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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: GNUN <gnun> 17/07/17 01:30:12
Modified files:
proprietary : malware-google.de.html malware-mobiles.de.html
proprietary-drm.de.html
proprietary/po : malware-mobiles.de-diff.html
proprietary-drm.de-diff.html
Added files:
proprietary/po : malware-google.de-diff.html
Log message:
Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-google.de.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.1&r2=1.2
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.de.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.15&r2=1.16
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-drm.de.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.15&r2=1.16
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/malware-mobiles.de-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/proprietary-drm.de-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/malware-google.de-diff.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: malware-google.de.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-google.de.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -b -r1.1 -r1.2
--- malware-google.de.html 8 May 2017 03:04:34 -0000 1.1
+++ malware-google.de.html 17 Jul 2017 05:30:12 -0000 1.2
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/malware-google.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/malware-google.de.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/malware-google.de.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/malware-google.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE"
value="/proprietary/po/malware-google.de-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2017-05-18" --><!--#set
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/malware-google.en.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.de.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.83 -->
@@ -8,6 +13,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-google.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.de.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" -->
<h2>Googles Software ist Schadsoftware</h2>
<p><a href="/proprietary/">Weitere Beispiele proprietärer
Schadsoftware</a></p>
@@ -346,7 +352,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Letzte Ãnderung:
-$Date: 2017/05/08 03:04:34 $
+$Date: 2017/07/17 05:30:12 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
Index: malware-mobiles.de.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.de.html,v
retrieving revision 1.15
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -b -r1.15 -r1.16
--- malware-mobiles.de.html 10 May 2017 14:30:05 -0000 1.15
+++ malware-mobiles.de.html 17 Jul 2017 05:30:12 -0000 1.16
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/malware-mobiles.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/malware-mobiles.de.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/malware-mobiles.de.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE"
value="/proprietary/po/malware-mobiles.de-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2017-05-18" --><!--#set
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/malware-mobiles.en.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.de.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
@@ -8,6 +13,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-mobiles.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.de.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" -->
<h2>Schadprogramme auf Mobilgeräten</h2>
<p><a href="/proprietary/">Weitere Beispiele proprietärer
Schadsoftware</a></p>
@@ -544,7 +550,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Letzte Ãnderung:
-$Date: 2017/05/10 14:30:05 $
+$Date: 2017/07/17 05:30:12 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
Index: proprietary-drm.de.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-drm.de.html,v
retrieving revision 1.15
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -b -r1.15 -r1.16
--- proprietary-drm.de.html 28 Mar 2017 16:00:42 -0000 1.15
+++ proprietary-drm.de.html 17 Jul 2017 05:30:12 -0000 1.16
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/proprietary-drm.de.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/proprietary-drm.de.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE"
value="/proprietary/po/proprietary-drm.de-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2017-05-18" --><!--#set
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.en.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.de.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
@@ -9,6 +14,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-drm.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.de.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" -->
<h2>Proprietäre Digitale Rechte-Minderung (DRM)</h2>
<a href="/proprietary/">Weitere Beispiele proprietärer Schadsoftware</a>
@@ -314,7 +320,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Letzte Ãnderung:
-$Date: 2017/03/28 16:00:42 $
+$Date: 2017/07/17 05:30:12 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
Index: po/malware-mobiles.de-diff.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/po/malware-mobiles.de-diff.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- po/malware-mobiles.de-diff.html 29 Jun 2015 08:28:53 -0000 1.4
+++ po/malware-mobiles.de-diff.html 17 Jul 2017 05:30:12 -0000 1.5
@@ -11,26 +11,17 @@
</style></head>
<body><pre>
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.79</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.83</em></ins></span> -->
<title>Malware in Mobile Devices
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-mobiles.translist" -->
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><style type="text/css"
media="print,screen">
-<!--
-#content div.toc li { list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; }
-#content div.toc { margin-top: 1em; }
--->
-</style></em></ins></span>
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<h2>Malware in Mobile Devices</h2>
-<span class="removed"><del><strong><a</strong></del></span>
+<p><a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of
proprietary
+malware</a></p>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p><a</em></ins></span>
href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">Other examples of proprietary
-<span class="removed"><del><strong>malware</a></strong></del></span>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em>malware</a></p>
-
-<div class="highlight-para"></em></ins></span>
+<div class="highlight-para">
<p>
<em>Malware</em> means software designed to function in ways that
mistreat or harm the user. (This does not include accidental errors.)
