Naenara_(browser)

Naenara (browser)

Naenara (browser)

Official web browser of North Korea

Naenara is a North Korean intranet web browser software developed by the Korea Computer Center for use of the national Kwangmyong intranet. It is developed from a version of Mozilla Firefox and is distributed with the Linux-based operating system Red Star OS that North Korea developed due to licensing and security issues with Microsoft Windows.[3]

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Design

Naenara is a modified version of Mozilla Firefox.[4] Red Star OS and Naenara were developed by the Korea Computer Center that states on its web page that it seeks to develop Linux-based software for use.[5]

Naenara can be used to browse approximately 1,000 to 5,500 websites in the national Kwangmyong intranet.[6]

When Naenara is run, it tries to contact an IP address at http://10.76.1.11/.[1] The default search engine for the browser is Google Korea.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Hansen, Robert (8 January 2015). "North Korea's Naenara Web Browser: It's Weirder Than We Thought". blog.whitehatsec.com. Archived from the original on 15 December 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
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    Owen Williams (8 January 2015). "Hands on with North Korea's homegrown operating system, Red Star". thenextweb.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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    Bernhard Seliger; Stefan Schmidt (4 April 2014). The Hermit Kingdom Goes Online: Information Technology, Internet Use and Communication Policy in North Korea. McFarland. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4766-1770-1.
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    Talmadge, Eric. "Walls surround N. Korea's web users". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Korea Computer Center". Korea Computer Center. 2014. Archived from the original on 31 December 2014.
  6. [6]
    Matthew Sparkes (23 December 2014). "Internet in North Korea: everything you need to know". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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