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From: Therese Godefroy
Subject: www/proprietary malware-apple.html
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 11:02:41 -0400 (EDT)

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/05/03 11:02:41

Modified files:
        proprietary    : malware-apple.html 

Log message:
        Synchronize Censorship and Jails sections with proprietary-*;
        fix a typo.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-apple.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.66&r2=1.67

Patches:
Index: malware-apple.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-apple.html,v
retrieving revision 1.66
retrieving revision 1.67
diff -u -b -r1.66 -r1.67
--- malware-apple.html  15 Mar 2018 20:56:27 -0000      1.66
+++ malware-apple.html  3 May 2018 15:02:40 -0000       1.67
@@ -76,68 +76,10 @@
 </ul>
 
 <h3 id="censorship">Apple Censorship</h3>
-<ul>
-
-<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>
-</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&amp;emc=rss&amp;_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&hellip;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 &ldquo;problem&rdquo;, 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>
-</ul>
+<p>Apple mainly uses iOS, which is a typical jail, to impose censorship
+through the Apple Store. Please refer to <a href="#apple">Apple Jails</a>
+section for more information.</p>
 
 <h3 id="insecurity">Apple Insecurity</h3>
 
@@ -150,7 +92,7 @@
   <li>
     <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
+    malicious code from any application which uses this API to render
     a certain kind of image file</a>.</p>
   </li>
 
@@ -436,33 +378,123 @@
 </ul>
 
 <h3 id="jails">Apple Jails</h3>
+
+<p><a 
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IOS_jailbreaking&amp;oldid=835861046";>
+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>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 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>. While this is a crack in the prison walls, it is not
+big enough to mean that the iThings are no longer jails.</p>
+
+<h4>Examples of censorship by Apple jails</h4>
 <ul>
-  <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 a jail for
-  users.</a>  That means it imposes censorship of application programs.</p>
-
-  <p>Apple has used this power to
-  <a 
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html";>
-  censor all bitcoin apps</a> for the iThings.</p>
-
-  <p>Apple, in the iThings, pioneered the practice of general purpose
-  computers that are jails, and the term comes from iThing users, who
-  referred to escaping from the censorship as &ldquo;jailbreaking.&rdquo;</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 jail the user.</p>
-
-  <p>Curiously, Apple is beginning to allow limited passage through the
-  walls of 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>
+  <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>
+  </li>
+
+  <li>
+    <p>Apple is <a
+      
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/iranian-hardliners-want-isolated-internet";>
+      censoring apps for the US government too</a>. Specifically, it
+      is deleting apps developed by Iranians.</p>
+    <p>The root of these wrongs are in Apple. If Apple had not designed
+      the iMonsters to let Apple censor applications, Apple would not have
+      had the power to stop users from installing whatever kind of apps.</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&amp;emc=rss&amp;_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>
 
-  <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 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&hellip;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>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/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans";>
+  <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>Apple rejected an app that displayed the locations of US drone
+      assassinations, giving various excuses. Each time the developers
+      fixed one &ldquo;problem&rdquo;, 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>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>
+  </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>
 </ul>
@@ -553,7 +585,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/03/15 20:56:27 $
+$Date: 2018/05/03 15:02:40 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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