somewhere is like "challenge accepted"
@@euphoriaagain the guy who leaked this build was also the nintendo "gigaleaker", zammis clark. used to be a malwarebytes employee. have no clue how though lol
credit where credit is due, the OS X skin they applied to KDE is genuinely impressive and quite visually pleasing, can see why people in NK who were fortunate enough to have a computer would have installed this coming from XP, which was dominant at the time of Red Star 3's release
in a way I wouldn't mind somebody porting the UI to modern linux just without al the spyware and suff
Uhh I have to disagree. NoKor OS looks like a puke, the icons are mostly green. Even at the time there were beautiful MacOS clones of Linux.. LinuxMint, OpenSuse, and Ubuntu were goodlooking too
@@notamoonraker this just sounds like you don't like the colour green lol. It's my personal favourite so I'm not fussed.
@@lucymorrison I mean there are beautiful Linux distros even back then. Red Star 3 just looks like a sinister copy of MacOS.
From what I know, trusted North Korean communities such as certain government agencies and _very_ privileged students or scientific bureaux actually just use Windows like any other country. Rumour has it that it's even properly licensed using foreign bank accounts, or at least was at one time when they had more money.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if North Korea's government IT estate was exactly the same as what you'd see in the West.
There has been plenty of Dell and HP computer equipment seen in official photos and used in various settings. ISC(2) has a number of officially registered CISSP holders in North Korea and Valve's Steam heatmap has a few dots in Pyongyang.
As for location options:
Japan has at least 1, possibly a couple, small area(s)/cit(-y)(-ies) that is/are loyal to North Korea
So maybe Japanese is for them
As for Yakutsk
Russia is connected to the DPRK via the "Friendship bridge", which only certain officials are allowed to cross, but it CAN be crossed
Actually, the system doesn't only have 4 time zones, if you click on Europe for example, you have the options for the GMT+1 timezone like Berlin or Prague
How do you know that
@@incrxdible9896 google
@@incrxdible9896 i have some info in my brains
@@incrxdible9896 The ISO has been leaked, so the same way he Eric got it?
I had no clue North Korea had an OS of its own, but why am I surprised. Anyways, great video! Windows Vista next?
Vista /7 (in 24 hours of my own testing) will not get infected purely by being exposed to the internet, although there are known exploits. I might make a video testing some of those.
@@EricParker please do
@@EricParker Yes please!
Hey , what happens if you disable firewall , does it have an impact. @@EricParker
@@underdoq2Yes it does have a lot of impact. He usually disables firewall according to his previous videos.
Bro is about to test the Patriot Act 💀
Leave zoomer
@@JM-mg4el dial8
I’m new to your channel but I really enjoy everything you upload! Been on a binge, not many people explore such interesting computer science type topics without it being absolute slop. I hope your channel gets more exposure in the future. It’s truly one of the greats:)
The fact that the North Korean OS has less data tracking and built in spyware than modern Windows 11 is concerning
silly and innocent
Glad to see more people messing around with Red Star OS. Also you can run newer versions of firefox on it. the latest I got running natively was 18. Though I got (iirc) 47 to run properly using Wine. It's a fun OS to mess with. I need to make more guides and stuff for the OS. I took a pause on it because I am going from messing with it in a VM to the most insane thing I can do.
Messing with it on hardware.
Cant wait
Airgapped?
@@jlco of course. Until I know it's safe then it's going on a heavily secured and monitored network. Just like the VM I worked on
someone get this video's instructions to someone in north korea NOW
The main blocker is the fact you can't get Global internet in NK (a few people do it get it as a privilege). I'm honestly not sure why they put those blocks in their.
Old versions of windows are also quite common in NK.
