In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance

[k_buddy762]

https://www.techspot.com/news/108156-north-korean-smartphone-secretly-takes-screenshot-every-5.html

The big picture: A smartphone smuggled out of North Korea is offering a rare – and unsettling – glimpse into the extent of control Kim Jong Un's regime exerts over its citizens, down to the very words they type. While the device appears outwardly similar to any modern smartphone, its software reveals a far more oppressive reality.

The phone was featured in a BBC video, which showed it powering on with an animated North Korean flag waving across the screen. While the report did not specify the brand, the design and user interface closely resembled those of a Huawei or Honor device.

[Jim__]

1. We have to rid ourselves of Trump, right now. Kim Jong Un is one of his heroes.

[Wonder Why]

2. Google and everyone else who writes an app, do it for us!

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[taxi]

3. Wow, they really are far behind.

Some operating system software does it every few seconds for us.

[hunter]

4. How many people in North Korea have smart phones?

Here in the U.S.A. it seems everyone has cars and smart phones spying on them.

The North Koreans haven't figured out the more subtle and effective forms of oppression. They go after everyone who speaks ill of their great leader.

Here in the U.S.A. we are free to say anything we like against the government so long as it is inconsequential.

[taxi]

5. +1 ... the more subtle and effective forms of oppression

Well said.