@@ -47,51 +38,45 @@
the developer's awareness that the users would be powerless to fix any
malicious functionalities tempts the developer to impose some.
</p>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em></div></em></ins></span>
+</div>
<p>Here are examples of malware in mobile devices. See also
-the <a href="/philosophy/malware-apple.html">the Apple malware
+the <a href="/proprietary/malware-apple.html">the Apple malware
page</a> for malicious functionalities specific to the Apple
iThings.</p>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><div class="toc">
-<div class="malfunctions"></em></ins></span>
+<div class="summary" style="margin-top: 1em">
+<h3>Type of malware</h3>
<ul>
- <span class="removed"><del><strong><li><p>Many proprietary apps
for mobile devices report which other
- apps the user has
- installed. <a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/26/twitter-app-graph/">Twitter
- is doing this in a way that at least is visible and
- optional</a>. Not as bad as</strong></del></span>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><li><strong>Type of
malware</strong></li>
<li><a href="#back-doors">Back doors</a></li>
<!--<li><a
href="#censorship">Censorship</a></li>-->
<li><a href="#insecurity">Insecurity</a></li>
<!--<li><a href="#sabotage">Sabotage</a></li>-->
<!--<li><a
href="#interference">Interference</a></li>-->
<li><a href="#surveillance">Surveillance</a></li>
-<!--<li><a href="#drm">Digital restrictions
+<li><a href="#drm">Digital restrictions
management</a> or “DRM” means functionalities designed
- to restrict</em></ins></span> what <span class="removed"><del><strong>the
others do.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><p>Portable phones</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>users can do</em></ins></span> with <span
class="removed"><del><strong>GPS will send</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>the data in</em></ins></span> their <span
class="removed"><del><strong>GPS location</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>computers.</li>-->
+ to restrict what users can do with the data in their computers.</li>
<li><a href="#jails">Jails</a>—systems
- that impose censorship</em></ins></span> on <span
class="removed"><del><strong>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></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>application programs.</li>
+ that impose censorship on application programs.</li>
<li><a href="#tyrants">Tyrants</a>—systems
that reject any operating system not “authorized” by the
manufacturer.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-</div>
<h3 id="back-doors">Mobile Back Doors</h3>
-<ul></em></ins></span>
- <li><p>Most mobile phones have a universal back door, which has
been
+<ul>
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong><li><p>The</strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="back-door-microphone">
+ <p>The</em></ins></span> universal back door in portable phones <a
+
href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/remotely_eavesd_1.html">is
+ employed to listen through their microphones</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong><li><p>Most</strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="back-door-malicious">
+ <p>Most</em></ins></span> 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>
@@ -103,38 +88,7 @@
device.</p>
</li>
- <li><p><a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>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>Some Motorola phones modify Android to <a
- href="http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listening.html">
- send personal data to Motorola.</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li><p>Some manufacturers add a <a
-
href="http://androidsecuritytest.com/features/logs-and-services/loggers/carrieriq/">
- hidden general surveillance package such as Carrier IQ.</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li><p><a</strong></del></span>
href="/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html#samsung">
+ <li><p><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html#samsung">
Samsung's back door</a> provides access to any file on the
system.</p>
</li>
@@ -145,13 +99,11 @@
called GTalkService).
</p>
- <p>
- Google can
- also <a
href="https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/25/remote-kill-and-install-on-google-android/">forcibly
- and remotely install apps</a> through GTalkService (which seems, since
- that article, to have been merged into Google Play). This adds up to
- a universal back door.
- </p>
+<p>Google can also <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150520235257/https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/25/remote-kill-and-install-on-google-android/";
+title="at the Wayback Machine (archived May 20, 2015)">forcibly and remotely
+install apps</a> through GTalkService (which seems, since that article,
to have
+been merged into Google Play). This adds up to a universal back door.
</p>
<p>
Although Google's <em>exercise</em> of this power has not been
@@ -163,12 +115,40 @@
decide who (if anyone) to trust in this way.
