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Fabio Pesari |
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www/server/staging/proprietary malware-microsof... |
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Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:33:09 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Fabio Pesari <fabiop> 15/06/24 09:33:09
Added files:
server/staging/proprietary: malware-microsoft.html
Log message:
Uploaded prototype for malware-microsoft.html [RT #1024013]
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: malware-microsoft.html
===================================================================
RCS file: malware-microsoft.html
diff -N malware-microsoft.html
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head>
+<!-- start of server/head-include-1.html -->
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+<link rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+<link rel="icon" type="image/png"
href="https://gnu.org/graphics/gnu-head-mini.png";>
+<meta name="ICBM" content="42.355469,-71.058627">
+<meta name="DC.title" content="gnu.org">
+<!-- end of server/head-include-1.html -->
+
+<!-- end of server/header.html -->
+
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<title>Microsoft's Software Is Malware
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+ <!-- begin translist file -->
+
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html"; hreflang="x-default">
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html"; title="English"
lang="en">
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="de"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.de.html"; title="Deutsch"
lang="de">
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="es"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.es.html"; title="español"
lang="es">
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="fr"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.fr.html"; title="français"
lang="fr">
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="it"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.it.html"; title="italiano"
lang="it">
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="ja"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.ja.html"; title="æ¥æ¬èª"
lang="ja">
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="ru"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.ru.html";
title="ÑÑÑÑкий" lang="ru">
+<!-- end translist file -->
+
+<style type="text/css" media="print,screen">
+div.companies { float: right; margin-bottom: .5em; }
+div.malfunctions { max-width: 27em; }
+<!--
+#content div.toc li { list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; }
+#content div.toc { margin-top: 1em; }
+-->
+</style>
+<!-- start of server/banner.html -->
+<!-- start of head-include-2.html -->
+<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="/combo.css" media="screen">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="/mini.css" media="handheld">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="/layout.min.css" media="screen">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.min.css" media="print">
+<!-- end of head-include-2.html -->
+
+</head>
+<body>
+<div class="inner">
+<!-- start of server/body-include-1.html -->
+
+
+
+<div id="toplinks">
+ <a href="#content">Skip to main text</a>
+ <span class="gnun-split"></span>
+ <a
href="https://gnu.org/server/select-language.html?callback=/philosophy/malware-microsoft.html";
rel="nofollow">
+ Set language
+ <span class="gnun-split"></span>
+ </a>
+</div> <!-- /toplinks -->
+
+<div id="searcher">
+ <form method="get" action="//www.gnu.org/cgi-bin/estseek.cgi">
+ <div>
+ <input name="phrase" id="phrase" size="18" accesskey="s" value="Why
GNU/Linux?" onfocus="this.value=''" type="text">
+ <input value="Search" type="submit">
+ </div>
+ </form>
+</div><!-- /searcher -->
+
+<div id="translations">
+<p>
+<span dir="ltr" class="original"><a hreflang="en"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html";
lang="en">English</a> [en]</span>
+<span dir="ltr"><a hreflang="de"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.de.html";
lang="de">Deutsch</a> [de]</span>
+<span dir="ltr"><a hreflang="es"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.es.html";
lang="es">español</a> [es]</span>
+<span dir="ltr"><a hreflang="fr"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.fr.html";
lang="fr">français</a> [fr]</span>
+<span dir="ltr"><a hreflang="it"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.it.html";
lang="it">italiano</a> [it]</span>
+<span dir="ltr"><a hreflang="ja"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.ja.html";
lang="ja">æ¥æ¬èª</a> [ja]</span>
+<span dir="ltr"><a hreflang="ru"
href="https://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.ru.html";
lang="ru">ÑÑÑÑкий</a> [ru]</span>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- end of server/body-include-1.html -->
+
+<!-- start of server/body-include-2 -->
+
+<div id="header">
+<div id="fsf-frame">
+<p id="join-fsf"><a
href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom?referrer=4052";>JOIN THE FSF</a></p>
+<div id="fssbox">
+<p><a href="http://www.fsf.org/fss";>Free Software Supporter</a></p>
+<form action="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?reset=1&gid=31";
