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<h2>Ubuntu je Å¡pijunski softver: Å to uÄiniti?</h2>
<p>napisao <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></p>
@@ -213,7 +220,7 @@
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Vrijeme zadnje izmjene:
-$Date: 2014/03/14 05:42:23 $
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<h2>à´à´¬à´£àµà´àµ à´à´¾à´°à´ªàµà´ªà´£à´¿ à´àµà´¯àµà´¯àµà´¨àµà´¨
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href="http://www.stallman.org/";>റിà´àµà´à´¾à´°àµâà´¡àµ
à´¸àµà´±àµà´±à´¾à´³àµâമനàµâ</a></p>
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-$Date: 2014/03/25 04:31:03 $
+$Date: 2014/06/01 16:59:31 $
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+<!-- Parent-Version: <span
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+<title>Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
+ - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/ubuntu-spyware.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?</h2>
+
+<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard
Stallman</a></p>
+
+<p>One of the major advantages of free software is that the community
+ protects users from malicious software. Now
+ Ubuntu <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html"> GNU/Linux </a> has
become
+ a counterexample. What should we do?</p>
+
+<p>Proprietary software is associated with malicious treatment of the
user:
+ surveillance code, digital handcuffs (DRM or Digital Restrictions
+ Management) to restrict users, and back doors that can do nasty things
+ under remote control. Programs that do any of these things are
+ malware and should be treated as such. Widely used examples include
+ Windows, the iThings, and the Amazon “Kindle” product for
virtual book
+ burning, which do all three; Macintosh and the Playstation III which
+ impose DRM; most portable phones, which do spying and have back doors;
+ Adobe Flash Player, which does spying and enforces DRM; and plenty of
+ apps for iThings and Android, which are guilty of one or more of these
+ nasty practices.</p>
+
+<p>Free software gives users a chance to protect themselves from
+ malicious software behaviors. Even better, usually the community
+ protects everyone, and most users don't have to move a muscle. Here's
+ how.</p>
+
+<p>Once in a while, users who know programming find that a free program
+ has malicious code. Generally the next thing they do is release a
+ corrected version of the program; with the four freedoms that define
+ free software (see <a
href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html</a>),
they
+ are free to do this. This is called a “fork” of the program.
Soon
+ the community switches to the corrected fork, and the malicious
+ version is rejected. The prospect of ignominious rejection is not
+ very tempting; thus, most of the time, even those who are not stopped
+ by their consciences and social pressure refrain from putting
+ malfeatures in free software.</p>
+
+<p>But not always. Ubuntu, a widely used and
+ influential <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html"> GNU/Linux </a>
+ distribution, has installed surveillance code. When the user
+ searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop,
+ Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical's servers. (Canonical
+ is the company that develops Ubuntu.)</p>
+
+<p>This is just like the first surveillance practice I learned about in
+ Windows. My late friend Fravia told me that when he searched for a
+ string in the files of his Windows system, it sent a packet to some
+ server, which was detected by his firewall. Given that first example
+ I paid attention and learned about the propensity of “reputable”
+ proprietary software to be malware. Perhaps it is no coincidence that
+ Ubuntu sends the same information.</p>
+
+<p>Ubuntu uses the information about searches to show the user ads to buy
+ various things from Amazon. <span
class="removed"><del><strong>Amazon</strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><a
href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">Amazon</em></ins></span> commits many
<span class="removed"><del><strong>wrongs (see
+ <a
href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">http://stallman.org/amazon.html</a>);</strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em>wrongs</a>;</em></ins></span> by
promoting Amazon, Canonical contributes to them.
+ However, the ads are not the core of the problem. The main issue is
+ the spying. Canonical says it does not tell Amazon who searched for
+ what. However, it is just as bad for Canonical to collect your
+ personal information as it would have been for Amazon to collect <span
class="removed"><del><strong>it.</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>it.