</p>
</li>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em></ul>
+</ul>
<h3 id="insecurity">Mobile Insecurity</h3>
-<ul></em></ins></span>
- <li><p><a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/04/unlocking-motorola-bootloader.html">
- Some Android phones are tyrants</a> (though someone
found</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html">
+
+<p>These bugs are/were not intentional, so unlike the rest of the file
+ they do not count as malware. We mention them to refute the
+ supposition that prestigious proprietary software doesn't have grave
+ bugs.</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+ <p>Many Android devices <a
href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/wide-range-of-android-phones-vulnerable-to-device-hijacks-over-wi-fi/">
+ can be hijacked through their Wi-Fi chips</a> because of a bug in
+ Broadcom's non-free firmware.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Samsung
+phones <a
href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sms-exploitable-bug-in-samsung-galaxy-phones-can-be-used-for-ransomware-attacks/">have
+a security hole that allows an SMS message to install
+ransomeware</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Many proprietary payment apps <a
+href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/many-mobile-payments-startups-aren-t-properly-securing-user-data">
+transmit personal data in an insecure way</a>.
+However, the worse aspect of these apps is that
+<a href="/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">payment is not
anonymous</a>.
+</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
@@ -180,10 +160,185 @@
<h3 id="surveillance">Mobile Surveillance</h3>
<ul>
+
+<li>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Facebook's app listens all the
time, <a
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-using-people-s-phones-to-listen-in-on-what-they-re-saying-claims-professor-a7057526.html">to
snoop
+ on what people are listening to or watching</a>. In addition, it may
+ be analyzing people's conversations to serve them with targeted
+ advertisements.</p>
+</li>
+
+
+<li>
+ <p>A
+ <a
href="https://research.csiro.au/ng/wp-content/uploads/sites/106/2016/08/paper-1.pdf">
+ research paper</a> that investigated the privacy and security
+ of 283 Android VPN apps concluded that “in spite of the
+ promises for privacy, security, and anonymity given by the
+ majority of VPN apps—millions of users may be unawarely subject
+ to poor security guarantees and abusive practices inflicted by
+ VPN apps.”</p>
+
+ <p>Following is a non-exhaustive list of proprietary VPN apps from
+ the research paper that tracks and infringes the privacy of
+ users:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>SurfEasy</dt>
+ <dd>Includes tracking libraries such as NativeX and Appflood,
+ meant to track users and show them targeted ads.</dd>
+
+ <dt>sFly Network Booster</dt>
+ <dd>Requests the <code>READ_SMS</code> and
<code>SEND_SMS</code>
+ permissions upon installation, meaning it has full access to
+ users' text messages.</dd>
+
+ <dt>DroidVPN and TigerVPN</dt>
+ <dd>Requests the <code>READ_LOGS</code> permission to
read logs
+ for other apps and also core system logs. TigerVPN developers
+ have confirmed this.</dd>
+
+ <dt>HideMyAss</dt>
+ <dd>Sends traffic to LinkedIn. Also, it stores detailed logs
+ and may turn them over to the UK government if
+ requested.</dd>
+
+ <dt>VPN Services HotspotShield</dt>
+ <dd>Injects JavaScript code into the HTML pages returned to the
+ users. The stated purpose of the JS injection is to display
+ ads. Uses roughly 5 tracking libraries. Also, it redirects the
+ user's traffic through valueclick.com (an advertising
+ website).</dd>
+
+ <dt>WiFi Protector VPN</dt>
+ <dd>Injects JavaScript code into HTML pages, and also uses
+ roughly 5 tracking libraries. Developers of this app have
+ confirmed that the non-premium version of the app does
+ JavaScript injection for tracking and display ads.</dd>
+ </dl>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+ <p><a
href="http://www.privmetrics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wisec2015.pdf">A
study in 2015</a> found that 90% of the top-ranked gratis
+ proprietary Android apps contained recognizable tracking libraries. For
+ the paid proprietary apps, it was only 60%.</p>
+
+ <p>The article confusingly describes gratis apps as “free”,
+ but most of them are not in fact
+ <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>.
+ It also uses the ugly word “monetize”. A good replacement
+ for that word is “exploit”; nearly always that will fit
+ perfectly.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li></em></ins></span>
+ <p>A study found 234 Android apps that track users by
+ <a
href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/234-android-applications-are-currently-using-ultrasonic-beacons-to-track-users/">listening
+ to ultrasound from beacons placed in stores or played by TV
programs</a>.
