www/proprietary malware-phones.html

[Félicien PILLOT]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Félicien PILLOT <felandral>     17/07/27 06:19:45

Added files:
        proprietary    : malware-phones.html 

Log message:
        [#1227362] Add a new page speaking about malware in phones.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-phones.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

Patches:
Index: malware-phones.html
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RCS file: malware-phones.html
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.0 -->
+
+<title>Malware in Phones
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Malware in Phones</h2>
+
+<p><a href="/proprietary/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.)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Malware and nonfree software are two different issues.  The difference
+between <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a> and
+nonfree software is in <a
+href="/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>
+
+<p>Mobile phones are oppressive for two reasons: tracking and listening.
+This is why we call them &ldqup;Stalin's dream.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Here are examples of malware in phones.</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li><p>The phone network
+    <a href="https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/problem-mobile-phones";>
+      tracks the movements of each phone</a>.</p>
+    <p>This is inherent in the design of the phone network. As long as the
+      phone is in communication with the network, there is no way to stop the
+      system from recording where it is.</p>
+  </li>
+  <li><p>Every phone's communication processor has a universal back door which
+      is <a 
href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/remotely_eavesd_1.html";>
+       is used to make he phone transmit what it hears through the
+       microphones</a>.</p>
+    <p>More about
+      <a 
href="http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone";>
+       the nature of this problem</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF.  Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</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
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+
+        <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="/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.
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+     
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+     Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2017 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>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2017/07/27 10:19:45 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>