www/proprietary malware-amazon.html malware-goo...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/08/22 04:37:19

Modified files:
        proprietary    : malware-amazon.html malware-google.html 
                         proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        Add Android geolocation and Echo listening (RT #1315428 & 1316372).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-amazon.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.6&r2=1.7
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-google.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.33&r2=1.34
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.191&r2=1.192

Patches:
Index: malware-amazon.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-amazon.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -b -r1.6 -r1.7
--- malware-amazon.html 25 Jul 2018 01:38:34 -0000      1.6
+++ malware-amazon.html 22 Aug 2018 08:37:19 -0000      1.7
@@ -55,26 +55,6 @@
 management (DRM)</a>  and <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">
 other malicious functionalities</a>.</p>
 
-<div class="summary" style="margin-top: 1em">
-    <h3>Type&nbsp;of malware</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="#sabotage">Sabotage</a></li>-->
-      <!--<li><a href="#interference">Interference</a></li>-->
-      <li><a href="#surveillance">Surveillance</a></li>
-      <li><a href="#drm">Digital restrictions
-         management</a> or &ldquo;DRM&rdquo; means functionalities designed
-       to restrict what users can do with the data in their computers.</li>
-      <!--<li><a href="#jails">Jails</a>&mdash;systems
-         that impose censorship on application programs.</li>-->
-      <!--<li><a href="#tyrants">Tyrants</a>&mdash;systems
-         that reject any operating system not &ldquo;authorized&rdquo; by the
-         manufacturer.</li>-->
-    </ul>
-</div>
-
 <h3 id="back-doors">Amazon Kindle Swindle Back Doors</h3>
 <ul>
   <li>
@@ -132,6 +112,24 @@
   </li>
 </ul>
 
+<h3>Amazon Echo Surveillance</h3>
+<ul>
+  <li><p>Crackers found a way to break the security of an Amazon device,
+      and <a
+      href="https://boingboing.net/2018/08/12/alexa-bob-carol.html";>
+      turn it into a listening device</a> for them.</p>
+    <p>It was very difficult for them to do this. The job would be much
+      easier for Amazon. And if some government such as China or the
+      US told Amazon to do this, or cease to sell the product in that
+      country, do you think Amazon would have the moral fiber to say
+      no?</p>
+    <p>These crackers are probably hackers too, but please <a
+      href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html";>
+      don't use &ldquo;hacking&rdquo; to mean &ldquo;breaking
+      security&rdquo;</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
 <div id="footer">
@@ -189,7 +187,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/07/25 01:38:34 $
+$Date: 2018/08/22 08:37:19 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: malware-google.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-google.html,v
retrieving revision 1.33
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -b -r1.33 -r1.34
--- malware-google.html 25 Jul 2018 01:43:57 -0000      1.33
+++ malware-google.html 22 Aug 2018 08:37:19 -0000      1.34
@@ -164,7 +164,17 @@
 </ul>
 
 <h3 id="surveillance">Google Surveillance</h3>
+
 <ul>
+  <li>
+    <p>Some Google apps on Android <a
+      
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-location-tracking-android-iphone-mobile";>
+      record the user's location even when users disable &ldquo;location
+      tracking&rdquo;</a>.</p>
+    <p>There are other ways to turn off the other kinds of location tracking,
+      but most users will be tricked by the misleading control.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li><p>Tracking software in popular Android apps is pervasive and
       sometimes very clever. Some trackers can <a
 
href="https://theintercept.com/2017/11/24/staggering-variety-of-clandestine-trackers-found-in-popular-android-apps/";>
@@ -323,7 +333,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/07/25 01:43:57 $
+$Date: 2018/08/22 08:37:19 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.191
retrieving revision 1.192
diff -u -b -r1.191 -r1.192
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       2 Aug 2018 07:08:19 -0000       1.191
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       22 Aug 2018 08:37:19 -0000      1.192
@@ -345,6 +345,16 @@
 
 <ul>
 <li>
+  <p>Some Google apps on Android <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-location-tracking-android-iphone-mobile";>
+    record the user's location even when users disable &ldquo;location
+    tracking&rdquo;</a>.</p>
+
+  <p>There are other ways to turn off the other kinds of location tracking,
+    but most users will be tricked by the misleading control.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
   <p>More
     than <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/16/child-apps-games-android-us-google-play-store-data-sharing-law-privacy";>50%
     of the 5,855 Android apps studied by researchers were found to
@@ -1206,6 +1216,24 @@
 <div style="clear: left;"></div>
 
 <ul>
+  <li>
+    <p>Crackers found a way to break the security of an Amazon device,
+      and <a
+      href="https://boingboing.net/2018/08/12/alexa-bob-carol.html";>
+      turn it into a listening device for them</a>.</p>
+
+    <p>It was very difficult for them to do this. The job would be much
+      easier for Amazon. And if some government such as China or the
+      US told Amazon to do this, or cease to sell the product in that
+      country, do you think Amazon would have the moral fiber to say
+      no?</p>
+
+    <p>These crackers are probably hackers too, but please <a
+      href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html";>
+      don't use &ldquo;hacking&rdquo; to mean &ldquo;breaking
+      security&rdquo;</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li><p>A medical insurance
         company <a 
href="https://wolfstreet.com/2018/04/14/our-dental-insurance-sent-us-free-internet-connected-toothbrushes-and-this-is-what-happened-next";>
         offers a gratis electronic toothbrush that snoops on its user
@@ -1691,7 +1719,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/08/02 07:08:19 $
+$Date: 2018/08/22 08:37:19 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>