[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
www/proprietary malware-apple.de.html malware-a...
|
From: |
GNUN |
|
Subject: |
www/proprietary malware-apple.de.html malware-a... |
|
Date: |
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 01:59:42 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: GNUN <gnun> 17/09/29 01:59:41
Modified files:
proprietary : malware-apple.de.html malware-apple.it.html
proprietary-jails.de.html
proprietary-jails.it.html
proprietary/po : malware-apple.de-diff.html
malware-apple.it-diff.html
proprietary-jails.de-diff.html
Added files:
proprietary/po : proprietary-jails.it-diff.html
Log message:
Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-apple.de.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.22&r2=1.23
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-apple.it.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.25&r2=1.26
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-jails.de.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.14&r2=1.15
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-jails.it.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.11&r2=1.12
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/malware-apple.de-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/malware-apple.it-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.it-diff.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: malware-apple.de.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-apple.de.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -b -r1.22 -r1.23
--- malware-apple.de.html 20 Jul 2017 12:59:45 -0000 1.22
+++ malware-apple.de.html 29 Sep 2017 05:59:41 -0000 1.23
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/malware-apple.de.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/malware-apple.de.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/malware-apple.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" value="/proprietary/po/malware-apple.de-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2017-07-31" --><!--#set
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.de.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.83 -->
@@ -9,6 +14,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-apple.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.de.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" -->
<h2>Apples Betriebssysteme sind Schadsoftware</h2>
<p><a href="/proprietary/">Weitere Beispiele für proprietäre
Schadsoftware</a></p>
@@ -659,7 +665,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Letzte Ãnderung:
-$Date: 2017/07/20 12:59:45 $
+$Date: 2017/09/29 05:59:41 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
Index: malware-apple.it.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-apple.it.html,v
retrieving revision 1.25
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -b -r1.25 -r1.26
--- malware-apple.it.html 6 Jul 2017 20:59:54 -0000 1.25
+++ malware-apple.it.html 29 Sep 2017 05:59:41 -0000 1.26
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/malware-apple.it.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/malware-apple.it.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/malware-apple.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" value="/proprietary/po/malware-apple.it-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2017-07-31" --><!--#set
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.it.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.83 -->
@@ -9,6 +14,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-apple.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.it.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.it.html" -->
<h2>I sistemi operativi di Apple sono malware</h2>
<p><a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Altri esempi di malware
@@ -539,7 +545,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Ultimo aggiornamento:
-$Date: 2017/07/06 20:59:54 $
+$Date: 2017/09/29 05:59:41 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
Index: proprietary-jails.de.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-jails.de.html,v
retrieving revision 1.14
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -b -r1.14 -r1.15
--- proprietary-jails.de.html 8 May 2017 03:04:34 -0000 1.14
+++ proprietary-jails.de.html 29 Sep 2017 05:59:41 -0000 1.15
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE"
value="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2017-07-31" --><!--#set
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.en.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.de.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
@@ -8,6 +13,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.de.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" -->
<h2>Proprietäre Gefängnisse</h2>
<p><a href="/proprietary/">Weitere Beispiele proprietärer
Schadsoftware</a></p>
@@ -294,7 +300,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Letzte Ãnderung:
-$Date: 2017/05/08 03:04:34 $
+$Date: 2017/09/29 05:59:41 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
Index: proprietary-jails.it.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-jails.it.html,v
retrieving revision 1.11
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -b -r1.11 -r1.12
--- proprietary-jails.it.html 11 May 2017 21:29:25 -0000 1.11
+++ proprietary-jails.it.html 29 Sep 2017 05:59:41 -0000 1.12
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.it.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.it.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE"
