www/philosophy proprietary-back-doors.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

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+<title>Proprietary Back Doors - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/proprietary-back-doors.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Proprietary Back Doors</h2>
+
+<p>Here are examples of proprietary software that has documented back
+doors.</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+<p>Microsoft Windows has a universal back door through which
+<a 
href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201806263";>
+any change whatsoever can be imposed on the users</a>.
+</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>The Amazon Kindle has a back door that has been used
+to <a 
href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/";>
+remotely erase books</a>.
+</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>HP &ldquo;storage appliances&rdquo; that use the proprietary
+&ldquo;Left Hand&rdquo; operating system have back doors that give
+HP <a 
href="https://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/hp-keeps-installing-secret-backdoors-in-enterprise-storage/";>remote
+login access</a> to them.  HP claims that this does not give HP access
+to the customer's data, but if the back door allows installation of
+software changes, a change could be installed that would give access
+to the customer's data.
+</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
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+
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+<p>Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2013/07/22 09:38:56 $
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+</p>
+</div>
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+</html>