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North Korean operating system is a surveillance state's tour de force

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Anonymous Coward

"Perhaps a cyber warfare opportunity to introduce malware which randomly inserts such strings into random critical files?"

Welcome to 1998:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_%28computer_virus%29

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