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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&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>
-</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&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 “jailbreaking.”</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&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>
- <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…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 “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>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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