www/proprietary proprietary-back-doors.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       16/12/31 11:01:08

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-back-doors.html 

Log message:
        Explain more about Amazon's book-deletion.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.32&r2=1.33

Patches:
Index: proprietary-back-doors.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html,v
retrieving revision 1.32
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -b -r1.32 -r1.33
--- proprietary-back-doors.html 21 Oct 2016 22:55:58 -0000      1.32
+++ proprietary-back-doors.html 31 Dec 2016 11:01:07 -0000      1.33
@@ -231,12 +231,20 @@
 </li>
 
 <li>
-<p>The Amazon Kindle has a back door that has been used to
+<p>The Amazon Kindle-Swindle has a back door that has been used to
 <a 
href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/";>
-remotely erase books</a>.
+remotely erase books</a>.  One of the books erased was 1984, by George Orwell.
 </p>
 
-<p>The Kindle also has a
+<p>Amazon responded to criticism by saying it would delete books only
+following orders from the state.  However, that policy didn't last.
+In 2012
+it <a 
href="http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/kindle-user-claims-amazon-dele.html";>wiped
+a user's Kindle-Swindle and deleted her account</a>, then offered her
+kafkaesque "explanations".</p>
+
+
+<p>The Kindle-Swindle also has a
 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200774090";>
 universal back door</a>.
 </p>
@@ -344,7 +352,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/10/21 22:55:58 $
+$Date: 2016/12/31 11:01:07 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>