+ </p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+ <p>Faceapp appears to do lots of surveillance, judging by
+ <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/04/26/everything-thats-wrong-with-faceapp-the-latest-creepy-photo-app-for-your-face/">
+ how much access it demands to personal data in the
device</a>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+<li>
+ <p>Pairs of Android apps can collude to transmit users' personal data
+ to servers. <a
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/when-apps-collude-to-steal-your-data/522177/">A
study found
+ tens of thousands of pairs that collude.</a></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Google Play intentionally sends app developers <a
+href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-play-store-policy-raises-privacy-concerns-331116">
+the personal details of users that install the app</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Merely asking the “consent” of users is not enough
+to legitimize actions like this. At this point, most users have
+stopped reading the “Terms and Conditions” that spell out
+what they are “consenting” to. Google should clearly
+and honestly identify the information it collects on users, instead
+of hiding it in an obscurely worded EULA.</p>
+
+<p>However, to truly protect people's privacy, we must prevent Google
+and other companies from getting this personal information in the first
+place!</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+ <p>Google Play (a component of Android) <a
+
href="https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/235594-yes-google-play-is-tracking-you-and-thats-just-the-tip-of-a-very-large-iceberg">
+ tracks the users' movements without their permission</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Even if you disable Google Maps and location tracking, you must
+ disable Google Play itself to completely stop the tracking. This is
+ yet another example of nonfree software pretending to obey the user,
+ when it's actually doing something else. Such a thing would be almost
+ unthinkable with free software.</p>
+
+</li>
+<li>
+ <p>Verizon <a
href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/03/30/0112259/verizon-to-force-appflash-spyware-on-android-phones">
+ announced an opt-in proprietary search app that it will</a>
+ pre-install on some of its phones. The app will give Verizon the same
+ information about the users' searches that Google normally gets when
+ they use its search engine.</p>
+
+ <p>Currently, the app is <a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/update-verizons-appflash-pre-installed-spyware-still-spyware">
+ being pre-installed on only one phone</a>, and the
+ user must explicitly opt-in before the app takes effect. However, the
+ app remains spyware—an “optional” piece of spyware is
+ still spyware.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p>The Meitu photo-editing
+app <a
href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/21/popular-selfie-app-sending-user-data-to-china-researchers-say/">sends
+user data to a Chinese company</a>.</p></li>
+
+<li>
+<p>A half-blind security critique of a tracking app: it found that <a
+href="http://www.consumerreports.org/mobile-security-software/glow-pregnancy-app-exposed-women-to-privacy-threats/">
+blatant flaws allowed anyone to snoop on a user's personal data</a>.
+The critique fails entirely to express concern that the app sends the
+personal data to a server, where the <em>developer</em> gets it
all.
+This “service” is for suckers!</p>
+
+<p>The server surely has a “privacy policy,” and surely it
+is worthless since nearly all of them are.</p>
+</li>
+
+ <li><p>Apps that include
+ <a
href="http://techaeris.com/2016/01/13/symphony-advanced-media-software-tracks-your-digital-life-through-your-smartphone-mic/">
+ Symphony surveillance software snoop on what radio and TV programs are
+ playing nearby</a>. Also on what users post on various sites such as
+ Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>More than 73% and 47% of mobile applications, both from
Android and iOS
+ respectively <a href="http://jots.pub/a/2015103001/index.php">share
personal,
+ behavioral and location information</a> of their users with third
parties.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>“Cryptic communication,” unrelated to the
app's functionality,
+ was <a
href="http://news.mit.edu/2015/data-transferred-android-apps-hiding-1119">
+ found in the 500 most popular gratis Android apps</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The article should not have described these apps as
+ “free”—they are not free software. The clear way to say
+ “zero price” is “gratis.”</p>
+
+ <p>The article takes for granted that the usual analytics tools are
+ legitimate, but is that valid? Software developers have no right to
+ analyze what users are doing or how. “Analytics” tools that
snoop are
+ just as wrong as any other snooping.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li><p>Many proprietary apps for mobile devices report which
other
apps the user has
installed. <a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/26/twitter-app-graph/">Twitter
- is doing this in</em></ins></span> a way <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>that at least is visible and
+ is doing this in a way that at least is visible and
optional</a>. Not as bad as what the others do.</p>
</li>
@@ -191,7 +346,7 @@
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</em></ins></span> to <span
class="removed"><del><strong>crack</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>have
+ (The US says it will eventually require all new portable phones to have
GPS.)</p>
</li>
@@ -201,18 +356,18 @@
<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"></em></ins></span>
- the <span class="removed"><del><strong>restriction). Fortunately,
most</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>FBI can remotely
activate the GPS and microphone in</em></ins></span> Android <span
class="removed"><del><strong>devices are not
tyrants.</p></strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>phones
