www/proprietary proprietary-insecurity.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/10/01 04:00:23

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-insecurity.html 

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

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.86&r2=1.87

Patches:
Index: proprietary-insecurity.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html,v
retrieving revision 1.86
retrieving revision 1.87
diff -u -b -r1.86 -r1.87
--- proprietary-insecurity.html 26 Sep 2018 17:06:47 -0000      1.86
+++ proprietary-insecurity.html 1 Oct 2018 08:00:23 -0000       1.87
@@ -46,6 +46,20 @@
 to present the specifics.</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";>
@@ -361,8 +375,8 @@
 
   <li id="M201602240">
     <p id="nissan-modem">The Nissan Leaf has a built-in
-    cell phone modem which allows effectively anyone <a
-    href="https://www.troyhunt.com/controlling-vehicle-features-of-nissan/";>to
+    cell phone modem which allows effectively anyone to <a
+    href="https://www.troyhunt.com/controlling-vehicle-features-of-nissan/";>
     access its computers remotely and make changes in various
     settings</a>.</p>
   
@@ -624,7 +638,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/09/26 17:06:47 $
+$Date: 2018/10/01 08:00:23 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>