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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: GNUN <gnun> 18/10/23 03:28:14
Modified files:
proprietary : malware-games.de.html
proprietary/po : malware-games.de-diff.html
Log message:
Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-games.de.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/malware-games.de-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.5&r2=1.6
Patches:
Index: malware-games.de.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-games.de.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -b -r1.3 -r1.4
--- malware-games.de.html 2 Mar 2018 06:35:54 -0000 1.3
+++ malware-games.de.html 23 Oct 2018 07:28:14 -0000 1.4
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/malware-games.de.po</a>'
--><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/malware-games.html"
--><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" value="/proprietary/po/malware-games.de-diff.html"
- --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2018-01-01" -->
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2018-08-24" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.de.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Letzte Ãnderung:
-$Date: 2018/03/02 06:35:54 $
+$Date: 2018/10/23 07:28:14 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
Index: po/malware-games.de-diff.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/po/malware-games.de-diff.html,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -b -r1.5 -r1.6
--- po/malware-games.de-diff.html 25 Jul 2018 02:00:51 -0000 1.5
+++ po/malware-games.de-diff.html 23 Oct 2018 07:28:14 -0000 1.6
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@
</style></head>
<body><pre>
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.79</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.84</em></ins></span> -->
+<!--
+<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Please do not edit lists with items such as <li id="Mnnnnnnnn">!
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-->
+<!--</em></ins></span> Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.79</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.84</em></ins></span> -->
<title>Malware in Games
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-games.translist" -->
@@ -21,7 +26,7 @@
<p><a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of
proprietary
malware</a></p>
-<div class="highlight-para">
+<div <span
class="removed"><del><strong>class="highlight-para"></strong></del></span>
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>class="comment"></em></ins></span>
<p>
<em>Malware</em> means software designed to function in ways that
mistreat or harm the user. (This does not include accidental errors.)
@@ -38,29 +43,109 @@
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><p>If you know of an example that ought
to be in this page but isn't
-here, please write
-to <a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>
-to inform us. Please include the URL of a trustworthy reference or two
-to present the specifics.</p></em></ins></span>
-</div>
+<span class="removed"><del><strong></div>
+
+<p>Here are</strong></del></span>
-<p>Here are examples of malware in games.</p>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Some</em></ins></span> examples of
malware in <span class="removed"><del><strong>games.</p>
<ul>
+<li><p>nVidia's</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>games are listed below.</p>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><li>
- <p>The driver for a certain gaming keyboard <a
href="https://thehackernews.com/2017/11/mantistek-keyboard-keylogger.html">sends
information to
- China</a>.</p>
-</li></em></ins></span>
+<div class="important">
+<p>If you know of an example that ought to be in this page but isn't
+here, please write
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>
+to inform us. Please include the URL of a trustworthy reference or two
+to present the specifics.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="column-limit" id="malware-games"></div>
-<li><p>nVidia's proprietary GeForce Experience <a
href="http://www.gamersnexus.net/industry/2672-geforce-experience-data-transfer-analysis">makes
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201807310">
+ <p>A nonfree video game, available through the nonfree Steam client,
<a
+
href="https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/274552-great-now-games-are-hijacking-systems-with-">
+ included a “miner”</a>, i.e. an executable that hijacks
+ the CPU in users' computers to mine a cryptocurrency.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201806250">
+ <p>The game Metal Gear Rising for
+ MacOS was tethered to a server. The company <a
+
href="http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/400087-metal-gear-rising-mac-unplayable-drm">
+ shut down the server, and all copies stopped working</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201806240">
+ <p>Red Shell is a spyware that
+ is found in many proprietary games. It <a
+
href="https://nebulous.cloud/threads/red-shell-illegal-spyware-for-steam-games.31924/">
+ tracks data on users' computers and sends it to third
parties</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201804144">
+ <p>ArenaNet surreptitiously installed a spyware
+ program along with an update to the massive
+ multiplayer game Guild War 2. The spyware allowed ArenaNet <a
+
href="https://techraptor.net/content/arenanet-used-spyware-anti-cheat-for-guild-wars-2-banwave">
+ to snoop on all open processes running on its user's
computer</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201712060">
+ <p>Learn how <a
+
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-farrell/the-fascinating-psycholog_b_6076502.html">
+ gratis-to-play-and-not-win-much games manipulate their useds
+ psychologically</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>These manipulative behaviors are malicious functionalities, and
they
+ are possible because the game is proprietary. If it were free, people
+ could publish a non-manipulative version and play that instead.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201711070">
+ <p>The driver for a certain gaming keyboard <a
+
href="https://thehackernews.com/2017/11/mantistek-keyboard-keylogger.html">sends
+ information to China</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201611070">
+ <p>nVidia's</em></ins></span> proprietary GeForce Experience <a
+
href="http://www.gamersnexus.net/industry/2672-geforce-experience-data-transfer-analysis">makes
users identify themselves and then sends personal data about them to
nVidia servers</a>.</p>
-</li>
+ </li>
-<li><p>Modern gratis game cr…apps
- <a
href="http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-a-free-to-play-producer/">