- and laptops</a>. (I suspect this means Windows laptops.) Here is <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 <span class="inserted"><ins><em>in</em></ins></span> 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>Some Motorola phones modify Android to <a
href="http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listening.html">
- send personal data to Motorola.</a></p></em></ins></span>
+ send personal data to Motorola.</a></p>
</li>
- <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li><p>Some manufacturers add a
<a
+ <li><p>Some manufacturers add a <a
href="http://androidsecuritytest.com/features/logs-and-services/loggers/carrieriq/">
hidden general surveillance package such as Carrier IQ.</a></p>
</li>
@@ -228,22 +383,53 @@
</li>
</ul>
+<h3 id="drm">Mobile DRM</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="android-apps-detect-rooting">
+<p>Google now allows Android apps to detect whether a device has been
+rooted, <a
href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/13/netflix-confirms-blocking-rootedunlocked-devices-app-still-working-now/">and
refuse to install
+if so</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Update: Google <i>intentionally</i> <a
href="https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-use-of-google-drm-means-rooted-android-devices-are-banned-170515/">
+changed Android so that apps can detect rooted devices and refuse to
+run on them</a>.</p>
+</li></em></ins></span>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The iPhone 7 contains DRM specifically designed to <a
+
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/iphone-7-home-button-unreplaceable-repair-software-lock">
+ brick it if an “unauthorized” repair shop fixes it</a>.
+ “Unauthorized” essentially means anyone besides Apple.</p>
+
+ <p>The article uses the term “lock” to describe the DRM,
+ but we prefer to use the term <a
+ href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalLocks">
+ digital handcuffs</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>Android <a
href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/drm/package-summary.html">contains
+ facilities specifically to support DRM</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
<h3 id="jails">Mobile Jails</h3>
-<ul></em></ins></span>
- <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>
+<ul>
+ <li><p><a
+ href="https://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/">Mobile
+ devices that come with Windows 8 are tyrants</a>. <a
+
href="http://www.itworld.com/article/2832657/operating-systems/microsoft-metro-app-store-lock-down.html">Windows
+ 8 on “mobile devices” is a jail.</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><h3 id="tyrants">Mobile
Tyrants</h3>
+<h3 id="tyrants">Mobile Tyrants</h3>
<ul>
<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>
-</ul></em></ins></span>
+</ul>
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+++ po/proprietary-drm.de-diff.html 17 Jul 2017 05:30:12 -0000 1.4
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
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<body><pre>
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-<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.77</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.79</em></ins></span> -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
<title>Proprietary DRM - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation</title>
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@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@
<a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of proprietary
malware</a>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is
very often malware (designed to
+<p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to
mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers,
which puts them in a position of power over the users; <a
href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">that is the
basic injustice</a>. The developers often exercise that power to the
-detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p></em></ins></span>
+detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p>
<p>Here are examples of proprietary programs and systems that
implement <em>digital restrictions management</em> (DRM):
@@ -35,16 +35,48 @@
<p>DRM is reinforced by
<a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/feb/05/digital-rights-management">
censorship laws</a> that ban software (and hardware) that can break
-the handcuffs. Instead of these laws, DRM <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>itself</em></ins></span> ought to be illegal.
+the handcuffs. Instead of these laws, DRM itself ought to be illegal.
Please support our campaign
to <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/">abolish DRM</a>.
</p>
<ul>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><li><p>HP's firmware downgrade
<a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/hp-inkjet-printers-unofficial-cartridges-software-update">imposed
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><li>
+<p>Google now allows Android apps to detect whether a device has been
+rooted, <a
href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/13/netflix-confirms-blocking-rootedunlocked-devices-app-still-working-now/">and
refuse to install
+if so</a>. The Netflix app uses this ability to enforce DRM by refusing
+to install on rooted Android devices.</p>
+
+<p>Update: Google <i>intentionally</i> changed Android so
that apps
+<a
href="https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-use-of-google-drm-means-rooted-android-devices-are-banned-170515/">can
detect rooted devices and refuse to
+run on them</a>. The Netflix app is proprietary malware, and one
+shouldn't use it. However, that does not make what Google has done
+any less wrong.</p>
+</li></em></ins></span>
+
+<li><p>Windows DRM
+files <a
href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/02/02/231229/windows-drm-protected-files-used-to-decloak-tor-browser-users">can
+be used to identify people browsing through Tor</a>. The vulnerability
+exists only if you use Windows.