+ Ubuntu surveillance
+ is <a
href="http://nathanheafner.com/home/2013/09/22/ubuntu-dash-search-is-not-anonymous/">not
+ anonymous</a>.</p></em></ins></span>
+
+<p>People will certainly make a modified version of Ubuntu without this
+ surveillance. In fact, several GNU/Linux distros are modified
+ versions of Ubuntu. When those update to the latest Ubuntu as a base,
+ I expect they will remove this. Canonical surely expects that too.</p>
+
+<p>Most free software developers would abandon such a plan given the
+ prospect of a mass switch to someone else's corrected version. But
+ Canonical has not abandoned the Ubuntu spyware. Perhaps Canonical
+ figures that the name “Ubuntu” has so much momentum and
influence that
+ it can avoid the usual consequences and get away with surveillance.</p>
+
+<p>Canonical says this feature searches the Internet in other ways.
+ Depending on the details, that might or might not make the problem
+ bigger, but not smaller.</p>
+
+<p>Ubuntu allows users to switch the surveillance off. Clearly Canonical
+ thinks that many Ubuntu users will leave this setting in the default
+ state (on). And many may do so, because it doesn't occur to them to
+ try to do anything about it. Thus, the existence of that switch does
+ not make the surveillance feature ok.</p>
+
+<p>Even if it were disabled by default, the feature would still be
+ dangerous: “opt in, once and for all” for a risky practice,
where the
+ risk varies depending on details, invites carelessness. To protect
+ users' privacy, systems should make prudence easy: when a local search
+ program has a network search feature, it should be up to the user to
+ choose network search explicitly <em>each time</em>. This is
easy:
+ all it takes is to have separate buttons for network searches and
+ local searches, as earlier versions of Ubuntu did. A network search
+ feature should also inform the user clearly and concretely about who
+ will get what personal information of hers, if and when she uses the
+ feature.</p>
+
+<p>If a sufficient part of our community's opinion leaders view this
+ issue in personal terms only, if they switch the surveillance off for
+ themselves and continue to promote Ubuntu, Canonical might get away
+ with it. That would be a great loss to the free software
community.</p>
+
+<p>We who present free software as a defense against malware do not say
+ it is a perfect defense. No perfect defense is known. We don't say
+ the community will deter malware <em>without fail</em>. Thus,
+ strictly speaking, the Ubuntu spyware example doesn't mean we have to
+ eat our words.</p>
+
+<p>But there's more at stake here than whether some of us have to eat
+ some words. What's at stake is whether our community can effectively
+ use the argument based on proprietary spyware. If we can only say,
+ “free software won't spy on you, unless it's Ubuntu,” that's
much less
+ powerful than saying, “free software won't spy on you.”</p>
+
+<p>It behooves us to give Canonical whatever rebuff is needed to make it
+ stop this. Any excuse Canonical offers is inadequate; even if it used
+ all the money it gets from Amazon to develop free software, that can
+ hardly overcome what free software will lose if it ceases to offer an
+ effective way to avoid abuse of the users.</p>
+
+<p>If you ever recommend or redistribute GNU/Linux, please remove Ubuntu
+ from the distros you recommend or redistribute. If its practice of
+ installing and recommending nonfree software didn't convince you to
+ stop, let this convince you. In your install fests, in your Software
+ Freedom Day events, in your FLISOL events, don't install or recommend
+ Ubuntu. Instead, tell people that Ubuntu is shunned for spying.</p>
+
+<p>While you're at it, you can also tell them that Ubuntu contains
+ nonfree programs and suggests other nonfree programs. (See
+ <a href="/distros/common-distros.html">
+ http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html</a>.) That will
counteract
+ the other form of negative influence that Ubuntu exerts in the free
+ software community: legitimizing nonfree software.</p>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><blockquote>
+<p>
+As of March 2014 we have heard talk of a plan to change Ubuntu to
+remove this surveillance malfeature. I hope Ubuntu does make that
+change and soon, since that will vindicate free software's reputation.
