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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    The last information i found is from 2015 (the one that looks like MacOS). There are no direct backdoors on the installation medium, although it is trivial to deliver one with software updates since the repositories are under state control. What has been found is a mechanism that attached the hardware id of the pc to any file that is opened, allowing to trace through which hands a file has gone. there was also an "anti-virus" that is a censoring mechanism, deleting files with predefined content.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Wouldn’t you need to modify the filesystem type to associate this type of tracking data with a file?

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    Wasn't there also a "kill-switch" that reported to the government when you tried to tinker with the OS too much or something?