www/philosophy/proprietary malware-apple.html p...

[Dora Scilipoti]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Dora Scilipoti <dora>   15/01/01 15:36:06

Modified files:
        philosophy/proprietary: malware-apple.html 
                                proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        Add new item and rearrange other items to contextualize it (RT 
#970859). Minor rearrengament of spaces.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/proprietary/malware-apple.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.17&r2=1.18
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.21&r2=1.22

Patches:
Index: malware-apple.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/proprietary/malware-apple.html,v
retrieving revision 1.17
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -b -r1.17 -r1.18
--- malware-apple.html  13 Dec 2014 00:05:13 -0000      1.17
+++ malware-apple.html  1 Jan 2015 15:36:02 -0000       1.18
@@ -32,30 +32,19 @@
 <p>Here's how Apple's systems are malware.</p>
 
 <ul>
-  <li>
-       <p>
-         <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans";>More
-               examples of Apple's arbitrary and inconsistent censorship</a>.
-       </p>
-  </li>
-
-  <li><p>Apple
-         arbitrarily <a 
href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/01/ios-8-1-signing-window-closed/";>blocks
-         users from installing old versions of iOS</a>.
-       </p>
-  </li>
 
-  <li><p>Apple <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/04/apple-deleted-music-ipods-rivals-steve-jobs";>deleted
-               from iPods the music that users had got from internet music 
stores
-               that competed with iTunes</a>.
-       </p>
+  <li><p><a 
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/30/how-one-mans-private-files-ended-up-on-apples-icloud-without-his-consent/";>
+  MacOS automatically sends to Apple servers unsaved documents being 
+  edited</a>. The <a 
+  
href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/apple_copies_yo.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter";>
+  things you have not decided to save are even more sensitive than the 
+  things you have stored in files</a>.</p>
   </li>
 
-  <li><p>Apple has made
-         various <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/04/apple-data-privacy-icloud";>MacOS
-         programs send files to Apple servers without asking
-         permission</a>. This exposes the files to Big Brother and perhaps to
-         other snoops.</p>
+  <li><p>Apple has made various 
+  <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/04/apple-data-privacy-icloud";>
+  MacOS programs send files to Apple servers without asking permission</a>. 
+  This exposes the files to Big Brother and perhaps to other snoops.</p>
 
        <p>It also demonstrates how you can't trust proprietary software,
          because even if today's version doesn't have a malicious
@@ -63,41 +52,45 @@
          remove the malfeature unless many users push back hard, and the users
          can't remove it themselves.</p>
   </li>
+
   <li><p>Various operations in
       <a 
href="http://lifehacker.com/safari-and-spotlight-can-send-data-to-apple-heres-how-1648453540";>
        the latest MacOS send reports to Apple</a> servers.</p>
   </li>
 
-  <li><p>Apple admits the
-      <a 
href="http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/spotlight-suggestions-in-os-x-yosemite-and-ios-are-you-staying-private/";>
-       spying in a search facility</a>,
-      but there's a lot
-      <a href="https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home";>more 
snooping that Apple has not talked about</a>.</p>
+  <li><p>Spyware in MacOS:
+  <a 
href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/privacy-advocates-worry-over-new-apple-iphone-tracking-feature-161836223.html";>
+  Spotlight search</a> sends users' search terms to Apple.</p>
   </li>
   
-  <li><p>Spyware in MacOS:
-  <a 
href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/privacy-advocates-worry-over-new-apple-iphone-tracking-feature-161836223.html";>Spotlight
-  search</a> sends users' search terms to Apple.</p>
+  <li><p>Apple admits the
+  <a 
href="http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/spotlight-suggestions-in-os-x-yosemite-and-ios-are-you-staying-private/";>
+  spying in a search facility</a>, but there's a lot
+  <a href="https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home";>
+  more snooping that Apple has not talked about</a>.</p>
   </li>
 
    <li><p><a 
href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-yo.html";>
    iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is a jail for
    users.</a>  That means it imposes censorship of application programs.</p>
 
