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It's not at all hard to imagine, especially from a country who is so paranoid about backdoors from other country's operating systems that they have written thei
by briatx 8y ago
It's not at all hard to imagine, especially from a country who is so paranoid about backdoors from other country's operating systems that they have written their own:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system)
- matwood 8y ago“You only look behind the door if you have stood there yourself.”
- sho_hn 8y agoThis is a Linux distro, not "their own OS". Many countries all over the world have had government-subsidized Linux distro projects, at national, state and city government levels. It's something that happens pretty quickly whenever and whereever a large deployment happens (e.g. LiMux). For that matter, many a CS faculty at many a university have actually created their own OS. Nothing too sensational either.
- briatx 8y agoPedantry aside, it is the reasoning behind building their own OS distro that is relevant here: > In 2009, a report presented to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission stated that the purpose of Kylin is to make Chinese computers impenetrable to competing countries in the cyberwarfare arena. The Washington Post reported that: > China has developed more secure operating software for its tens of millions of computers and is already installing it on government and military systems, hoping to make Beijing’s networks impenetrable to U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
- sho_hn 8y agoSounds perfectly sensible, rather than "paranoid".
- clear_dg 8y agoParanoid like Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Venezuela, Thailand, Turkey, etc...? They all have Linux distros, sponsored nationally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:State-sponsored_Linux_distributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:State-sponsored_Linux...