www/server/staging/proprietary malware-microsof...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/09/26 15:13:02

Modified files:
        server/staging/proprietary: malware-microsoft.html 

Log message:
        New version of the windows 10 story.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.5&r2=1.6

Patches:
Index: malware-microsoft.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/server/staging/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -b -r1.5 -r1.6
--- malware-microsoft.html      24 Sep 2018 21:26:47 -0000      1.5
+++ malware-microsoft.html      26 Sep 2018 19:13:01 -0000      1.6
@@ -72,22 +72,22 @@
     any change whatsoever can be imposed on the users</a>.</p>
 
     <p>This was <a
-    
href="http://slated.org/windows_by_stealth_the_updates_you_dont_want";>reported
-    in 2007</a> for XP and Vista, and it seems
+    href="http://slated.org/windows_by_stealth_the_updates_you_dont_want";>
+    reported in 2007</a> for XP and Vista, and it seems
     that Microsoft used the same method to push the <a
-    href="#windows10-forcing">Windows
-    10 downgrade</a> to computers running Windows 7 and 8.</p>
+    href="/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html#windows10-forcing">
+    Windows 10 downgrade</a> to computers running Windows 7 and 8.</p>
 
     <p>In Windows 10, the universal back door
     is no longer hidden; all &ldquo;upgrades&rdquo; will be <a
-    
href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/windows-10-updates-to-be-automatic-and-mandatory-for-home-users/";>forcibly
-    and immediately imposed</a>.</p>
+    
href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/windows-10-updates-to-be-automatic-and-mandatory-for-home-users/";>
+    forcibly and immediately imposed</a>.</p>
   </li>
 
   <li id="M201512280">
-    <p><a
+    <p>Microsoft has <a
     
href="https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28/recently-bought-a-windows-computer-microsoft-probably-has-your-encryption-key/";>
-    Microsoft has backdoored its disk encryption</a>.</p>
+    backdoored its disk encryption</a>.</p>
   </li>
 
   <li id="M201308230">
@@ -97,10 +97,10 @@
     door capabilities of the TPM 2.0 chip.</p>
   </li>
 
-  <li id="M201112080">
-    <p><a
+  <li id="M201112081">
+    <p><a Windows 8 also has a back door for <a
     
href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2500036/desktop-apps/microsoft--we-can-remotely-delete-windows-8-apps.html";>
-    Windows 8 also has a back door for remotely deleting apps</a>.</p>
+    remotely deleting apps</a>.</p>
 
     <p>You might well decide to let a security service that you trust
     remotely <em>deactivate</em> programs that it considers malicious.
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@
   <li id="M201312040">
     <p><a
     
href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/credit-card-fraud-comes-of-age-with-first-known-point-of-sale-botnet/";>
-    Point-of-sale terminals running Windows were taken over and turned
-    into a botnet</a> for the purpose of collecting customers' credit
+    Point-of-sale terminals running Windows were taken over</a> and
+    turned into a botnet for the purpose of collecting customers' credit
     card numbers.</p>
   </li>
 </ul>
@@ -159,9 +159,10 @@
 
 <h3 id="interference">Microsoft Interference</h3>
 
-<p>Various proprietary programs often mess up the user's system. They are like 
sabotage, but they are not grave enough to qualify 
-for the word &ldquo;sabotage&rdquo;. Nonetheless, they are nasty and wrong. 
This section describes examples of Microsoft committing
-interference.</p>
+<p>Various proprietary programs often mess up the user's system. They
+are like sabotage, but they are not grave enough to qualify for the word
+&ldquo;sabotage&rdquo;. Nonetheless, they are nasty and wrong. This
+section describes examples of Microsoft committing interference.</p>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
   <li id="M201809120">
@@ -271,36 +272,33 @@
   </li>
 
   <li id="M201608170">
-    <p id="windows10-forcing">In 2015, users reported that <a
-    
href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2993490/windows/windows-10-upgrades-reportedly-appearing-as-mandatory-for-some-users.html#tk.rss_all";>
-    Microsoft was forcing them to replace Windows 7 and 8 with all-spying
-    Windows 10</a>.</p>
-
-    <p>Microsoft used many tricks to &ldquo;persuade&rdquo;
-    reluctant users to switch. Among other things, it forced <a
+    <p>In 2015, Microsoft committed acts of sabotage to trick
+    users of Windows 7 and 8 into installing all-spying Windows 10
+    against their will. Among other things, Microsoft forced their
+    computers to <a
     
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/11/microsoft-downloading-windows-1";>
-    stealth downloads of Windows 10</a>, apparently through a <a
-    href="#windows-update">universal
-    back door</a>. Not only did the unwanted downloads <a
+    silently download&hellip; the whole of Windows 10!</a>. Apparently,
+    this was done through a <a
+    href="/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors#windows-update">
+    universal back door</a>. Not only did the unwanted downloads <a
     
href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/windows_10_upgrade_satellite_link/";>
-    use up much needed resources</a>, but many of
-    the people who let installation proceed found
-    out that this &ldquo;upgrade&rdquo; was in fact a <a
+    use up much needed resources</a>, but many of the people who let
+    installation proceed found out that this “upgrade” was in fact a <a
     
href="http://gizmodo.com/woman-wins-10-000-from-microsoft-after-unwanted-window-1782666146";>
     downgrade</a>.</p>
 
     <p>Then Microsoft attacked the
     computers that were still running Windows 7 or 8 by <a
     
href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/3012278/microsoft-windows/microsoft-sets-stage-for-massive-windows-10-upgrade-strategy.html";>
-    repeatedly switching on a flag that urged
-    users to &ldquo;upgrade&rdquo; to Windows 10</a>
-    when they had turned it off. This was done through <a
+    repeatedly switching on a flag that urged users to
+    &ldquo;upgrade&rdquo; to Windows 10</a> when they had turned
+    it off, in the hope that some day they would fail to say no.
+    This was done through <a
     
href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/17/microsoft_windows_10_upgrade_gwx_vs_humanity/";>
-    deviant use of Windows Update</a>.</p>
-
-    <p>Later on, Microsoft published instructions on <a
+    deviant use of Windows Update</a>. (Later on, Microsoft published
+    instructions on <a
     
href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/microsoft-finally-has-a-proper-way-to-opt-out-of-windows-78-to-windows-10-upgrades/";>
-    how to permanently reject the downgrade to Windows 10</a>.</p>
+    how to permanently reject the downgrade to Windows 10</a>.)</p>
 
     <p>A detailed <a
     
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-blatantly-disregards-user-choice-and-privacy-deep-dive";>
@@ -599,7 +597,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/09/24 21:26:47 $
+$Date: 2018/09/26 19:13:01 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>