-   <p>Apple has used this power
-   to <a 
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html";>
+  <p>Apple has used this power to 
+  <a 
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html";>
    censor all bitcoin apps</a> for the iThings.</p>
 
    <p>Apple, in the iThings, pioneered the practice of general purpose
    computers that are jails, and the term comes from iThing users, who
-   referred to escaping from the censorship as
-   &ldquo;jailbreaking.&rdquo;</p>
+  referred to escaping from the censorship as &ldquo;jailbreaking.&rdquo;</p>
 
    <p>Here is an article about the <a 
    href="http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2008/03/07/code-signing-and-you/";> 
    code signing</a> that the iThings use to jail the user.</p>
    </li>
 
+  <li><p>Apple arbitrarily 
+  <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/01/ios-8-1-signing-window-closed/";>
+  blocks users from installing old versions of iOS</a>.</p>
+  </li>
 
    <li><p><a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/23/iphone-backdoors-surveillance-forensic-services";>
    Several &ldquo;features&rdquo; of iOS seem to exist for no possible 
@@ -157,12 +150,23 @@
    
href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/05/new-guidelines-outline-what-iphone-data-apple-can-give-to-police/";>
    remotely extract some data from iPhones for the state</a>.
    </p>
-   <p>This may have improved
-   with <a 
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apple-will-no-longer-unlock-most-iphones-ipads-for-police-even-with-search-warrants/2014/09/17/2612af58-3ed2-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html";>
-   iOS 8 security improvements</a>; but <a 
href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5199";>
+  <p>This may have improved with 
+  <a 
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apple-will-no-longer-unlock-most-iphones-ipads-for-police-even-with-search-
 warrants/2014/09/17/2612af58-3ed2-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html">
+  iOS 8 security improvements</a>; but 
+  <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5199";>
    not as much as Apple claims</a>.</p>
    </li>
 
+  <li><p>Apple 
+  <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/04/apple-deleted-music-ipods-rivals-steve-jobs";>
+  deleted from iPods the music that users had got from internet music 
+  stores that competed with iTunes</a>.</p>
+  </li> 
+
+  <li><p><a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans";>
+  More examples of Apple's arbitrary and inconsistent censorship</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
 </ul>
 
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@@ -223,7 +227,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2014/12/13 00:05:13 $
+$Date: 2015/01/01 15:36:02 $
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 </div>

Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.21
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -b -r1.21 -r1.22
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       30 Nov 2014 15:17:58 -0000      1.21
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       1 Jan 2015 15:36:04 -0000       1.22
@@ -115,8 +115,7 @@
 
   <li><p>And there's a
       <a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40836.html";>
-      secret NSA key in Windows</a>,
-      whose functions we don't know.</p>
+      secret NSA key in Windows</a>, whose functions we don't know.</p>
   </li>
 </ul>
 
@@ -130,6 +129,14 @@
 </div>
 
 <ul>
+  <li><p><a 
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/30/how-one-mans-private-files-ended-up-on-apples-icloud-without-his-consent/";>
+      MacOS automatically sends to Apple servers unsaved documents being 
+      edited</a>. The <a 
+      
href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/apple_copies_yo.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter/";>
+      things you have not decided to save are even more sensitive than 
+      the things you have stored in files</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li><p>Apple has made various 
       <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/04/apple-data-privacy-icloud";>
       MacOS programs send files to Apple servers without asking
@@ -434,10 +441,10 @@
   <span class="anchor-reference-id">(<a 
href="#SpywareInTVSets">#SpywareInTVSets</a>)</span>
 </div>
 
-Emo Phillips made a joke: The other day a woman came up to me and
+<p>Emo Phillips made a joke: The other day a woman came up to me and
 said, &ldquo;Didn't I see you on television?&rdquo; I said, &ldquo;I
 don't know. You can't see out the other way.&rdquo; Evidently that was
-before Amazon &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs.
+before Amazon &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs.</p>
 
 <ul>
   <li><p>The Amazon &ldquo;Smart&rdquo; TV
@@ -592,7 +599,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/11/30 15:17:58 $
+$Date: 2015/01/01 15:36:04 $
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 </p>
 </div>