value="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.it-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2017-07-31" --><!--#set
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.en.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.it.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
@@ -8,6 +13,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.it.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.it.html" -->
<h2>Prigioni proprietarie</h2>
<p><a href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">Altri esempi di malware
@@ -265,7 +271,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Ultimo aggiornamento:
-$Date: 2017/05/11 21:29:25 $
+$Date: 2017/09/29 05:59:41 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
Index: po/malware-apple.de-diff.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/po/malware-apple.de-diff.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -b -r1.3 -r1.4
--- po/malware-apple.de-diff.html 29 Sep 2016 22:58:34 -0000 1.3
+++ po/malware-apple.de-diff.html 29 Sep 2017 05:59:41 -0000 1.4
@@ -11,16 +11,10 @@
</style></head>
<body><pre>
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.83</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.84</em></ins></span> -->
<title>Apple's Operating Systems are Malware
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-apple.translist" -->
-<style type="text/css" media="print,screen">
-<!--
-#content div.toc li { list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; }
-#content div.toc { margin-top: 1em; }
--->
-</style>
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<h2>Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware</h2>
@@ -47,12 +41,9 @@
</p>
</div>
-<p>Here's how Apple's systems are malware.</p>
-
-<div class="toc">
-<div class="malfunctions">
+<div class="summary" style="margin-top: 2em">
+<h3>Type of malware</h3>
<ul>
-<li><strong>Type of malware</strong></li>
<li><a href="#back-doors">Back doors</a></li>
<li><a href="#censorship">Censorship</a></li>
<li><a href="#insecurity">Insecurity</a></li>
@@ -68,10 +59,9 @@
<li><a href="#tyrants">Tyrants</a>—systems
that reject any operating system not “authorized” by the
manufacturer.</li>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><li><a
href="#deception">Deception</a></li></em></ins></span>
+<li><a href="#deception">Deception</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
-</div>
<h3 id="back-doors">Apple Back Doors</h3>
<ul>
@@ -98,6 +88,42 @@
<h3 id="censorship">Apple Censorship</h3>
<ul>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><li>
+<p>Apple <a
+href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html">
+deleted several VPNs from its app store for China</a>,
+thus using its own censorship power to strengthen that of the Chinese
+government.
+</p>
+
+<p>If Apple had not designed the iMonsters to let Apple censor
+applications,
+<a href="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html">
+Apple would not have had the power to stop users from installing
+VPNs</a>.</p>
+</li></em></ins></span>
+
+<li><p>
+Apple used its censorship system to enforce Russian
+surveillance <a
+href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/technology/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0">
+by blocking distribution of the LinkedIn app in Russia</a>.</p>
+
+<p>This is ironic because LinkedIn is a surveillance system
+itself. While subjecting its users to its own surveillance, it tries
+to protect its users from Russian surveillance, and is therefore
+subject to Russian censorship.</p>
+
+<p>However, the point here is the wrong of Apple's censorship of
+apps.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li><p>
+Apple used its censorship system to enforce
+China's censorship <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/apple-removes-new-york-times-app-in-china">by
+blocking distribution of the New York Times app</a>.</p></li>
+
<li><p>
Apple censors
games, <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game">banning
@@ -133,16 +159,21 @@
<h3 id="insecurity">Apple Insecurity</h3>
+<p>These bugs are/were not intentional, so unlike the rest of the file
+ they do not count as malware. We mention them to refute the
+ supposition that prestigious proprietary software doesn't have grave
+ bugs.</p>
+
<ul>
<li>
- <p>A <span class="inserted"><ins><em>vulnerability in Apple's Image
I/O API allowed an attacker
+ <p>A vulnerability in Apple's Image I/O API allowed an attacker
to <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/22/stagefright-flaw-ios-iphone-imessage-apple">execute
malacious code from any application which uses this API to render
a certain kind of image file</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>A</em></ins></span> bug in the iThings Messages
+ <p>A bug in the iThings Messages
app <a
href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/12/apple-bug-exposed-chat-history-with-a-single-click/">allowed
a malicious web site to extract all the user's messaging
history</a>.
</p>
@@ -181,6 +212,27 @@
<ul>
<li>
+ <p>Apple will stop <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/iphone-ipad-apps-games-apple-5-5c-obsolete">fixing
bugs for older
+ model iThings</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Meanwhile, Apple stops people from fixing problems themselves;
+ that's the nature of proprietary software.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The iPhone 7 contains DRM specifically designed to <a
+
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/iphone-7-home-button-unreplaceable-repair-software-lock">
+ brick it if an “unauthorized” repair shop fixes it</a>.