+<span
class="removed"><del><strong><li><p>Modern</strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201609240">
+ <p>A Capcom's Street Fighter V update <a
+
href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter_v/">
+ installed a driver that could be used as a back door by
+ any application installed on a Windows computer</a>, but was <a
+
href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/09/24/street-fighter-v-removes-new-anti-crack">
+ immediately rolled back</a> in response to public outcry.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201605200">
+ <p>Oculus Rift games now have <a
+
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vv77ea/new-oculus-drm-cross-platform">
+ DRM meant to prevent running them on other systems</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201512290">
+ <p>Many <a
+
href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/12/29/how-much-data-are-video-games-collecting-about-you.html/">
+ video game consoles snoop on their users and report to the
+ internet</a>—even what their users weigh.</p>
+
+ <p>A game console is a computer, and you can't trust a computer with
+ a nonfree operating system.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201509160">
+ <p>Modern</em></ins></span> gratis game cr…apps <a
+
href="http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-a-free-to-play-producer/">
collect a wide range of data about their users and their users'
friends and associates</a>.</p>
@@ -68,38 +153,88 @@
collected by various cr…apps and sites made by different
companies.</p>
- <p>They use this data to manipulate people to buy things, and hunt
- for “whales” who can be led to spend a lot of money. They
- also use a back door to manipulate the game play for specific
players.</p>
+ <p>They use this data to manipulate people to buy things, and hunt
for
+ “whales” who can be led to spend a lot of money. They also
+ use a back door to manipulate the game play for specific players.</p>
<p>While the article describes gratis games, games that cost money
can use the same tactics.</p>
-</li>
+ </li>
-<li>
-<p>Oculus Rift games now have <a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/new-oculus-drm-cross-platform"></strong></del></span>
-<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vv77ea/new-oculus-drm-cross-platform"></em></ins></span>
-DRM meant to prevent running them on other systems</a>.</p>
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><li>
+<p>Oculus Rift games now have
+<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/new-oculus-drm-cross-platform">
+DRM meant to prevent running</strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201410130">
+ <p><a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/nintendo-updates-take-wii-u-hostage-until-you-agree-new-legal-terms">Nintendo
+ remotely sabotaged all Wiis, making</em></ins></span> them <span
class="removed"><del><strong>on other systems</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Some proprietary <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/19/apple-talking-cats-in-app-purchases">
-games lure children to spend their parents' money</a>.
-</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>Angry Birds
- <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/spy-agencies-scour-phone-apps-for-personal-data.html">
- spies for companies, and the NSA takes advantage to spy through it
too</a>.
- Here's information on
- <a
href="http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2012/11/analysis-of-what-information-angry.html">
+games lure children</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>refuse</em></ins></span> to <span
class="removed"><del><strong>spend their parents' money</a>.
+</p></strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>work unless
the
+ user agrees to a new EULA</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We can be quite sure this EULA is unjust because injustice is the
+ only motive for imposing an EULA.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
+
+<span
class="removed"><del><strong><li><p>Angry</strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201401280">
+ <p>Angry</em></ins></span> Birds <a
+
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/spy-agencies-scour-phone-apps-for-personal-data.html">
+ spies for companies, and the NSA takes advantage
+ to spy through it too</a>. Here's information on <a
+
href="http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2012/11/analysis-of-what-information-angry.html">
more spyware apps</a>.</p>
- <p><a
href="http://www.propublica.org/article/spy-agencies-probe-angry-birds-and-other-apps-for-personal-data">
+
+ <p><a
+
href="http://www.propublica.org/article/spy-agencies-probe-angry-birds-and-other-apps-for-personal-data">
More about NSA app spying</a>.</p>
-</li>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201401190">
+ <p>Some proprietary <a
+
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/19/apple-talking-cats-in-app-purchases">
+ games lure children to spend their parents' money</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201105070">
+ <p><a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/sony">The
Playstation
+ 3 is a tyrant</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201003300">
+ <p>Sony <a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/sony-steals-feature-from-your-playstation-3">sabotaged
+ the Playstation 3</a> with a firmware downgrade that removed the
+ feature that allowed users to run GNU/Linux on it.</p>
+
+ <p>Sony subsequently sent police after Geohot, after he cracked the
+ code that blocked users from changing the firmware, and we responded by
+ calling for a <a href="http://boycottsony.org">boycott of
Sony</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>In a court settlement Sony is <a
+
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/if-you-used-to-run-linux-on-your-ps3-you-could-get-55-from-sony/">
+ now paying for the sabotage</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M200510200">
+ <p>Blizzard Warden is a hidden
+ “cheating-prevention” program that <a
+ href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2005/10/new-gaming-feature-spyware">
+ spies on every process running on a gamer's computer and sniffs a
+ good deal of personal data</a>, including lots of activities which
+ have nothing to do with cheating.</p>
+ </li></em></ins></span>
</ul>
+
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<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
<div id="footer">
@@ -158,7 +293,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/07/25 02:00:51 $
+$Date: 2018/10/23 07:28:14 $
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</p>
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