+</p></li>
+
+<li>
+ <p>Chrome <a
href="http://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/google-quietly-makes-optiona.html">implements
+ DRM</a>. So does Chromium, through nonfree software that is
+ effectively part of it.</p>
+
+ <p><a
href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=686430">More
information</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li><p>Android <a
href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/drm/package-summary.html">contains
+facilities specifically to support DRM.</a></p>
+</li>
+
+<li><p>HP's firmware downgrade <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/hp-inkjet-printers-unofficial-cartridges-software-update">imposed
DRM on some printers, which now refuse to function with third-party
ink cartridges</a>.</p>
-</li></em></ins></span>
+</li>
<li>
<p>Oculus Rift games
@@ -82,7 +114,7 @@
</li>
<li>
-<p><a
href="http://science.opposingviews.com/kindle-drm-17841.html">
+<p><a
href="http://techin.oureverydaylife.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
@@ -211,7 +243,7 @@
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Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
@@ -221,7 +253,7 @@
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.83 -->
+<title>Google's Software Is Malware
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+ <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-google.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+<h2>Google's Software is Malware</h2>
+
+<p><a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of
proprietary
+malware</a></p>
+
+<div class="highlight-para">
+<p>
+<em>Malware</em> means software designed to function in ways that
+mistreat or harm the user. (This does not include accidental errors.)
+This page explains how Google software is malware.
+</p>
+
+<p>Malware and nonfree software are two different issues. The
+difference between <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free
+software</a> and nonfree software is in
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
+whether the users have control of the program or vice versa</a>. It's
+not directly a question of what the program <em>does</em> when it
+runs. However, in practice nonfree software is often malware,
+because the developer's awareness that the users would be powerless to fix
+any malicious functionalities tempts the developer to impose some.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="summary" style="margin-top: 2em">
+ <h3><strong>Type of malware</strong></h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#back-doors">Back doors</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#censorship">Censorship</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#insecurity">Insecurity</a></li>
+ <!--<li><a
href="#pressuring">Pressuring</a></li>-->
+ <li><a href="#sabotage">Sabotage</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#surveillance">Surveillance</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#drm">Digital restrictions
+ management</a> or “DRM” means functionalities
designed
+ to restrict what users can do with the data in their
computers.</li>
+ <!--<li><a href="#jails">Jails</a>—systems
+ that impose censorship on application programs.</li>-->
+ <li><a href="#tyrants">Tyrants</a>—systems
+ that reject any operating system not “authorized” by the
+ manufacturer.</li>
+ <!--<li><a
href="#deception">Deception</a></li>-->
+ </ul>
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="back-doors">Google Back Doors</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li id="back-door-dup1"><p>Chrome has a back door <a
href="https://consumerist.com/2017/01/18/why-is-google-blocking-this-ad-blocker-on-chrome/">for
+ remote erasure of add-ons</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>In Android, <a
href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2506557/security0/google-throws--kill-switch--on-android-phones.html">
+ Google has a back door to remotely delete apps.</a> (It is in a
program
+ called GTalkService).</p>
+
+ <p>Google can also
+ <a
href="https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/25/remote-kill-and-install-on-google-android/">
+ forcibly and remotely install apps</a> through GTalkService (which
+ seems, since that article, to have been merged into Google Play).