+ “Unauthorized” essentially means anyone besides Apple.</p>
+
+ <p>The article uses the term “lock” to describe the DRM,
+ but we prefer to use the term <a
+ href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalLocks">
+ digital handcuffs</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+
+ <li>
<p>The Apple Music client
program <a
href="https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/">scans
the user's file system for music files, copies them to an Apple
@@ -219,11 +271,21 @@
<h3 id="surveillance">Apple Surveillance</h3>
<ul>
+ <li><p>Apple proposes
+ <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/15/apple-removing-iphone-home-button-fingerprint-scanning-screen">a
fingerprint-scanning touch screen</a>
+ — which would mean no way to use it without having your
fingerprints
+ taken. Users would have no way to tell whether the phone is snooping on
+ them.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>iPhones <a
href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/17/iphones-secretly-send-call-history-to-apple-security-firm-says">send
+ lots of personal data to Apple's servers</a>. Big Brother can
+ get them from there.</p>
+ </li>
- <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li><p>The iMessage app on
iThings <a
href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/28/apple-logs-your-imessage-contacts-and-may-share-them-with-police/">tells
+ <li><p>The iMessage app on iThings <a
href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/28/apple-logs-your-imessage-contacts-and-may-share-them-with-police/">tells
a server every phone number that the user types into it</a>; the
server records these numbers for at least 30
days.</p>
- </li></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
<li><p>Users cannot make an Apple ID (<a
href="http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/49951/how-can-i-download-free-apps-without-registering-an-apple-idcool">necessary
to install even gratis apps</a>) without giving a valid email address
and receiving the verification code Apple
sends to it.</p>
@@ -298,7 +360,7 @@
Technical presentation</a>.</p>
</li>
- <li><p>The <a
+ <li><p>The <a class="not-a-duplicate"
href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/privacy-advocates-worry-over-new-apple-iphone-tracking-feature-161836223.html">
iBeacon</a> lets stores determine exactly where the iThing is, and
get other info too.</p>
@@ -385,7 +447,7 @@
</li>
</ul>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><h3 id="deception">Apple
Deception</h3>
+<h3 id="deception">Apple Deception</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>“Dark patterns”
are <a
href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-inside-the-interfaces-designed-to-trick-you">user
@@ -396,7 +458,7 @@
users to turn this off” while ensuring that few will
understand how to actually turn it off.</p>
</li>
-</ul></em></ins></span>
+</ul>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -445,7 +507,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2015, 2016, 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
@@ -455,7 +517,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/09/29 22:58:34 $
+$Date: 2017/09/29 05:59:41 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
Index: po/malware-apple.it-diff.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/po/malware-apple.it-diff.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -b -r1.2 -r1.3
--- po/malware-apple.it-diff.html 26 Mar 2017 19:00:34 -0000 1.2
+++ po/malware-apple.it-diff.html 29 Sep 2017 05:59:41 -0000 1.3
@@ -11,16 +11,10 @@
</style></head>
<body><pre>
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.79</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.83</em></ins></span> -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.83</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.84</em></ins></span> -->
<title>Apple's Operating Systems are Malware
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-apple.translist" -->
-<span class="removed"><del><strong><style type="text/css"
media="print,screen">
-<!--
-#content div.toc li { list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; }
-#content div.toc { margin-top: 1em; }
--->
-</style></strong></del></span>
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<h2>Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware</h2>
@@ -47,14 +41,9 @@
</p>
</div>
-<span class="removed"><del><strong><p>Here's how Apple's systems are
malware.</p>
-
-<div class="toc"></strong></del></span>
-
-<div <span
class="removed"><del><strong>class="malfunctions"></strong></del></span>
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>class="summary" style="margin-top: 2em">
-<h3>Type of malware</h3></em></ins></span>
+<div class="summary" style="margin-top: 2em">
+<h3>Type of malware</h3>
<ul>
-<span class="removed"><del><strong><li><strong>Type of
malware</strong></li></strong></del></span>
<li><a href="#back-doors">Back doors</a></li>
<li><a href="#censorship">Censorship</a></li>
<li><a href="#insecurity">Insecurity</a></li>
@@ -73,7 +62,6 @@
<li><a href="#deception">Deception</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
-<span class="removed"><del><strong></div></strong></del></span>
<h3 id="back-doors">Apple Back Doors</h3>
<ul>
@@ -101,8 +89,23 @@
<h3 id="censorship">Apple Censorship</h3>
<ul>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><li>
+<p>Apple <a
+href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html">
+deleted several VPNs from its app store for China</a>,
+thus using its own censorship power to strengthen that of the Chinese
+government.
