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Interesting writeup about the Pyongyang 2423, an Android phone common in NK: https://www.dailynk.com/english/a-look-inside-north-koreas-latest-smartphone-the-py

Interesting writeup about the Pyongyang 2423, an Android phone common in NK: https://www.dailynk.com/english/a-look-inside-north-koreas-latest-smartphone-the-pyongyang-2423/ https://www.dailynk.com/english/a-look-inside-north-koreas-l... Amazing to think about how much an "open source" initiative like Android can be manipulated by a totalitarian regime.

grishka 4y ago
> When using a separate SD card, the user is asked to select between “use as a memory card” or “use as internal memory.” If the user chooses “use as internal memory,” it then requests initialization of the SD card so that it can only be used on the current phone. When “use as a memory card” is selected, initialization is not required but folder access is blocked. This sounds suspiciously like Android's "adoptable storage", except the folder access part. But meh, they got the thing, but didn't do any kind of technical analysis on it? Didn't dump the ROM for everyone curious to poke at? How so? The article itself, too, is almost annoyingly un-technical.