Chinese Military To Replace Windows OS Amid Fears of US Hacking

'Amidst an escalating trade war and political tensions with the US,
Beijing officials have decided to develop a custom operating system
that will replace the Windows OS on computers used by the Chinese
military. From a report:

The decision, while not made official through the government's normal
press channels, was reported earlier this month by Canada-based
military magazine Kanwa Asian Defence. Per the magazine, Chinese
military officials won't be jumping ship from Windows to Linux but
will develop a custom OS. Thanks to the Snowden, Shadow Brokers, and
Vault7 leaks, Beijing officials are well aware of the US' hefty
arsenal of hacking tools, available for anything from smart TVs to
Linux servers, and from routers to common desktop operating systems,
such as Windows and Mac. Since these leaks have revealed that the US
can hack into almost anything, the Chinese government's plan is to
adopt a "security by obscurity" approach and run a custom operating
system that will make it harder for foreign threat actors -- mainly
the US -- to spy on Chinese military operations.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/05/28/1613221

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-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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