+</p>
+
+<p>If Apple had not designed the iMonsters to let Apple censor
+applications,
+<a href="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html">
+Apple would not have had the power to stop users from installing
+VPNs</a>.</p>
+</li></em></ins></span>
+
<li><p>
-Apple <span class="inserted"><ins><em>used its censorship system to enforce
Russian
+Apple used its censorship system to enforce Russian
surveillance <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/technology/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0">
by blocking distribution of the LinkedIn app in Russia</a>.</p>
@@ -122,7 +125,7 @@
blocking distribution of the New York Times app</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>
-Apple</em></ins></span> censors
+Apple censors
games, <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game">banning
some games from the cr…app store</a> because of which political
points they suggest. Some political points are apparently considered
@@ -156,6 +159,11 @@
<h3 id="insecurity">Apple Insecurity</h3>
+<p>These bugs are/were not intentional, so unlike the rest of the file
+ they do not count as malware. We mention them to refute the
+ supposition that prestigious proprietary software doesn't have grave
+ bugs.</p>
+
<ul>
<li>
<p>A vulnerability in Apple's Image I/O API allowed an attacker
@@ -204,6 +212,27 @@
<ul>
<li>
+ <p>Apple will stop <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/iphone-ipad-apps-games-apple-5-5c-obsolete">fixing
bugs for older
+ model iThings</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Meanwhile, Apple stops people from fixing problems themselves;
+ that's the nature of proprietary software.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The iPhone 7 contains DRM specifically designed to <a
+
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/iphone-7-home-button-unreplaceable-repair-software-lock">
+ brick it if an “unauthorized” repair shop fixes it</a>.
+ “Unauthorized” essentially means anyone besides Apple.</p>
+
+ <p>The article uses the term “lock” to describe the DRM,
+ but we prefer to use the term <a
+ href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalLocks">
+ digital handcuffs</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+
+ <li>
<p>The Apple Music client
program <a
href="https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/">scans
the user's file system for music files, copies them to an Apple
@@ -242,11 +271,11 @@
<h3 id="surveillance">Apple Surveillance</h3>
<ul>
- <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li><p>Apple proposes
+ <li><p>Apple proposes
<a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/15/apple-removing-iphone-home-button-fingerprint-scanning-screen">a
fingerprint-scanning touch screen</a>
— which would mean no way to use it without having your
fingerprints
taken. Users would have no way to tell whether the phone is snooping on
- them.</p></li></em></ins></span>
+ them.</p></li>
<li><p>iPhones <a
href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/17/iphones-secretly-send-call-history-to-apple-security-firm-says">send
lots of personal data to Apple's servers</a>. Big Brother can
@@ -331,7 +360,7 @@
Technical presentation</a>.</p>
</li>
- <li><p>The <a <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>class="not-a-duplicate"</em></ins></span>
+ <li><p>The <a class="not-a-duplicate"
href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/privacy-advocates-worry-over-new-apple-iphone-tracking-feature-161836223.html">
iBeacon</a> lets stores determine exactly where the iThing is, and
get other info too.</p>
@@ -478,7 +507,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2015, <span
class="removed"><del><strong>2016</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>2016, 2017</em></ins></span> Free Software
Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2015, 2016, 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
@@ -488,7 +517,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/03/26 19:00:34 $
+$Date: 2017/09/29 05:59:41 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
Index: po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -b -r1.7 -r1.8
--- po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html 6 May 2017 15:00:10 -0000 1.7
+++ po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html 29 Sep 2017 05:59:41 -0000 1.8
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@
</style></head>
<body><pre>
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.79</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.84</em></ins></span> -->
<title>Proprietary Jails - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<h2>Proprietary Jails</h2>
-<p><a href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">Other examples of
proprietary malware</a></p>
+<p><a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">Other</strong></del></span>
<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other</em></ins></span>
examples of proprietary malware</a></p>
<p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to
mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers,
@@ -40,15 +40,27 @@
<ul>
- <li>
-<span class="removed"><del><strong><p>Apple has banned iThing
applications that show the confederate flag.</strong></del></span>
- <span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Windows 10 S ought to be
called Windows 10 J, for “Jail”:</em></ins></span>
- <a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/apple-confederate-flag_n_7663754.html">
-Not only those that use it</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-10-s-microsoft-faster-pc-comparison">only
programs from the Windows Store can be
+<li>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Apple <a
+href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html">
+deleted several VPNs from its app store for China</a>,
+thus using its own censorship power to strengthen that of the Chinese
+government.
