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Therese Godefroy |
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www/proprietary proprietary-back-doors.html pro... |
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Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:20:56 -0500 (EST) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/11/13 07:20:56
Modified files:
proprietary : proprietary-back-doors.html proprietary.html
proprietary/workshop: mal.rec
Log message:
Add Corel Paint item (RT #1335996);
extend proprietary-back-doors#install-delete to include disabling
programs.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.73&r2=1.74
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.47&r2=1.48
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8
Patches:
Index: proprietary-back-doors.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html,v
retrieving revision 1.73
retrieving revision 1.74
diff -u -b -r1.73 -r1.74
--- proprietary-back-doors.html 25 Oct 2018 10:12:19 -0000 1.73
+++ proprietary-back-doors.html 13 Nov 2018 12:20:55 -0000 1.74
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
<p class="c" style="font-size: 1.1em">
<a href="#spy">Spying</a>
<a href="#alter-data">Altering user's data/settings</a>
- <a href="#install-delete">Installing/deleting programs</a>
+ <a
href="#install-delete">Installing/deleting/disabling programs</a>
<a href="#universal">Full control</a>
<a href="#other">Other/undefined</a>
</p>
@@ -198,9 +198,47 @@
</ul>
-<h3 id='install-delete'>Installing or deleting programs</h3>
+<h3 id='install-delete'>Installing, deleting or disabling programs</h3>
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201811100">
+ <p>Corel Paintshop Pro has a <a
+
href="https://torrentfreak.com/corel-wrongly-accuses-licensed-user-of-piracy-disables-software-remotely-181110/";>
+ back door that can make it cease to function</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The article is full of confusions, errors and biases that we have
+ an obligation to expose, given that we are making a link to them.</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Getting a patent does not “enable” a company to do
+ any particular thing in its products. What it does enable the company
+ to do is sue other companies if they do some particular thing in
+ their products.</li>
+
+ <li>A company's policies about when to attack users through a back
+ door are beside the point. Inserting the back door is wrong in the
+ first place, and using the back door is always wrong too. No software
+ developer should have that power over users.</li>
+
+ <li>“<a
+ href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy">Piracy</a>” means
+ attacking ships. Using that word to refer to sharing copies is a smear;
+ please don't smear sharing.</li>
+
+ <li><p>The idea of “protecting our IP” is
+ total confusion. The term “IP” itself is a <a
+ href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">bogus generalization about things
+ that have nothing in common</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>In addition, to speak of “protecting” that bogus
+ generalization is a separate absurdity. It's like calling the cops
+ because neighbors' kids are playing on your front yard, and saying
+ that you're "protecting the boundary line". The kids can't do harm
+ to the boundary line, not even with a jackhammer, because it is an
+ abstraction and can't be affected by physical action.</p></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M201804010">
<p>Some “Smart” TVs automatically <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180405014828/https:/twitter.com/buro9/status/980349887006076928";>
@@ -514,7 +552,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/10/25 10:12:19 $
+$Date: 2018/11/13 12:20:55 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.47
retrieving revision 1.48
diff -u -b -r1.47 -r1.48
--- proprietary.html 8 Nov 2018 18:31:48 -0000 1.47
+++ proprietary.html 13 Nov 2018 12:20:55 -0000 1.48
@@ -141,6 +141,44 @@
<h3 id="latest">Latest additions</h3>
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201811100">
+ <p>Corel Paintshop Pro has a <a
+
href="https://torrentfreak.com/corel-wrongly-accuses-licensed-user-of-piracy-disables-software-remotely-181110/";>
+ back door that can make it cease to function</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The article is full of confusions, errors and biases that we have
+ an obligation to expose, given that we are making a link to them.</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Getting a patent does not “enable” a company to do
+ any particular thing in its products. What it does enable the company
+ to do is sue other companies if they do some particular thing in
+ their products.</li>
+
+ <li>A company's policies about when to attack users through a back
+ door are beside the point. Inserting the back door is wrong in the
+ first place, and using the back door is always wrong too. No software
+ developer should have that power over users.</li>
+
+ <li>“<a
+ href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy">Piracy</a>” means
+ attacking ships. Using that word to refer to sharing copies is a smear;
+ please don't smear sharing.</li>
+
+ <li><p>The idea of “protecting our IP” is
+ total confusion. The term “IP” itself is a <a
+ href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">bogus generalization about things
+ that have nothing in common</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>In addition, to speak of “protecting” that bogus
+ generalization is a separate absurdity. It's like calling the cops
+ because neighbors' kids are playing on your front yard, and saying
+ that you're "protecting the boundary line". The kids can't do harm
+ to the boundary line, not even with a jackhammer, because it is an
+ abstraction and can't be affected by physical action.</p></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M201810300">
<p>Nearly all “home security cameras” <a
href="https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/d-link-camera-poses-data-security-risk--consumer-reports-finds/";>
@@ -185,14 +223,6 @@
hardware cannot collect any of that data, or that the software
is free so we know it won't collect any of that data.</p>
</li>
-
- <li id="M201810150">
- <p>Printer manufacturers are very innovative—at blocking the
- use of independent replacement ink cartridges. Their “security
- upgrades” occasionally impose new forms of cartridge DRM. <a
-
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa98ab/printer-makers-are-crippling-cheap-ink-cartridges-via-bogus-security-updates";>
- HP and Epson have done this</a>.</p>
- </li>
</ul>
@@ -253,7 +283,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/11/08 18:31:48 $
+$Date: 2018/11/13 12:20:55 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
Index: workshop/mal.rec
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -b -r1.7 -r1.8
--- workshop/mal.rec 8 Nov 2018 18:31:48 -0000 1.7
+++ workshop/mal.rec 13 Nov 2018 12:20:56 -0000 1.8
@@ -25,6 +25,48 @@
#### Please don't remove the blank line after this marker! ####
# ADD NEW BLURB HERE
+Added: 2018-11-13
+Id: 201811100
+RT: 1335996
+PubDate: 2018-11-10
+Target: proprietary-back-doors.html install-delete
+Keywords: Corel
+Blurb: <p>Corel Paintshop Pro has a <a
++
href="https://torrentfreak.com/corel-wrongly-accuses-licensed-user-of-piracy-disables-software-remotely-181110/";>
++ back door that can make it cease to function</a>.</p>
++
++ <p>The article is full of confusions, errors and biases that we have
++ an obligation to expose, given that we are making a link to them.</p>
++
++ <ul>
++ <li>Getting a patent does not “enable” a company to do
++ any particular thing in its products. What it does enable the company
++ to do is sue other companies if they do some particular thing in
++ their products.</li>
++
++ <li>A company's policies about when to attack users through a back
++ door are beside the point. Inserting the back door is wrong in the
++ first place, and using the back door is always wrong too. No software
++ developer should have that power over users.</li>
++
++ <li>“<a
++ href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy">Piracy</a>” means
++ attacking ships. Using that word to refer to sharing copies is a smear;
++ please don't smear sharing.</li>
++
++ <li><p>The idea of “protecting our IP” is
++ total confusion. The term “IP” itself is a <a
++ href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">bogus generalization about things
++ that have nothing in common</a>.</p>
++
++ <p>In addition, to speak of “protecting” that bogus
++ generalization is a separate absurdity. It's like calling the cops
++ because neighbors' kids are playing on your front yard, and saying
++ that you're "protecting the boundary line". The kids can't do harm
++ to the boundary line, not even with a jackhammer, because it is an
++ abstraction and can't be affected by physical action.</p></li>
++ </ul>
+
Added: 2018-11-04
Id: 201810300
RT: 1333971
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