@@EricParker north Korea is extremely locked down
A regular person being able to view the outside world from the internet would interfere with the propaganda the government is distributing
@@EricParkerYou can do it on their 3g network for tourists. From what I read they sell Sim cards there on black market. (But one costs ~$1000, so only 1% of North Koreans can realistically afford it)
@@jackwilson5542 way less than 1%
Also the government would torture and kill you for giving secret outside world info to North Koreans
@@EricParkerThey put those blocks in there to basically avoid anyone reaching in or out of their cyberspace. I’ll give China that, at *least* you can access shit externally easier than you can with NK, lol
it sounds like youre american and british at the same time its tripping me out
true
Linux user accent
American British? 🤔 That would be Canadian 😄. They also hold the title American French thanks to Quebec.
Yeah the dude definitely spent time in both countries.
@@PolizeiPaul I've never heard a Canadian referred to as American _anything_
I've heard "french canadian" used as a pejorative daily though, understandably
Man youre so underrated. Keep up the awesome content. such a nerd for your malware analysis type videos.
The fact you even have this OS is impressive all things considered.
This is the older version, there is a new one yet to leak
@@tezcanaslan2877 Still impressed when you consider how hard North Korea has isolated itself from the rest of the world.
@@tezcanaslan2877 there are 4 major versions
2.0 and 3.0 are available online
1.0 is super old, doesn't seem to be on the internet, but it may perhaps be possible to track it down somewhere
4.0 is modern (2019) so no shotsl we'll get our hands on it
@@SOU6900 They are actually not as isolated as you think, they are (rumored to do) quite a bit of western animation, they do have quite few websites that you can visit on the open web, and they broadcast TV and shortwave internationally.
Isn't it on internet archive
69 missed calls from Kim Jong Un
Is there a way to extract the KDE theme out of Red Star and then deploy it on a regular distro running KDE? I love the old Mac style and I haven't seen a better implementation of it.
I dunno, sounds plausible, I though about trying to do that myself.
Been seeing most of you're stuff in my recommended. Watched every single one.
The Japan and Yakutsk options make sense in the time zone options, seeing as they have Chongryon in Japan and a number of lumber work camps in Siberia.
I'm loving these videos so much, keep them coming!
The time zone thing during set up is because North Korea actually has schools in Japan and has labor camps in Russia so that could probably explain why those are the only options for time zones
Takes me back to the rogueamp days, thanks for giving us the content, great stuff 👍
I love niche content like this, subbed!
For people thinking why he pronouncing Internet as Intranet….they both are actually different. An intranet is a private network that only employees of an organization can access.
7:14 Application menu changed to English; 7:19 everything changed to English; 7:20 one line of Korean; 10:40 Korean text displayed in browser; 10:42 everything switched back to Korean.
wait why does it do that??
@@zeenxdownz my guess is it's not made the best and it bugs to English on some apps
@@SpaceSoldier248 The whole system changed. Could it be that the OS can be remote controlled?
I saw another presentation about this OS. Apparently parts of it do rollback settings changes or force a reboot if you tamper with them, so maybe that's what's happening.
Far more likely to just be a buggy mess though.
@@halfbakedproductions7887 Oh makes sense
2:25 beginner's error, it's based on fedora not debian 😭fedora would use dnf or yum
If it’s based on an older version of fedora then it would’ve have yum, which is not present
@@42yeah it does have yum. look at 4:37
I don’t speak linuxeneese can someone tell me what a dnf is
@@ZZxlizrx the package manager that fedora uses. dnf on Fedora is like apt on Ubuntu
You have to speak Windows Herpa Derpa...yum, apt, dnf and Pacman are commands comparable to your PlayStore or your Windows store. To download apps and stuff.
yo ive discovered your page recently, you make nice videos! keep it up
Hey, Mental Outlow made a video about Red Os, you can find there how he changes language and some other things, also there is 1 ~ h video called defoging red os, where they present how system works in core.