+</p>
+
+<p>If Apple had not designed the iMonsters to let Apple censor
+applications,
+<a href="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html">
+Apple would not have had the power to stop users from installing
+VPNs</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+ <li></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Windows 10 S ought to be called Windows 10 J, for
“Jail”:
+ <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-10-s-microsoft-faster-pc-comparison">only
programs from the Windows Store can be
downloaded and executed</a>.</p>
- <p>If the history of iOS</em></ins></span> as a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>symbol of racism</a>, but even strategic
-games that use it</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>jail
is any indication, Windows 10 J
+ <p>If the history of iOS as a jail is any indication, Windows 10 J
will be no better.</p>
</li>
@@ -57,63 +69,54 @@
</li>
<li><p>
-Apple used its censorship system</em></ins></span> to <span
class="removed"><del><strong>represent confederate army units fighting
in</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>enforce Russian
+Apple used its censorship system to enforce Russian
surveillance <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/technology/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0">
-by blocking distribution of</em></ins></span> the
-<span class="removed"><del><strong>Civil War.</p></strong></del></span>
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>LinkedIn app in
Russia</a>.</p></em></ins></span>
+by blocking distribution of the LinkedIn app in Russia</a>.</p>
-<p>This <span class="removed"><del><strong>ludicrous rigidity
illustrates</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>is ironic
because LinkedIn is a surveillance system
+<p>This is ironic because LinkedIn is a surveillance system
itself. While subjecting its users to its own surveillance, it tries
to protect its users from Russian surveillance, and is therefore
subject to Russian censorship.</p>
-<p>However,</em></ins></span> the point <span
class="removed"><del><strong>that</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>here is the wrong of Apple's censorship of
+<p>However, the point here is the wrong of Apple's censorship of
apps.</p>
</li>
- <li><p></em></ins></span>
-Apple <span class="removed"><del><strong>should not be
-allowed</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>used its
censorship system</em></ins></span> to <span
class="removed"><del><strong>censor apps. Even if Apple carried out this act
of</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>enforce
-China's</em></ins></span> censorship <span
class="removed"><del><strong>with</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/apple-removes-new-york-times-app-in-china">by
+ <li><p>
+Apple used its censorship system to enforce
+China's censorship <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/apple-removes-new-york-times-app-in-china">by
blocking distribution of the New York Times app</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>
Apple censors
-games, <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game">banning</em></ins></span>
-some <span class="removed"><del><strong>care, it would still be wrong.
Whether racism is
-bad, whether educating people about drone attacks is bad, are
not</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>games
from</em></ins></span> the
-<span class="removed"><del><strong>real issue.</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>cr…app store</a> because of which
political
+games, <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game">banning
+some games from the cr…app store</a> because of which political
points they suggest. Some political points are apparently considered
acceptable.</p>
</li>
-<li><p></em></ins></span>
-Apple <span class="removed"><del><strong>should not have</strong></del></span>
<span class="inserted"><ins><em><a
href="http://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/">
-banned a program from</em></ins></span> the <span
class="removed"><del><strong>power to impose</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>App Store</a> because</em></ins></span> its
<span class="removed"><del><strong>views</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>developers
+<li><p>
+Apple <a href="http://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/">
+banned a program from the App Store</a> because its developers
committed the enormity of disassembling some iThings.
</p></li>
<li><p>
Apple rejected an app that displayed the locations of US drone
assassinations, giving various excuses. Each time the developers
-fixed one “problem”, Apple complained</em></ins></span> about
-<span class="removed"><del><strong>either</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>another.
+fixed one “problem”, Apple complained about another.
After the fifth rejection,
Apple <a
href="http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app-tracks-drone-strikes/">admitted
it was censoring the app based on the subject matter</a>.
</p></li>
<li><p>
-As</em></ins></span> of <span class="removed"><del><strong>these
questions,</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>2015, Apple
<a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/apple-anti-choice-tendencies-showing-in-app-store-reproductive-rights">systematically
bans apps that endorse abortion
-rights</em></ins></span> or <span class="removed"><del><strong>any
other.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li></strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>would help
women find abortions</a>.</p></em></ins></span>
+As of 2015, Apple <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/apple-anti-choice-tendencies-showing-in-app-store-reproductive-rights">systematically
bans apps that endorse abortion
+rights or would help women find abortions</a>.</p>
<p>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em>This particular political
slant</em></ins></span> <a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans">More
- examples</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/siri-abortion-apple-unintenional-omissions">
+This particular political slant <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/siri-abortion-apple-unintenional-omissions">
affects other Apple services</a>.