method="post">
+ <div>
+ <input name="postURL" value="" type="hidden">
+ <input name="group[25]" value="1" type="hidden">
+ <input name="cancelURL"
value="https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/profile?reset=1&gid=31"; type="hidden">
+ <input name="_qf_default" value="Edit:cancel" type="hidden">
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ <input id="frmEmail" name="email-Primary" size="18" maxlength="80"
value="email address" onfocus="this.value=''" type="text">
+ <input name="_qf_Edit_next" value="Sign up" type="submit">
+ </p>
+</form>
+</div><!-- /fssbox -->
+</div><!-- /fsf-frame -->
+
+<div id="gnu-banner">
+ <a href="https://gnu.org/";>
+ <img src="/heckert_gnu.png" alt=" [A GNU head] "><strong>GNU</strong>
Operating System</a>
+</div><!-- /gnu-banner -->
+
+<p id="fsf-support">Sponsored by the <a href="#mission-statement">Free
Software Foundation</a></p>
+
+</div><!-- /header -->
+
+<div id="navigation">
+
+ <ul>
+ <li id="tabAboutGNU"><a
href="https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html";>About GNU</a></li>
+ <li id="tabPhilosophy"><a
href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html";>Philosophy</a></li>
+ <li id="tabLicenses"><a
href="https://gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html";>Licenses</a></li>
+ <li id="tabEducation"><a
href="https://gnu.org/education/education.html";>Education</a></li>
+ <li id="tabSoftware"><a
href="https://gnu.org/software/software.html";>Software</a></li>
+ <li id="tabDoc"><a href="https://gnu.org/doc/doc.html";>Documentation</a></li>
+ <li id="tabHelp"><a
href="https://gnu.org/help/help.html";>Help GNU</a></li>
+ </ul>
+
+</div><!-- /navigation -->
+<!-- end of server/body-include-2 -->
+
+<div id="content">
+<!-- end of server/banner.html -->
+
+<h2>Microsoft's Software is Malware</h2>
+
+<p><a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary.html";>Other examples of
proprietary
+malware</a></p>
+
+<div class="highlight-para">
+<p>
+<em>Malware</em> means software designed to function in ways that
+mistreat or harm the user. (This does not include accidental errors.)
+This page explains how Microsoft software is malware.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Malware and nonfree software are two different issues. The difference
+between <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>free software</a> and
+nonfree software is in
+<a href="https://gnu.org/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>
+</div>
+
+<div class="toc">
+<div class="malfunctions">
+<ul>
+<li><strong>Type of malware</strong></li>
+<li><a href="#microsoft-back-doors">Back doors</a></li>
+<!--<li><a href="#microsoft-censorship">Censorship</a></li>-->
+<!--<li><a href="#microsoft-insecurity">Insecurity</a></li>-->
+<li><a href="#microsoft-sabotage">Sabotage</a></li>
+<li><a href="#microsoft-surveillance">Surveillance</a></li>
+<li><a href="#microsoft-drm">Digital restrictions
+ management</a> or “DRM” means functionalities designed
+ to restrict what users can do with the data in their computers.</li>
+<li><a href="#microsoft-jails">Jails</a>—systems
+ that impose censorship on application programs.</li>
+<li><a href="#microsoft-tyrants">Tyrants</a>—systems
+ that reject any operating system not “authorized” by the
+ manufacturer.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="microsoft-back-doors">Microsoft Back Doors</h3>
+<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>
+
+ <p>More information on when <a
href="http://slated.org/windows_by_stealth_the_updates_you_dont_want";>
+ this was used</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>In Windows 10, the universal back door is no longer hidden; all
âupgradesâ will be
+ <a
href="http://www.appy-geek.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=1&articleid=42633691&source=googleplus";>forcibly
and immediately imposed</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2500036/desktop-apps/microsoft--we-can-remotely-delete-windows-8-apps.html";>
+ 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>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="microsoft-sabotage">Microsoft Sabotage</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><p><a
href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/06/how-can-any-company-ever-trust-microsoft-again/index.htm";>
+ Microsoft informs the NSA of bugs in Windows before fixing them.</a></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>
+
+ <p>Microsoft is going to
+ <a
href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3605515/more-than-half-of-all-ie-users-face-patch-axe-in-10-months/";>
+ cut off support for some Internet Explorer versions</a> in the same way.</p>
+
+ <p>I think a person or company has the right to cease to work on a
+ particular program; the wrong here is Microsoft does this after having
+ made the users dependent on Microsoft, so they are not free to ask
+ someone else to work on the program for them.</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="microsoft-surveillance">Microsoft Surveillance</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><p>
+ Microsoft uses Windows 10's "privacy policy" to overtly impose a
+ "right" to look at users' files at any time. Windows 10 full disk
+ encryption <a
