www/proprietary malware-microsoft.html

[Pavel Kharitonov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev>       16/09/01 17:06:02

Modified files:
        proprietary    : malware-microsoft.html 

Log message:
        Add missing entries RT #1134761.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.37&r2=1.38

Patches:
Index: malware-microsoft.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html,v
retrieving revision 1.37
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -b -r1.37 -r1.38
--- malware-microsoft.html      28 Aug 2016 15:58:12 -0000      1.37
+++ malware-microsoft.html      1 Sep 2016 17:06:02 -0000       1.38
@@ -82,6 +82,25 @@
 
   <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>Users reported that <a 
+    
href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2993490/windows/windows-10-upgrades-reportedly-appearing-as-mandatory-for-some-users.html#tk.rss_all";>
+    Microsoft was forcing them to replace Windows 7 and 8 with all-spying 
+    Windows 10</a>.</p>
+
+    <p>Microsoft was in fact <a 
+    
href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/3012278/microsoft-windows/microsoft-sets-stage-for-massive-windows-10-upgrade-strategy.html";>
+    attacking computers that run Windows 7 and 8</a>, switching on a flag 
+    that said whether to &ldquo;upgrade&rdquo; to Windows 10 when users 
+    had turned it off.</p>
+
+    <p>Later on, Microsoft published instructions on <a 
+    
href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/microsoft-finally-has-a-proper-way-to-opt-out-of-windows-78-to-windows-10-upgrades/";>
+    how to permanently reject the downgrade to Windows 10</a>.</p>
+
+    <p>This seems to involve use of a back door in Windows 7 and 8.</p>
+</li>
+
 </ul>
 
 <h3 id="insecurity">Microsoft Insecurity</h3>
@@ -91,6 +110,14 @@
     allows an attacker to retrieve Microsoft account credentials, if
     the user is tricked into visiting a malicious link.</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>
+
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -132,8 +159,7 @@
 
   <li><p>Microsoft
     is <a 
href="http://gizmodo.com/woman-wins-10-000-from-microsoft-after-unwanted-window-1782666146";>
-    forcibly
-    pushing</a> <a 
href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/3012278/microsoft-windows/microsoft-sets-stage-for-massive-windows-10-upgrade-strategy.html";>Windows
+    forcibly pushing Windows
     update to its version 10</a>, ignoring the flag on Windows 7 or 8
     that you could set to not upgrade.  This reaffirms the presence of
     a <a href="/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html">universal
@@ -148,6 +174,13 @@
   repeatedly nagging many users to install Windows 10</a>.
   </p></li>
 
+<li><p>
+Microsoft was for months <a
+href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/02/microsoft-downloading-windows-10-automatic-update";>
+tricking users into &ldquo;upgrading&rdquo; to Windows 10</a>, if they
+fail to notice and say no.
+</p></li>
+
   <li><p><a 
href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/how-can-any-company-ever-trust-microsoft-again-3569376/";>
   Microsoft informs the NSA of bugs in Windows before fixing them.</a></p></li>
 
@@ -194,6 +227,21 @@
 <h3 id="surveillance">Microsoft Surveillance</h3>
 
 <ul>
+
+<li>It appears <a
+href="http://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/05/microsoft-may-be-collecting-more-data-than-initially-thought/";>
+Windows 10 sends data to Microsoft about what applications are 
+running</a>.</li>
+
+<li><p>A downgrade to Windows 10 deleted surveillance-detection
+applications.  Then another downgrade inserted a general spying
+program.  Users noticed this and complained, so Microsoft
+renamed it <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160407082751/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/26/microsoft_renamed_data_slurper_reinserted_windows_10/";>
+to give users the impression it was gone</a>.</p>
+
+<p>To use proprietary software is to invite such treatment.</p></li>
+
   <li><p>
   <a 
href="https://duo.com/blog/bring-your-own-dilemma-oem-laptops-and-windows-10-security";>
   Windows 10 comes with 13 screens of snooping options</a>, all enabled by 
default,
@@ -232,6 +280,35 @@
   <a 
href="http://www.itproportal.com/2014/05/14/microsoft-openly-offered-cloud-data-fbi-and-nsa/";>
   Microsoft SkyDrive allows the NSA to directly examine users' data.</a></p>
   </li>
+
+  <li><p>Spyware in Skype:
+      <a 
href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/06/20/project-chess-how-u-s-snoops-on-your-skype/";>
+      
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/06/20/project-chess-how-u-s-snoops-on-your-skype/</a>.
+      Microsoft changed Skype
+      <a 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data";>
+      specifically for spying</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
+  <li><p>
+  Microsoft uses Windows 10's &ldquo;privacy policy&rdquo; to overtly impose a
+  &ldquo;right&rdquo; to look at users' files at any time. Windows 10 full disk
+  encryption <a 
href="https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-personal-data-abused/";>
+  gives Microsoft a key</a>.</p>
+
+  <p>Thus, Windows is overt malware in regard to surveillance,
+  as in other issues.</p>
+
+  <p>We can suppose Microsoft look at users' files for the US government on
+  demand, though the &ldquo;privacy policy&rdquo; does not explicit say so. 
Will it
+  look at users' files for the Chinese government on demand?</p>
+
+  <p>The unique &ldquo;advertising ID&rdquo; for each user enables other 
companies to
+  track the browsing of each specific user.</p>
+
+  <p>It's as if Microsoft has deliberately chosen to make Windows 10
+  maximally evil on every dimension; to make a grab for total power
+  over anyone that doesn't drop Windows now.</p></li>
+
 </ul>
 
 <h3 id="drm">Microsoft DRM</h3>
@@ -329,7 +406,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
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