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Oliver Hotham
Oliver Hotham was an NK News contributor based in Seoul, South Korea. Follow him on Twitter.
In the week running up to the New Year, many were surprised to see what appeared to be an entirely authentic version of North Korea’s famous OS X knock off, Red Star, appear online.
Claiming responsibility for the 2.2g download was a hacker, or hackers, by the name of Slipstream, claiming they had been "pulling data out of DPRK's ass since 2014.” Slipstream further used the download to ask for donations in crypto-currency dogecoin.