</p></li>
@@ -128,10 +131,9 @@
Play) that Google used to deny access to install it. Using a nonfree program
gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that power.</p>
-<p>Google's censorship, unlike that</em></ins></span> of <span
class="removed"><del><strong>Apple's arbitrary</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>Apple</em></ins></span> and <span
class="removed"><del><strong>inconsistent censorship</a>.
- </p></strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>Microsoft,
is not total:
+<p>Google's censorship, unlike that of Apple and Microsoft, is not total:
Android allows users to install apps in other ways. You can install
-free programs from f-droid.org.</p></em></ins></span>
+free programs from f-droid.org.</p>
</li>
<li>
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@
</li>
<li>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Apple has banned iThing applications
that show the confederate flag.
+<p>Apple has banned iThing applications that show the confederate flag.
<a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/apple-confederate-flag_n_7663754.html">
Not only those that use it as a symbol of racism</a>, but even strategic
games that use it to represent confederate army units fighting in the
@@ -185,7 +187,7 @@
</p>
</li>
-<li></em></ins></span>
+<li>
<p><a
href="http://www.itworld.com/article/2832657/operating-systems/microsoft-metro-app-store-lock-down.html">Windows
8 on “mobile devices” is a jail.</a></p>
</li>
@@ -247,7 +249,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, <span
class="removed"><del><strong>2016</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>2016, 2017</em></ins></span> Free Software
Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 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
@@ -257,7 +259,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/05/06 15:00:10 $
+$Date: 2017/09/29 05:59:41 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
Index: po/proprietary-jails.it-diff.html
===================================================================
RCS file: po/proprietary-jails.it-diff.html
diff -N po/proprietary-jails.it-diff.html
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ po/proprietary-jails.it-diff.html 29 Sep 2017 05:59:41 -0000 1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,269 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
+<!-- Generated by GNUN -->
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<title>/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html-diff</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+span.removed { background-color: #f22; color: #000; }
+span.inserted { background-color: #2f2; color: #000; }
+</style></head>
+<body><pre>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.79</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.84</em></ins></span> -->
+<title>Proprietary Jails - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation</title>
+ <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Proprietary Jails</h2>
+
+<p><a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">Other</strong></del></span>
<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other</em></ins></span>
examples of proprietary malware</a></p>
+
+<p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to
+mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers,
+which puts them in a position of power over the users; <a
+href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">that is the
+basic injustice</a>. The developers often exercise that power to the
+detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p>
+
+<p>Here are examples of proprietary systems that are
+<em>jails</em>: they do not allow the user to freely install
+applications. The <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ZRViDum.jpg">image of
+the iPrison</a> illustrates this issue.</p>
+<!-- embed http://i.imgur.com/ZRViDum.jpg here -->
+<!-- Linking to it. Not possible to embed due to licensing. See RT #887471
-->
+
+<p>These systems are platforms for censorship imposed by the company
+that owns the system. Selling products designed as platforms for a
+company to impose censorship ought to be forbidden by law, but it
+isn't.</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Apple <a
+href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html">
+deleted several VPNs from its app store for China</a>,
+thus using its own censorship power to strengthen that of the Chinese
+government.
+</p>
+
+<p>If Apple had not designed the iMonsters to let Apple censor
+applications,
+<a href="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html">
+Apple would not have had the power to stop users from installing
+VPNs</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+ <li></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Windows 10 S ought to be called Windows 10 J, for
“Jail”:
+ <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-10-s-microsoft-faster-pc-comparison">only
programs from the Windows Store can be
+ downloaded and executed</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>If the history of iOS as a jail is any indication, Windows 10 J
+ will be no better.</p>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>Google Chrome, running on Windows, <a
href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/06/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth/">is
a jail</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+<li><p>
+Apple used its censorship system to enforce Russian
+surveillance <a
+href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/technology/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0">
+by blocking distribution of the LinkedIn app in Russia</a>.</p>
+
+<p>This is ironic because LinkedIn is a surveillance system
+itself. While subjecting its users to its own surveillance, it tries
+to protect its users from Russian surveillance, and is therefore
+subject to Russian censorship.</p>
+
+<p>However, the point here is the wrong of Apple's censorship of
+apps.</p>
+</li>
+
+ <li><p>
+Apple used its censorship system to enforce
+China's censorship <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/apple-removes-new-york-times-app-in-china">by
+blocking distribution of the New York Times app</a>.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>
+Apple censors
+games, <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game">banning
+some games from the cr…app store</a> because of which political
+points they suggest. Some political points are apparently considered
+acceptable.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li><p>
+Apple <a href="http://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/">
+banned a program from the App Store</a> because its developers
+committed the enormity of disassembling some iThings.