href="https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-personal-data-abused/";>
+ gives Microsoft a key</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Thus, Windows is overt malware in regard to surveillance,
+ as in other issues.</p>
+
+ <p>We can suppose Microsoft look at users' files for the US government on
+ demand, though the "privacy policy" does not explicit say so. Will it
+ look at users' files for the Chinese government on demand?</p></li>
+
+ <li><p><a
href="http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/microsofts-windows-10-permission-watch-every-move.html";>
+ Windows 10 requires users to give permission for total snooping</a>,
+ including their files, their commands, their text input, and their
+ voice input.</p></li>
+
+ <li>Spyware in Windows: <a
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/28/windows_update_keeps_tabs/";>
+ Windows Update snoops on the user.</a>
+ <a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/look-the-black-underbelly-of-windows-81-blue-222175";>
+ Windows 8.1 snoops on local searches.</a> 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.</li>
+
+ <li><p>
+ <a
href="http://www.itproportal.com/2014/05/14/microsoft-openly-offered-cloud-data-fbi-and-nsa/";>
+ Microsoft SkyDrive allows the NSA to directly examine users' data.</a></p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="microsoft-drm">Microsoft DRM</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/08/aacs-tentacles/";>
+ DRM (digital restrictions mechanisms) in Windows</a>, introduced to
+ cater to <a
href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-drm.html#bluray";>Bluray</a> disks.
+ (The article also talks about how the same malware would later be introduced
+ in MacOS.)</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="microsoft-jails">Microsoft Jails</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><p><a
href="http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/301057/microsoft-metro-app-store-lockdown";>
+ Windows 8 on âmobile devicesâ is a jail</a>: it censors the
+ user's choice of application programs.</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="microsoft-tyrants">Microsoft Tyrants</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><p><a href="http://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/";>
+ Mobile devices that come with Windows 8 are tyrants</a>: they block
+ users from installing other or modified operating systems.</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 -->
+
+ <!-- begin server/footer-text.html -->
+<div id="fsf-links">
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://gnu.org/";>GNU home page</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.fsf.org/";>FSF home page</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://gnu.org/graphics/graphics.html";>GNU Art</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://gnu.org/fun/fun.html";>GNU Fun</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://gnu.org/people/people.html";>GNU's Who?</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/";>Free Software Directory</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://gnu.org/server/sitemap.html";>Site map</a></li>
+ </ul>
+</div><!-- /fsf-links -->
+
+<div id="mission-statement">
+
+<blockquote>
+<p><a href="http://www.fsf.org/";><img id="fsfbanner"
src="/fsf-logo-notext.png" alt=" [FSF logo] "></a><strong>âOur
+mission is to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study,
+copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the
+rights of Free Software users.â</strong></p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>The <a href="http://www.fsf.org/";>Free Software Foundation</a> is
+the principal organizational sponsor of the GNU Operating System.
+<strong>Support GNU and the FSF</strong> by <a
href="http://shop.fsf.org/";>buying manuals and gear</a>, <a
href="https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom?referrer=4052";>
+<strong>joining the FSF</strong></a> as an associate member, or making
+a <strong>donation</strong>, either <a href="http://donate.fsf.org/";>directly
to the FSF</a> or <a
href="http://flattr.com/thing/313733/gnuproject-on-Flattr";>via
+Flattr</a>.</p>
+
+<p id="backtotop"><a href="#header">back to top</a></p>
+
+</div><!-- /mission-statement -->
+<!-- end server/footer-text.html -->
+
+
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
+There are also <a href="https://gnu.org/contact/";>other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+ <address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
href="https://gnu.org/server/standards/README.translations.html";>Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
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+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
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+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!-- start of server/bottom-notes.html -->
+<div class="unprintable">
+<p><a href="http://www.fsf.org/about/dmca-notice";>Copyright Infringement
Notification</a></p>
+
+
+</div>
+<!-- end of server/bottom-notes.html -->
+
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2015/06/24 09:33:08 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+</body></html>
- www/server/staging/proprietary malware-microsof...,
Fabio Pesari <=