+However, reportedly Ubuntu 14.04 in April 2014 still has the problem.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The presence of nonfree software in Ubuntu is a separate ethical
+issue. For Ubuntu to be ethical, that too must be fixed.
+</p>
+</blockquote></em></ins></span>
+
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+
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+<p>Copyright © 2012 Richard Stallman</p>
+
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+<span
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+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p</em></ins></span>
class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
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+<!-- Parent-Version: <span
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+<title>Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
+ - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/ubuntu-spyware.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?</h2>
+
+<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard
Stallman</a></p>
+
+<p>One of the major advantages of free software is that the community
+ protects users from malicious software. Now
+ Ubuntu <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html"> GNU/Linux </a> has
become
+ a counterexample. What should we do?</p>
+
+<p>Proprietary software is associated with malicious treatment of the
user:
+ surveillance code, digital handcuffs (DRM or Digital Restrictions
+ Management) to restrict users, and back doors that can do nasty things
+ under remote control. Programs that do any of these things are
+ malware and should be treated as such. Widely used examples include
+ Windows, the iThings, and the Amazon “Kindle” product for
virtual book
+ burning, which do all three; Macintosh and the Playstation III which
+ impose DRM; most portable phones, which do spying and have back doors;
+ Adobe Flash Player, which does spying and enforces DRM; and plenty of
+ apps for iThings and Android, which are guilty of one or more of these
+ nasty practices.</p>
+
+<p>Free software gives users a chance to protect themselves from
+ malicious software behaviors. Even better, usually the community
+ protects everyone, and most users don't have to move a muscle. Here's
+ how.</p>
+
+<p>Once in a while, users who know programming find that a free program
+ has malicious code. Generally the next thing they do is release a
+ corrected version of the program; with the four freedoms that define
+ free software (see <a
href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html</a>),
they
+ are free to do this. This is called a “fork” of the program.
Soon
+ the community switches to the corrected fork, and the malicious
+ version is rejected. The prospect of ignominious rejection is not
+ very tempting; thus, most of the time, even those who are not stopped
+ by their consciences and social pressure refrain from putting
+ malfeatures in free software.</p>
+
+<p>But not always. Ubuntu, a widely used and
+ influential <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html"> GNU/Linux </a>
+ distribution, has installed surveillance code. When the user
+ searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop,
+ Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical's servers. (Canonical
+ is the company that develops Ubuntu.)</p>
+
+<p>This is just like the first surveillance practice I learned about in
+ Windows. My late friend Fravia told me that when he searched for a
+ string in the files of his Windows system, it sent a packet to some
+ server, which was detected by his firewall. Given that first example
+ I paid attention and learned about the propensity of “reputable”
+ proprietary software to be malware. Perhaps it is no coincidence that
+ Ubuntu sends the same information.</p>
+
+<p>Ubuntu uses the information about searches to show the user ads to buy
+ various things from Amazon. <span
class="removed"><del><strong>Amazon</strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><a
href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">Amazon</em></ins></span> commits many
<span class="removed"><del><strong>wrongs (see
+ <a
href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">http://stallman.org/amazon.html</a>);</strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em>wrongs</a>;</em></ins></span> by
promoting Amazon, Canonical contributes to them.
+ However, the ads are not the core of the problem. The main issue is
+ the spying. Canonical says it does not tell Amazon who searched for
+ what. However, it is just as bad for Canonical to collect your
+ personal information as it would have been for Amazon to collect <span
class="removed"><del><strong>it.</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>it.
