technology
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
The hacker Congress 31C3, a professor from Pyongyang shows the high-tech world in North Korea. It consists in the communist country mainly because of two alleged productions: For an expensive intranet Smartphone comes a tablet with telescopic antenna and questionable apps .
North Korea and high tech are two words that fit more bad than good in an equation. It can change very little even all the fuss about the Sony hack, finally broke shortly thereafter throughout the country the Internet together. Despite this, or perhaps because half the world wonders: What’s happening actually IT technology in the realm of “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong Un? . The answer has Will Scott
The lanky computer is at the Chaos Communication Congress 31C3 in Hamburg an attraction in itself: Scott is a professor at the Pyongyang University, its students coming spearhead the North Korean IT industry. At the other end of the world the huge convention hall is bursting at the seams. Chill each of hacker present will hear Scott’s review
Scott keeps his personal opinion behind the mountain and lets the facts speak for themselves -. The murmur of the audience makes superfluous anyway each classification. As a foreigner, he has during his stays true access to the Internet, but dispenses with mobile network. Around 120 euros for a monthly data volume of 50 MB Scott then too steep.
The vast majority of North Koreans have not, however, deal with such luxury problems. Even the handful of privileged upper class who own a computer or a smartphone can access a maximum on the 4000-page Intranet, provided by the regime for fear of the depths of the internet.
“Angry Birds” on North Korean
Speaking of mobile devices: The Communist regime has thrown two equal “in-house developments” on the market last year, that would indicate that it is not dependent on imported technology. Converted to 600 euro costs about loud Scott smartphone “Arirang” to market. The catch: The device resembles the Chinese UNISCOPE like peas in a pod, however, is about six times as expensive. “Still, it’s on Pyongyang’s streets not too unusual sight,” says Scott. The operating system is Android.
More aboutIn addition, the brand new tablet from Kim Jong Un forging technology, but also from the conjectured that it is actually produced in China. The “Samjiyon” is 180 euros, although relatively low, but can miss so pretty much everything that makes up a tablet: instead of Wifi and Bluetooth, the “Samjiyon” features a retractable antenna to receive the three analog channels State. . Users must be content with the 500 pre-installed apps take
What does that mean, Scott shows off as he opens the library: Interested parties can either collected speeches Kim Jong Il read – or “Gone with the Wind”. Almost all other apps copy more or less brash known software from the rest of the world: A “Angry Birds” clone missing just as “Plants vs. Zombies” in the stone age Communist variant
What the North Koreans to own power. missing, they make up for it twice to hubris. Confident emblazoned on the default background tablet two things that Kim Jong Un is particularly proud of launching nuclear missiles and important looking CRT screens. Not only one of the audience wonders at the end, if the thing has really taken its rise from Sony here.
Source: n-tv.de
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