Also can you listen to outgoing packets in this system so you can see what they send.
you take our intrusive thoughts and just do them. i love this channel lol
Great content, fresh ideas, and the host is very erudite in the content. Kudos! I just subscribed!☠
this is cool. Man you're growing hell yes.!!!
love the sudo prompt "#1) respect the privacy of others." seems like an oversight for me to not remove that part as DPKR haha
I'm genuinely curious, are you an American with British parents or something? Your accent isn't American, British, Australian, Kiwi, or South African. It sounds like a combination of American and London English, with a hint of Melbourne.
I hear all of those too!
This
Lol I was thinking exactly the same when watching some of his other videos, it's mostly american, but certain words have a clear british pronunciation to them
I would say he's not from USA
He is just trying to sound like The PC Security Channel
Interested in it's 3d acceleration and sound capabilities. Is this OS gaming?
6:43 alternative Excel worked just fine, when you apply format to the rows, they just apply the same formula, that is to square the cell right above itself, it will of course overflow quickly
2:48 the spiderman reference, lol
Soft power is real.
Well, if Eric no longer posts anything after this video, we will know why.
When did you last use Excel on macOS? It hasn't looked close to this for years. Loved the video! That was really interesting,
One thing to know is one is connected to their internal network. It will constantly keep trying to pull the latest configuration so it will reset anything you unblock.
Oh my, Red Star OS is in Frutiger Aero era hello?
You listened to us from the 2000 video :) thanks so much
Like the theme - made to look like older Mac OS X's. Is it available for "western world" Linuxes? I'd love to have it :)
*Types*
"How.. to overthrow the North Korean Government...."
I am wondering how you even expose these VMs and isolate your home network from it. My idea was you somehow put it in DMZ and use VLANs to isolate it, but I don't know. Hope you make a how-to vid on how to replicate your setup.
I have no idea what your talking about or how you do all this but im entertained!
Imagine if they find out that someone is using their OS on the other side of the planet.
watching this high af and being amazed while understanding nothing is truly a life-changing experience man, subscribed.
UI design is actually well made
this was a very interesting youtube video, loved it. keep it up 👍
It was some interesting inside of their OS!
Thanks for the video!
The UI is looking really good!
ok Kim, Now get outa here!
A mac rip off
It does look good if you go back to the 90s
I like the fact that the OS itself is kinda good, like you could daily drive it because it's nice it's aesthetic, looks stable...
But because it's region locked it makes it bad.
Would be great if we had an lock fred iso.
I imagine its kinda like when you're working on a heavily managed work computer.
@@zlcoolboy probably but it looks hard to do
You did Windows 2k, but any chance to get NT4 or 3.51 on the internet for another security through obscurity challenge?
7:50 Grab was the then-current macOS screenshot tool. The North Korean one seems to be a menu-bar-operated application, in a typical confusing macOS fashion.
Fun fact: yeah, red star os descends from fedora which is based on red hat os, so you're actually kinda right
I agree, I guess we take for granted a trusted CA store being loaded automatically
can always just download one on an insecure connection ;0
Fascinating. Thanks for walking us though 붉은별!
What virtual machine software are you using?
They should have timezones for countries they have embassy in.
2:30 " #3) With great power comes great responsibility." Someone in North Korea really accidentally referenced Spider Man lmao
It’s actually in the sudo package
That's just sudo doing sudo things
what distro do you use? i think of switching
Had no idea they have their own distro. I remember seeing them use XP in multiple documentaries throught they just stuck with that since its not like they can get infected on civilian PCs with no internet access anyway.
"hello buddy" is a good intro :3
I just read the comment on the windows 2000 video of someone telling you to try red star os. I refresh to home page and wah lah
*voilà
Green theme like in the Matrix 😮 Thank you for showing us RedStar OS.
Very cool, and it makes me wonder what kind of hardware they typically use.
*2 day later* FBI : OPEN UP
why the fbi?
No reason for that
?
There's no reason for it.
0:30 Dark fact regarding the time zone. The reason why Yakutsk, Russia is on there is because there are North Korean Officials who lives there. It’s an East Siberian City where DPRK and Putin made deals sending Korean slave labor to those lodging camps in Russia.