+ Ubuntu surveillance
+ is <a
href="http://nathanheafner.com/home/2013/09/22/ubuntu-dash-search-is-not-anonymous/">not
+ anonymous</a>.</p></em></ins></span>
+
+<p>People will certainly make a modified version of Ubuntu without this
+ surveillance. In fact, several GNU/Linux distros are modified
+ versions of Ubuntu. When those update to the latest Ubuntu as a base,
+ I expect they will remove this. Canonical surely expects that too.</p>
+
+<p>Most free software developers would abandon such a plan given the
+ prospect of a mass switch to someone else's corrected version. But
+ Canonical has not abandoned the Ubuntu spyware. Perhaps Canonical
+ figures that the name “Ubuntu” has so much momentum and
influence that
+ it can avoid the usual consequences and get away with surveillance.</p>
+
+<p>Canonical says this feature searches the Internet in other ways.
+ Depending on the details, that might or might not make the problem
+ bigger, but not smaller.</p>
+
+<p>Ubuntu allows users to switch the surveillance off. Clearly Canonical
+ thinks that many Ubuntu users will leave this setting in the default
+ state (on). And many may do so, because it doesn't occur to them to
+ try to do anything about it. Thus, the existence of that switch does
+ not make the surveillance feature ok.</p>
+
+<p>Even if it were disabled by default, the feature would still be
+ dangerous: “opt in, once and for all” for a risky practice,
where the
+ risk varies depending on details, invites carelessness. To protect
+ users' privacy, systems should make prudence easy: when a local search
+ program has a network search feature, it should be up to the user to
+ choose network search explicitly <em>each time</em>. This is
easy:
+ all it takes is to have separate buttons for network searches and
+ local searches, as earlier versions of Ubuntu did. A network search
+ feature should also inform the user clearly and concretely about who
+ will get what personal information of hers, if and when she uses the
+ feature.</p>
+
+<p>If a sufficient part of our community's opinion leaders view this
+ issue in personal terms only, if they switch the surveillance off for
+ themselves and continue to promote Ubuntu, Canonical might get away
+ with it. That would be a great loss to the free software
community.</p>
+
+<p>We who present free software as a defense against malware do not say
+ it is a perfect defense. No perfect defense is known. We don't say
+ the community will deter malware <em>without fail</em>. Thus,
+ strictly speaking, the Ubuntu spyware example doesn't mean we have to
+ eat our words.</p>
+
+<p>But there's more at stake here than whether some of us have to eat
+ some words. What's at stake is whether our community can effectively
+ use the argument based on proprietary spyware. If we can only say,
+ “free software won't spy on you, unless it's Ubuntu,” that's
much less
+ powerful than saying, “free software won't spy on you.”</p>
+
+<p>It behooves us to give Canonical whatever rebuff is needed to make it
+ stop this. Any excuse Canonical offers is inadequate; even if it used
+ all the money it gets from Amazon to develop free software, that can
+ hardly overcome what free software will lose if it ceases to offer an
+ effective way to avoid abuse of the users.</p>
+
+<p>If you ever recommend or redistribute GNU/Linux, please remove Ubuntu
+ from the distros you recommend or redistribute. If its practice of
+ installing and recommending nonfree software didn't convince you to
+ stop, let this convince you. In your install fests, in your Software
+ Freedom Day events, in your FLISOL events, don't install or recommend
+ Ubuntu. Instead, tell people that Ubuntu is shunned for spying.</p>
+
+<p>While you're at it, you can also tell them that Ubuntu contains
+ nonfree programs and suggests other nonfree programs. (See
+ <a href="/distros/common-distros.html">
+ http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html</a>.) That will
counteract
+ the other form of negative influence that Ubuntu exerts in the free
+ software community: legitimizing nonfree software.</p>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><blockquote>
+<p>
+As of March 2014 we have heard talk of a plan to change Ubuntu to
+remove this surveillance malfeature. I hope Ubuntu does make that
+change and soon, since that will vindicate free software's reputation.
+However, reportedly Ubuntu 14.04 in April 2014 still has the problem.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The presence of nonfree software in Ubuntu is a separate ethical
+issue. For Ubuntu to be ethical, that too must be fixed.
+</p>
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