www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html m...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/10/01 03:47:20

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-surveillance.html 
                         malware-appliances.html 

Log message:
        Add Honeywell's thermostats (RT #1326061).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.198&r2=1.199
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-appliances.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.48&r2=1.49

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.198
retrieving revision 1.199
diff -u -b -r1.198 -r1.199
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       30 Sep 2018 18:00:47 -0000      1.198
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       1 Oct 2018 07:47:19 -0000       1.199
@@ -1547,6 +1547,20 @@
 </div>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201809260">
+    <p>Honeywell's "smart" thermostats communicate
+    only through the company's server. They have
+    all the nasty characteristics of such devices: <a
+    
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/honeywell-iot-thermostats-server-outage-2018-9";>
+    surveillance, and danger of sabotage</a> (of a specific user, or of
+    all users at once), as well as the risk of an outage (which is what
+    just happened).</p>
+
+    <p>In addition, setting the desired temperature requires running
+    nonfree software. With an old-fashioned thermostat, you can do it
+    using controls right on the thermostat.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201808120">
     <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";>
@@ -1965,7 +1979,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/09/30 18:00:47 $
+$Date: 2018/10/01 07:47:19 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: malware-appliances.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-appliances.html,v
retrieving revision 1.48
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -b -r1.48 -r1.49
--- malware-appliances.html     26 Sep 2018 17:08:09 -0000      1.48
+++ malware-appliances.html     1 Oct 2018 07:47:19 -0000       1.49
@@ -41,6 +41,20 @@
 <p>Here are examples of malware in appliances.</p>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201809260">
+    <p>Honeywell's "smart" thermostats communicate
+    only through the company's server. They have
+    all the nasty characteristics of such devices: <a
+    
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/honeywell-iot-thermostats-server-outage-2018-9";>
+    surveillance, and danger of sabotage</a> (of a specific user, or of
+    all users at once), as well as the risk of an outage (which is what
+    just happened).</p>
+
+    <p>In addition, setting the desired temperature requires running
+    nonfree software. With an old-fashioned thermostat, you can do it
+    using controls right on the thermostat.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201809240">
     <p>Researchers have discovered how to <a
     
href="http://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2018-09-24-it-security-secret-messages-alexa-and-co";>
@@ -83,7 +97,7 @@
   <li id="M201802120">
     <p>Apple devices lock users in <a
     
href="https://gizmodo.com/homepod-is-the-ultimate-apple-product-in-a-bad-way-1822883347";>
-    solely to Apple services</a> by being designed to be imcompatible
+    solely to Apple services</a> by being designed to be incompatible
     with all other options, ethical or unethical.</p>
   </li>
 
@@ -771,7 +785,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/09/26 17:08:09 $
+$Date: 2018/10/01 07:47:19 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>