Where;d you download the os from?
if you wanna disable or enable a service you go - sudo systemctl start (service-name) or sudo systemctl stop (service-name) or sudo systemctl restart (service-name)
Does this mean North Koreans could also get to google safely with this method?
Sadly no. Even if one does what he did (which was ridiculously easy, all things considered), they still don’t have any access to the greater, global internet. They have their own, smaller intranet that is self-contained and entirely controlled by the government.
@@AwesomeCaden73unless they are on borders with china.
Only if they can access the internet.
All jokes aside can it run doom
That seems like a really old firefox version, I mean that error message looks like firefox from like 10 years ago( I don't remember exactly but I knew on older firefox it looked that way)
How did you keep the video going during the reboot? Is this a virtual machine?
Yup, this is a virtual machine.
Even just the mere existence of this video at all begs the question of whether all the infamous "north korean hackers" that show up in the news from time to time are actually north korean in origin, or are actually people elsewhere who've exploited vulnerabilities in NK infrastructure.
i dont think NK hackers would use this themself.
NK hakers craft this kind of OS.
@@bibabeatmannor if its state sponsored hackers, given their own (probably still heavily monitored) OS
@@Stampyboyzi highly doubt this os can be usable for anything outside of NK, so the tech guys in NK army need to be trusted people i assume since even with this OS, you can’t catch someone on linux who doesn’t want to be caught
"Binary compatibility isn't great on Linux". An RPM isn't a binary, its literally a tgz file. And literally any binary compiled for Linux in the past 15ish years can be run by any distro.
> RPM isn't a binary, its literally a tgz file
...containing pre-compiled binaries.
> literally any binary compiled for Linux in the past 15ish
...as long as it's not linking against a library that breaks ABI, which even the damn libc is guilty of.
Wrong. A x86 compiled binary can't Run on a arm system and vise versa.
LITERALLY LITERALLY LITERALLY LITERALLY
@@electricz3045 that goes for anything compiled. He's obviously on the same architecture.
But the binaries are i386 (32-bit). He's probably on amd64 (64-bit)
This actually looks really cool, are there any translated versions that don't have censorships?
A Chinese version would also do.
Check Deepin instead, it has no censorship and a similar Mac-like theme
@@My_Old_YT_Account Thanks
I like how the videos end abruptly
Your voice/intonation kinda sounds like Tristan Tate lmao
"I can see them excluding south korea"
Because it's the same time zone? 💀
Its not
so are osaka and tokyo yet they have different entries in the timezones
Eric is that one guy who browse the internet with Red Star OS but end up navigating through a maze of security features
Looks quite nice honestly especally as a mass user OS
yes
what if i install this on school pc
Theres less spyware atleast
Your beloved school start turning red, people begin calling each other comrades.
i saw a brazilian youtuber examine this OS once, he tried to check some regular websites as well as his own website but they kept getting blocked, some people were joking that the next day he would be found on a river with 50 shots of an AK47
Hi
Would you be able to put one of these operating system instances on crowdsec?
if you ever get stuck in north korea, remember this video exists
wow north korea using ubuntu for their system honestly mid
Looked more like red hat, that was just the name of the iso
it's red hat/fedora based i think
Where did you find this os?
It's not the binary compatability, it's the library versions, linked against old versions. But you can just install the updated version, or use an old system like old debian.
Is this just a Mac ripoff?
It's a Linux-based system customised to look like MacOS.
@@itsentdev so Yes?
@@_GhostMiner as MacOS is a rip-off of FreeBSD, it doesn't matter.
it's intra-net not in-trannit
What kind of IT would this be considered? Sorry if it's a confusing question, but I'm not knowledgeable about this stuff. Would this be considered networking or something?
I’ve seen videos of North Korean libraries where the computers still ran windows XP. Maybe the EXE is for installing for those systems
Why you pronounce intranet like thzt, it's intra-net