www/proprietary malware-mobiles.html proprietar...

[Pavel Kharitonov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev>       15/11/24 14:43:38

Modified files:
        proprietary    : malware-mobiles.html 
                         proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        <mobile surveillance>: New entry RT #1063468.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.6&r2=1.7
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.24&r2=1.25

Patches:
Index: malware-mobiles.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -b -r1.6 -r1.7
--- malware-mobiles.html        29 Jun 2015 08:08:35 -0000      1.6
+++ malware-mobiles.html        24 Nov 2015 14:43:37 -0000      1.7
@@ -119,6 +119,20 @@
 
 <h3 id="surveillance">Mobile Surveillance</h3>
 <ul>
+  <li><p>&ldquo;Cryptic communication,&rdquo; unrelated to the app's 
functionality,
+  was <a 
href="http://news.mit.edu/2015/data-transferred-android-apps-hiding-1119";>
+  found in the 500 most popular gratis Android apps</a>.</p>
+
+  <p>The article should not have described these apps as
+  &ldquo;free&rdquo;&mdash;they are not free software.  The clear way to say
+  &ldquo;zero price&rdquo; is &ldquo;gratis.&rdquo;</p>
+
+  <p>The article takes for granted that the usual analytics tools are
+  legitimate, but is that valid?  Software developers have no right to
+  analyze what users are doing or how.  &ldquo;Analytics&rdquo; tools that 
snoop are
+  just as wrong as any other snooping.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li><p>Many proprietary apps for mobile devices report which other
   apps the user has
   installed.  <a 
href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/26/twitter-app-graph/";>Twitter
@@ -240,7 +254,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/06/29 08:08:35 $
+$Date: 2015/11/24 14:43:37 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -b -r1.24 -r1.25
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       17 Nov 2015 13:45:16 -0000      1.24
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       24 Nov 2015 14:43:37 -0000      1.25
@@ -216,6 +216,19 @@
 </div>
 
 <ul>
+  <li><p>&ldquo;Cryptic communication,&rdquo; unrelated to the app's 
functionality,
+  was <a 
href="http://news.mit.edu/2015/data-transferred-android-apps-hiding-1119";>
+  found in the 500 most popular gratis Android apps</a>.</p>
+
+  <p>The article should not have described these apps as
+  &ldquo;free&rdquo;&mdash;they are not free software.  The clear way to say
+  &ldquo;zero price&rdquo; is &ldquo;gratis.&rdquo;</p>
+
+  <p>The article takes for granted that the usual analytics tools are
+  legitimate, but is that valid?  Software developers have no right to
+  analyze what users are doing or how.  &ldquo;Analytics&rdquo; tools that 
snoop are
+  just as wrong as any other snooping.</p>
+  </li>
   <li><p>Gratis Android apps (but not <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free 
software</a>)
       connect to 100
       <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/06/free-android-apps-connect-tracking-advertising-websites";>tracking
 and advertising</a> URLs,
@@ -781,7 +794,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/11/17 13:45:16 $
+$Date: 2015/11/24 14:43:37 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>