www/philosophy malware-mobiles.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/04/22 15:52:36

Modified files:
        philosophy     : malware-mobiles.html 

Log message:
        Add a general explanation at the top, and link to malware-apple.html.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/malware-mobiles.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3

Patches:
Index: malware-mobiles.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/malware-mobiles.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -b -r1.2 -r1.3
--- malware-mobiles.html        16 Apr 2014 18:03:06 -0000      1.2
+++ malware-mobiles.html        22 Apr 2014 15:52:36 -0000      1.3
@@ -6,7 +6,27 @@
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
 <h2>Malware in Mobile Devices</h2>
 
-<p>Mobile devices often contain malware. Here are some examples.</p>
+<p>
+<em>Malware</em> means software designed to function in ways that
+mistreat or harm the user.  (This does not include accidental errors.)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Malware and nonfree software are two different issues.  The difference
+between <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a> and
+nonfree software is in
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
+whether the users have control of the program or vice versa</a>.  It's
+not directly a question of what the program <em>does</em> when it
+runs.  However, in practice nonfree software is often malware, because
+the developer's awareness that the users would be powerless to fix any
+malicious functionalities tempts the developer to impose some.
+</p>
+
+<p>Here are examples of malware in mobile devices.  See also
+the <a href="/philosophy/malware-apple.html">the Apple malware
+page</a> for malicious functionalities specific to the Apple
+iThings.</p>
 
 <ul>
   <li><p>Portable phones with GPS will send their GPS location on remote
@@ -110,7 +130,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/04/16 18:03:06 $
+$Date: 2014/04/22 15:52:36 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>