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From: |
Félicien PILLOT |
Subject: |
www/proprietary malware-google.html |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Aug 2017 05:58:08 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: FĂ©licien PILLOT <felandral> 17/08/01 05:58:08
Modified files:
proprietary : malware-google.html
Log message:
[#1099084] Copy item from proprietary-sabotage.html
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-google.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.22&r2=1.23
Patches:
Index: malware-google.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-google.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -b -r1.22 -r1.23
--- malware-google.html 23 May 2017 17:27:41 -0000 1.22
+++ malware-google.html 1 Aug 2017 09:58:07 -0000 1.23
@@ -129,6 +129,19 @@
actions that harm to the users of specific Google software.</p>
<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Revolv is an IoT device which managed “smart home”
+ operations: switching the lights, operate motion sensors, regulating
+ temperature, etc. On May 15th, 2016, Google said it would shut down the
+ service linked to the device, making it unusable.</p>
+ <p>Although you may own the device, its functioning depended on the server
+ that never belonged to you. So you never really had control of it. This
+ unjust design is called
+ <a href="/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html">
+ Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)</a>. That is what gave the
+ company the power to convert it into a $300 out-of-warranty brick, for
+ your “dumb home”.</p>
+ </li>
<li><p>Google has long had <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/24/google-can-unlock-android-devices-remotely-if-phone-unencrypted">a
back door to remotely unlock an Android device</a>, unless its
@@ -278,7 +291,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/05/23 17:27:41 $
+$Date: 2017/08/01 09:58:07 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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