+ This is not equivalent to a universal back door, but permits various
+ dirty tricks.</p>
+
+ <p>Although Google's <em>exercise</em> of this power has
not been
+ malicious so far, the point is that nobody should have such power,
+ which could also be used maliciously. You might well decide to let a
+ security service remotely <em>deactivate</em> programs that
it
+ considers malicious. But there is no excuse for allowing it
+ to <em>delete</em> the programs, and you should have the
right to
+ decide who (if anyone) to trust in this way.</p></li>
+
+</ul>
+<h3 id="censorship">Google Censorship</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><p>Google Chrome, running on Windows, <a
+
href="https://thenextweb.com/google/2014/05/27/google-starts-blocking-extensions-chrome-web-store-windows-users-disables-installed-ones/">
+ is a jail</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>Google
+ <a
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2017/0316/Google-Family-Link-gives-parents-a-way-to-monitor-preteens-accounts">
+ offers censorship software</a>, ostensibly for parents to put into
+ their children's computers.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>Chrome is <a href="#back-door-dup1">censored by a
back door</a>
+ described above.</p></li>
+ <li><p><a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/03/google-pulls-ad-blocking-app-for-samsung-phones">Google
+ censored installation of Samsung's ad-blocker,</a> saying that
+ blocking ads is “interference” with the sites that
+ advertise (and surveil users through ads).</p>
+
+ <p>The ad-blocker is proprietary software, just like the program
(Google
+ Play) that Google used to deny access to install it. Using a nonfree
program
+ gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that
power.</p>
+
+ <p>Google's censorship, unlike that of Apple and Microsoft, is not
total:
+ Android allows users to install apps in other ways. You can install
+ free programs from f-droid.org.</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="insecurity">Google Insecurity</h3>
+
+<p>These bugs are/were not intentional, so unlike the rest of the file
+ they do not count as malware. We mention them to refute the
+ supposition that prestigious proprietary software doesn't have grave
+ bugs.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <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>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="sabotage">Google Sabotage</h3>
+
+<p>The wrongs in this section are not precisely malware, since they do
+not involve making the program that runs in a way that hurts the user.
+But they are a lot like malware, since they are technical Google
+actions that harm to the users of specific Google software.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><p>Google has long had <a
+
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/24/google-can-unlock-android-devices-remotely-if-phone-unencrypted">a
+ back door to remotely unlock an Android device</a>, unless its
+ disk is encrypted (possible since Android 5.0 Lollipop, but
+ still not quite the default).</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="surveillance">Google Surveillance</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><p>Google Chrome contains a key logger that
+ <a
href="http://www.favbrowser.com/google-chrome-spyware-confirmed/">
+ sends Google every URL typed in</a>, one key at a time.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>Google Chrome includes a module that
+ <a
href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/06/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth/">
+ activates microphones and transmits audio to its
servers</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>Spyware is present in some Android devices when they are
sold.
+ Some Motorola phones modify Android to
+ <a
href="http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listening.html">
+ send personal data to Motorola</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>Google's new voice messaging app <a
href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/21/12994362/allo-privacy-message-logs-google">logs
+ all conversations</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong><li><p>Nest</strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="nest-thermometers">
+ <p>Nest</em></ins></span> thermometers
+ send <a
href="http://bgr.com/2014/07/17/google-nest-jailbreak-hack">a
+ lot of data about the user</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>Many web sites report all their visitors to Google by
using
+ the Google Analytics service, which
+ <a
href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/434164/google_analytics_breaks_norwegian_privacy_laws_local_agency_said/">
+ tells Google the IP address and the page that was
visited.</a></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>Google Chrome makes it easy for an extension to do <a
+
href="https://labs.detectify.com/2015/07/28/how-i-disabled-your-chrome-security-extensions/">total
+ snooping on the user's browsing</a>, and many of them do
so.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="drm">Google DRM</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Google now allows Android apps to
detect whether a device has been
+rooted, <a
href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/13/netflix-confirms-blocking-rootedunlocked-devices-app-still-working-now/">and
refuse to install
+if so</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Update: Google <i>intentionally</i> changed Android so
that apps
+<a
href="https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-use-of-google-drm-means-rooted-android-devices-are-banned-170515/">can
detect rooted devices and refuse to
+run on them</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Chrome <a
href="http://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/google-quietly-makes-optiona.html">implements
+ DRM</a>. So does Chromium, through nonfree software that is
+ effectively part of it.</p>
+
+ <p><a
href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=686430">More
information</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li><p>Android <a
href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/drm/package-summary.html">contains
+facilities specifically to support DRM.</a></p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="tyrants">Google Tyrants</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+<p><a
href="http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/04/unlocking-motorola-bootloader.html">
+Some Android phones made by Google are tyrants</a> (though someone found
a way to
+crack the restriction). Fortunately, most Android devices are not tyrants.
+</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
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