+</p></li>
+
+<li><p>
+Apple rejected an app that displayed the locations of US drone
+assassinations, giving various excuses. Each time the developers
+fixed one “problem”, Apple complained about another.
+After the fifth rejection,
+Apple <a
href="http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app-tracks-drone-strikes/">admitted
+it was censoring the app based on the subject matter</a>.
+</p></li>
+
+<li><p>
+As of 2015, Apple <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/apple-anti-choice-tendencies-showing-in-app-store-reproductive-rights">systematically
bans apps that endorse abortion
+rights or would help women find abortions</a>.</p>
+
+<p>
+This particular political slant <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/siri-abortion-apple-unintenional-omissions">
+affects other Apple services</a>.
+</p></li>
+
+<li><p>
+<a
+href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/03/google-pulls-ad-blocking-app-for-samsung-phones">Google
+censored installation of Samsung's ad-blocker,</a> saying that
+blocking ads is “interference” with the sites that
+advertise (and surveil users through ads).</p>
+
+<p>The ad-blocker is proprietary software, just like the program (Google
+Play) that Google used to deny access to install it. Using a nonfree program
+gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that power.</p>
+
+<p>Google's censorship, unlike that of Apple and Microsoft, is not total:
+Android allows users to install apps in other ways. You can install
+free programs from f-droid.org.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><a
href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-yo.html">
+iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is the prototype of a
+jail.</a> It was Apple that introduced the practice of designing
+general purposes computers with censorship of application
+programs.</p>
+
+<p>Apple used this censorship power in 2014
+to <a
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html">
+ban all bitcoin apps</a> for the iThings for a time. It
+also <a
href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/apple-removes-game-about-growing-marijuana-from-app-store/1100-6419864/">banned
+a game about growing marijuana</a>, while permitting games about other
+crimes such as killing people. Perhaps Apple considers killing more
+acceptable than marijuana.</p>
+
+<p>Here is an article about
+the <a
href="http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2008/03/07/code-signing-and-you/">code
+signing</a> that the iThings use to lock up the user.</p>
+
+<p>Curiously, Apple is beginning to allow limited passage through the
+walls of the the iThing jail: users can now install apps built from
+source code, provided the source code is written in Swift. Users
+cannot do this freely because they are required to identify themselves.
+<a href="https://developer.apple.com/xcode/">Here are
details.</a></p>
+
+<p>While this is a crack in the prison walls, it is not big enough to
+mean that the iThings are no longer jails.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Apple has banned iThing applications that show the confederate flag.
+<a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/apple-confederate-flag_n_7663754.html">
+Not only those that use it as a symbol of racism</a>, but even strategic
+games that use it to represent confederate army units fighting in the
+Civil War.</p>
+
+<p>This ludicrous rigidity illustrates the point that Apple should not be
+allowed to censor apps. Even if Apple carried out this act of
+censorship with some care, it would still be wrong. Whether racism is
+bad, whether educating people about drone attacks is bad, are not the
+real issue. Apple should not have the power to impose its views about
+either of these questions, or any other.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+ <p>
+ <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans">More
+ examples of Apple's arbitrary and inconsistent censorship</a>.
+ </p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><a
+href="http://www.itworld.com/article/2832657/operating-systems/microsoft-metro-app-store-lock-down.html">Windows
8 on “mobile devices” is a jail.</a></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Game consoles are jails, too: no game can run on the console unless
+the console's manufacturer has authorized it. Alas, I can't find a
+article to cite as a reference for this fact. Please inform us if you
+know of one.
+</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 & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></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"><address@hidden></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
+ to <a href="mailto:address@hidden">
+ <address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+ <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.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 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: 2017/09/29 05:59:41 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
+</pre></body></html>
| [Prev in Thread] |
Current Thread |
[Next in Thread] |
- www/proprietary malware-apple.de.html malware-a...,
GNUN <=