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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Dora Scilipoti <dora> 14/04/13 14:17:27
Added files:
philosophy : malware-apple.html malware-kindle-swindle.html
malware-microsoft.html malware-mobiles.html
Log message:
Add initial version of new series of pages malware-*html (RT #902783).
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/malware-apple.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/malware-kindle-swindle.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/malware-microsoft.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/malware-mobiles.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: malware-apple.html
===================================================================
RCS file: malware-apple.html
diff -N malware-apple.html
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ malware-apple.html 13 Apr 2014 14:17:26 -0000 1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<title>Apple's Software is Malware
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Apple's Software is Malware</h2>
+
+<p>Here's why Apple's software is malware.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><p>The iPhone has a back door <a
+
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358134/Apples-Jobs-confirms-iPhone-kill-switch.html";>
+ that allows Apple to remotely delete apps</a> which Apple considers
+ “inappropriate”. Jobs said it's OK for Apple to have this power
+ because of course we can trust Apple.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
+
href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-yo.html";>
+ iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is a jail.</a> Apple has
+ used its power to <a
+ href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html";>
+ censor all bitcoin apps</a> for the iThings.</p>
+
+ <p>Here is an article about the <a
+ href="http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2008/03/07/code-signing-and-you/";>
+ code signing</a> that the iThings use to lock up the user.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>The Apple iThings are tyrant devices. There is a port of Android
+ to the iThings, but installing it requires <a
+ href="http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Status";> finding a bug or
+ “exploit”</a> to make it possible to install a different
+ system.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/11/apple-downgrades-macbook-video-drm";>
+ DRM in MacOS</a>. This article focuses on the fact that a new model of
+ Macbook introduced a requirement for monitors to have malicious
+ hardware, but DRM software in MacOS is involved in activating the
+ hardware. The software for accessing iTunes is also responsible.</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>These malicious aspects should be no surprise. This is proprietary
+software, and it is quite common for a proprietary program to be malware.
+Only <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a> respects users'
+freedom and community.</p>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+ <address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2014/04/13 14:17:26 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
Index: malware-kindle-swindle.html
===================================================================
RCS file: malware-kindle-swindle.html
diff -N malware-kindle-swindle.html
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ malware-kindle-swindle.html 13 Apr 2014 14:17:26 -0000 1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<title>Malware in the Kindle Swindle
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Malware in the Kindle Swindle</h2>
+
+<p>We refer to this product as the
+<a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Amazon Swindle</a>
+because it has <a href="/philosophy/proprietary-drm.html">Digital restrictions
+management</a> (<acronym>DRM</acronym>) and <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">
+other malicious functionalities</a>.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><p>The Amazon Kindle has a back door that has been used to <a
+
href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/";>
+ remotely erase books</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a href="http://science.opposingviews.com/kindle-drm-17841.html";>
+ The Amazon Kindle has DRM</a>. That article is flawed in that it
+ fails to treat DRM as an ethical question; it takes for granted that
+ whatever Amazon might do to its users is legitimate. It refers to DRM
+ as digital “rights” management, which is the spin term
+ used to promote DRM. Nonetheless it serves as a reference for the
+ facts.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>Spyware in many e-readers—not only the Kindle: <a
+ href="https://www.eff.org/pages/reader-privacy-chart-2012";>they report even
+ which page the user reads at what time</a>.</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+ <address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2014/04/13 14:17:26 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
Index: malware-microsoft.html
===================================================================
RCS file: malware-microsoft.html
diff -N malware-microsoft.html
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ malware-microsoft.html 13 Apr 2014 14:17:27 -0000 1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<title>Microsoft's Software Is Malware
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Microsoft's Software is Malware</h2>
+
+<p>Here are some examples of demonstrated malicious functionalities in
+Microsoft's proprietary software.</p>
+
+
+<ul>
+ <li><p>Microsoft Windows has a universal back door through which <a
+
href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201806263";>
+ any change whatsoever can be imposed on the users</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>More information on when <a
+ href="http://slated.org/windows_by_stealth_the_updates_you_dont_want";>
+ this was used</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>Windows 8's back doors are so gaping that <a
+
href="http://drleonardcoldwell.com/2013/08/23/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-linked-to-nsa/";>
+ the German government has decided it can't be trusted</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
