www/proprietary malware-google.html

[Félicien PILLOT]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Félicien PILLOT <felandral>     17/08/01 05:58:08

Modified files:
        proprietary    : malware-google.html 

Log message:
        [#1099084] Copy item from proprietary-sabotage.html

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-google.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.22&r2=1.23

Patches:
Index: malware-google.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-google.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -b -r1.22 -r1.23
--- malware-google.html 23 May 2017 17:27:41 -0000      1.22
+++ malware-google.html 1 Aug 2017 09:58:07 -0000       1.23
@@ -129,6 +129,19 @@
 actions that harm to the users of specific Google software.</p>
 
 <ul>
+  <li>
+    <p>Revolv is an IoT device which managed &ldquo;smart home&rdquo;
+      operations: switching the lights, operate motion sensors, regulating
+      temperature, etc. On May 15th, 2016, Google said it would shut down the
+      service linked to the device, making it unusable.</p>
+    <p>Although you may own the device, its functioning depended on the server
+      that never belonged to you. So you never really had control of it. This
+      unjust design is called
+      <a href="/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html">
+      Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)</a>. That is what gave the
+      company the power to convert it into a $300 out-of-warranty brick, for
+      your &ldquo;dumb home&rdquo;.</p>
+  </li>
   <li><p>Google has long had <a
       
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/24/google-can-unlock-android-devices-remotely-if-phone-unencrypted";>a
       back door to remotely unlock an Android device</a>, unless its
@@ -278,7 +291,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/05/23 17:27:41 $
+$Date: 2017/08/01 09:58:07 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>