www/proprietary proprietary-back-doors.html

[Félicien PILLOT]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Félicien PILLOT <felandral>     17/02/12 08:12:01

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

Log message:
        [#1193185] Add Amazon Echo back door.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.41&r2=1.42

Patches:
Index: proprietary-back-doors.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html,v
retrieving revision 1.41
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -b -r1.41 -r1.42
--- proprietary-back-doors.html 1 Feb 2017 01:24:35 -0000       1.41
+++ proprietary-back-doors.html 12 Feb 2017 13:12:01 -0000      1.42
@@ -18,12 +18,18 @@
 
 <!-- WEBMASTERS: make sure to place new items on top under each subsection -->
 <ul>
+    <li><p>The Amazon Echo appears to have a universal back door, since
+      <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo#Software_updates";>it 
installs "updates" automatically</a>.</p>
+    <p>We have found nothing explicitly documenting the lack of any way to
+      disable remote changes to the software, so we are not completely sure
+      there isn't one, but it seems pretty clear.</p>
+  </li>
+
     <li><p>Chrome has a back door <a 
href="https://consumerist.com/2017/01/18/why-is-google-blocking-this-ad-blocker-on-chrome/";>for
     remote erasure of add-ons</a>.</p>
     </li>
 
     <li>
-
         <p>WhatsApp <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages";>has
             a back door that the company can use to read the plaintext
             of messages</a>.</p>
@@ -370,7 +376,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/02/01 01:24:35 $
+$Date: 2017/02/12 13:12:01 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>