www/philosophy malware-microsoft.html

[Dora Scilipoti]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Dora Scilipoti <dora>   14/05/12 19:47:23

Modified files:
        philosophy     : malware-microsoft.html 

Log message:
        Move up new item about backdoors. Put general statement about Windows 
at the end of the page.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/malware-microsoft.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.8&r2=1.9

Patches:
Index: malware-microsoft.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/malware-microsoft.html,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -b -r1.8 -r1.9
--- malware-microsoft.html      12 May 2014 19:15:29 -0000      1.8
+++ malware-microsoft.html      12 May 2014 19:47:22 -0000      1.9
@@ -33,6 +33,15 @@
   href="http://slated.org/windows_by_stealth_the_updates_you_dont_want";>
   this was used</a>.</p></li>
 
+  <li><p><a 
+  
href="https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222518/Microsoft_We_can_remotely_delete_Windows_8_apps";>
+  Windows 8 also has a back door for remotely deleting apps</a>.</p>
+
+  <p>You might well decide to let a security service that you trust
+  remotely <em>deactivate</em> programs that it considers malicious.
+  But there is no excuse for <em>deleting</em> the programs, and you
+  should have the right to decide who (if anyone) to trust in this 
way.</p></li>
+
   <li><p>Windows 8's back doors are so gaping that <a 
   
href="http://drleonardcoldwell.com/2013/08/23/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-linked-to-nsa/";>
   the German government has decided it can't be trusted</a>.</p></li>
@@ -66,20 +75,6 @@
   Microsoft informs the NSA of bugs in Windows before fixing them.</a></p></li>
 
   <li><p><a 
-  
href="https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222518/Microsoft_We_can_remotely_delete_Windows_8_apps";>
-  Windows 8 also has a back door for remotely deleting apps</a>.</p>
-
-  <p>
-  You might well decide to let a security service that you trust
-  remotely <em>deactivate</em> programs that it considers malicious.
-  But there is no excuse for <em>deleting</em> the programs, and you
-  should have the right to decide who (if anyone) to trust in this way.
-  </p>
-
-  <p>As this page shows, if you do want to clean your computer of malware,
-  the first software to delete is Windows.</p></li>
-
-  <li><p><a 
   
href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/04/windows-xp-end-of-an-era-end-of-an-error/index.htm";>
   Microsoft cut off security fixes for Windows XP, except to some big users 
   that pay exorbitantly.</a></p>
@@ -90,6 +85,9 @@
   someone else to work on the program for them.</p></li>
 </ul>
 
+<p>As this page shows, if you do want to clean your computer of malware,
+the first software to delete is Windows.</p>
+
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
 <div id="footer">
@@ -147,7 +145,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/05/12 19:15:29 $
+$Date: 2014/05/12 19:47:22 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>