Made in China
Europe’s largest hacker Congress of the Chaos Communication Congress held in Hamburg, was presented a tablet computer designed to work in North Korea. According to the resource Motherboard, tablet PC Woolim is designed to limit the visits of the pages of the media, tracks information about the user and can act as a technological propaganda platform policy of the DPRK.
the tablet Runs on the Android OS and with a mind not different from the gadgets colleagues. The hardware manufactured by a Chinese company Hoozo, but Korean developers made changes to the configuration. Removed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and also set a number of their programs.
Tablet Woolim is a modified version of the Chinese model Z100, manufacturer Hoozo. The original gadget is a 10.1-inch screen with a maximum resolution of 1024×600, accelerator Mali400, 512MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal, as well as the budget Quad core CPU Allwinner A33.
the Publication notes that after the DPRK in 2014 was presented with their own OS RedStar OS based on Fedora Linux, a number of nonprofit organizations in the country presented its own design of tablets. As for Woolim, he, apparently, was released later in 2015.
a Tablet for the citizens of North Korea Woolim
Florian Hrunou (Florian Grunow) presented the tablet to the Chaos Communication Congress, explained how he got access to it.
For lessons and rest
as for the installed on the tablet programs, it allows the user to read PDF files (to your device is preinstalled propaganda literature), to watch local TV and connect to North Korean Internet. Recall that available in the DPRK, the network really is the intranet.
a Network of “Qianmen” (Kwangmyong) allows staying on the territory of North Korea foreigners are restricted to use the Internet and make long distance phone calls and local residents to use only local network.
by the Provider-monopolist in the DPRK is the company “Corelink” (Koryolink). The tablet also has apps for learning, including French, Russian and Chinese dictionaries. Another application is for the lessons of the text input from the keyboard. There is tablet games, for example Angry Birds, however, as the newspaper notes, “slightly modified”.
the Tablet will tell
Experts pointed out that the modified Woolim recognizes a limited set of files. When a user tries to open, such, HTML, or text file, the device will check its cryptographic signature. If the file is “not sanctioned”, it will not open.
as an example, experts have downloaded to the tablet .APK file from a third party. It opens. In addition, Woolim following the users. Every time the owner of the tablet opens an application, the device makes a screenshot. The screenshots are saved, cannot be deleted. As for the cost of the gadget, the experts noted that such hardware from the Chinese manufacturer is 160-200 euros. In North Korea it is a bit expensive. Thus, the gadget is designed for affluent consumers.
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