Woolim – Lifting the Fog on DPRK’s Latest Tablet PC [video]
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I've just skimmed it, but:
The talk describes what is really an extreme form of DRM, the tablet can only open media created and signed by the government or media created and self-signed on the tablet.
Users can't exchange files, if they try the signature check fails.
It's very similar to what they presented last year on RedStar OS, but this seems to be taking it to even greater extremes.
In RedStar OS you could transfer files, but they'd get watermarked. In someways that's even scarier, because they can log ever user who touched the file.
Really very interesting, it will be fascinating to see how this progresses (as well as terrifying).
Yes, they can, but the OS appends a watermark to each file when it is exported, so every file carries with it a record of who exported it and in what order. That allows the government, when it gets a copy of a shared file, to track back exactly who gave it to whom.
> terrifying
Indeed.
Seriously, you didn't read/listen to the article, and you didn't read the parent comment. This sort of comment etiquette is unacceptable on YC
I feel that the above statement is more applicable to your comment, than to the comment you were talking about. I would like to politely suggest silently downvoting a comment that is factually incorrect, instead of going on a rant about comment etiquette.
We're all human and we all make mistakes. Angry outbursts like yours are more toxic to a community than having an occasional user be negligent and fail to fact-check their comment.
The solution to media content distribution looks a lot like what companies in the United States have tried again and again to do, but have failed - with perhaps the recent exception of smart phone and tablet devices.
Another trick the DPRK might consider is making much of their software a service and requiring always-on connectivity to use the application in question. This not only restricts what a user can do, but it also allows the 'stewart' body to track usage, collect metadata and a number of other useful bits for state security. Often, the use of the app can be track to a geolocation.
Ah. It's that time the the year. CCC. Ze Germans.
I'm also not a native speaker of English (I'm Swedish).. but I know my limits. If I would want to communicate something to the rest of the world, I would put it on the web. In text and images.
German people tend to be decent-to-quite good good at writing English - and kind of bad at speaking it, to be honest. This guy is one of the better, I have to say. The video format is still annoying though, because of its linear format.
Please: CCC speakers with brilliant and interesting topics that you know will interest the global community: Put up an English language blog post!
Also not all are Germans. I mean, it's a conference in Germany, so the audience obviously has a large German part, but there are lots of people and speakers from other countries as well.
But yes, even as a German myself the Denglish (German-English) accent can be plenty annoying.
The CCC is a super-cheap conference. It costs 100Euro (about 100USD currently?) to attend a 4 day conference.
The venue is massive, and roughly 13,000 people attend. There are often 3 or 4 talks going on at the same time. The talks are among the most technically interesting available anywhere.
In top of that, they have areas where people can hack on group projects, and the venue is open 24hours during the conference (some people even crash there over night).
This is all run on a largely volunteer basis. And in my view to a very professional standard.
Someone screwing up and delaying one talk seems pretty insignificant in light of the amazing work they do.