+
href="http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/301057/microsoft-metro-app-store-lockdown";>
+ Windows 8 on “mobile devices” is a jail.</a></p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a href="http://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/";>
+ Mobile devices that come with Windows 8 are tyrants.</a></p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/08/aacs-tentacles/";>
+ DRM in Windows</a>, introduced to cater to <a href="#bluray">Bluray</a>
+ disks. (The article talks about how the same malware would later be
+ introduced in MacOS. That had not been done at the time, but it was done
+ subsequently.)</p></li>
+
+ <li>Spyware in Windows: <a
+ href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/28/windows_update_keeps_tabs/";>
+ Windows Update snoops on the user.</a>
+ <a
+
href="https://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/look-the-black-underbelly-of-windows-81-blue-222175";>
+ Windows 8.1 snoops on local searches.</a> And there's a
+ <a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40836.html";>
+ secret NSA key in Windows</a>, whose functions we don't know.</li>
+
+ <li><p><a
+
href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/06/how-can-any-company-ever-trust-microsoft-again/index.htm";>
+ Microsoft informs the NSA of bugs in Windows before fixing them.</a></p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
+
href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/credit-card-fraud-comes-of-age-with-first-known-point-of-sale-botnet/";>
+ Point-of-sale terminals running Windows were taken over and turned into a
+ botnet for the purpose of collecting customers' credit card
+ numbers</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
+
href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/04/windows-xp-end-of-an-era-end-of-an-error/index.htm";>
+ Microsoft cut off security fixes for Windows XP, except to some big users
+ that pay exorbitantly.</a></p>
+
+ <p>I think a person or company has the right to cease to work on a
+ particular program; the wrong here is Microsoft does this after having
+ made the users dependent on Microsoft, so they are not free to ask
+ someone else to work on the program for them.</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>These malicious aspects should be no surprise. This is proprietary
+software, and it is quite common for a proprietary program to be malware.
+Only <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a> respects users'
+freedom and community.</p>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+ <address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2014/04/13 14:17:27 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
Index: malware-mobiles.html
===================================================================
RCS file: malware-mobiles.html
diff -N malware-mobiles.html
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ malware-mobiles.html 13 Apr 2014 14:17:27 -0000 1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<title>Malware in Mobile Devices
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Malware in Mobile Devices</h2>
+
+<p>Mobile devices often contain malware. Here are some examples.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><p>Portable phones with GPS will send their GPS location on remote
+ command and users cannot stop them: <a
+
href="http://www.aclu.org/government-location-tracking-cell-phones-gps-devices-and-license-plate-readers";>
+
http://www.aclu.org/government-location-tracking-cell-phones-gps-devices-and-license-plate-readers</a>.
+ (The US says it will eventually require all new portable phones to have
+ GPS.)</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>Most mobile phones have a universal back door, which has been used to
+ <a
href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/22/nsa_can_reportedly_track_cellphones_even_when_they_re_turned_off.html";>
+ turn them malicious</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/replicant-developers-find-and-close-samsung-galaxy-backdoor";>
+ Samsung Galaxy devices running proprietary Android versions come with a back
+ door</a> that provides remote access to the data stored on the
device.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html";>
+ The NSA can tap data in smart phones, including iPhones, Android, and
+ BlackBerry</a>. While there is not much detail here, it seems that this
+ does not operate via the universal back door that we know nearly all
+ portable phones have. It may involve exploiting various bugs. There are
+ <a
href="http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone";>
+ lots of bugs in the phones' radio software</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>Spyware in Cisco TNP IP phones: <a
+ href="http://boingboing.net/2012/12/29/your-cisco-phone-is-listening.html";>
+
http://boingboing.net/2012/12/29/your-cisco-phone-is-listening.html</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>Spyware in Android phones (and Windows? laptops): The Wall Street
+ Journal (in an article blocked from us by a paywall) reports that
+ <a
href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4580718/fbi-can-remotely-activate-android-and-laptop-microphones-reports-wsj";>
+ the FBI can remotely activate the GPS and microphone in Android phones and
+ laptops</a>. (I suspect this means Windows laptops.) Here is <a
+ href="http://cryptome.org/2013/08/fbi-hackers.htm";>more info</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
href="http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/04/unlocking-motorola-bootloader.html";>
+ Some Android phones are tyrants</a> (though someone found a way to crack
+ the restriction). Fortunately, most Android devices are not tyrants.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a href="http://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/";>
+ Mobile devices that come with Windows 8 are tyrants</a>. <a
+
href="http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/301057/microsoft-metro-app-store-lockdown";>
+ Windows 8 on “mobile devices” is a jail.</a></p></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+ <address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2014/04/13 14:17:27 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
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