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From: |
Therese Godefroy |
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Subject: |
www/proprietary malware-amazon.html |
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Date: |
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:59:45 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/09/27 07:59:45
Modified files:
proprietary : malware-amazon.html
Log message:
Regenerate from recfile.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-amazon.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.8&r2=1.9
Patches:
Index: malware-amazon.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-amazon.html,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -b -r1.8 -r1.9
--- malware-amazon.html 20 Sep 2018 06:43:31 -0000 1.8
+++ malware-amazon.html 27 Sep 2018 11:59:44 -0000 1.9
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 -->
+<!--
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Generated from propr-blurbs.rec. Please do not edit this file manually !
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-->
<title>Amazon's Software Is Malware
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/malware-amazon.translist" -->
@@ -47,7 +52,7 @@
</ul>
</div>
-<h3 id="swindle">Malware in the Kindle Swindle</h3>
+<h2 id="swindle">Malware in the Kindle Swindle</h2>
<p>We refer to this product as the
<a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Amazon Swindle</a>
@@ -55,81 +60,101 @@
management (DRM)</a> and <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">
other malicious functionalities</a>.</p>
-<h4 id="back-doors">Amazon Kindle Swindle Back Doors</h4>
-<ul>
- <li>
- <p>The Amazon Kindle-Swindle has a back door that has been used to
- <a
href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/";>
- remotely erase books</a>. One of the books erased was 1984, by George
Orwell.
- </p>
-
- <p>Amazon responded to criticism by saying it would delete books only
- following orders from the state. However, that policy didn't last.
- In 2012
- it <a
href="http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/kindle-user-claims-amazon-dele.html";>wiped
- a user's Kindle-Swindle and deleted her account</a>, then offered her
- kafkaesque “explanations.”</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The Kindle also has a
- <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200774090";>
- universal back door</a>.</p>
+<h3 id="back-doors">Amazon Kindle Swindle Back Doors</h3>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201503210">
+ <p>Amazon <a
+
href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150321/13350230396/while-bricking-jailbroken-fire-tvs-last-year-amazon-did-same-to-kindle-devices.shtml";>
+ downgraded the software in users' Swindles</a> so that those already
+ rooted would cease to function at all.</p>
+ </li>
- <p>Amazon <a
href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150321/13350230396/while-bricking-jailbroken-fire-tvs-last-year-amazon-did-same-to-kindle-devices.shtml";>
- downgraded the software in users' Swindles</a>
- so that those already rooted would cease to function at all.</p></li>
+ <li id="M201210221">
+ <p>The Amazon Kindle-Swindle has a back door that has been used to <a
+
href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/";>
+ remotely erase books</a>. One of the books erased was
+ <cite>1984</cite>, by George Orwell.</p>
+
+ <p>Amazon responded to criticism by saying it
+ would delete books only following orders from the
+ state. However, that policy didn't last. In 2012 it <a
+
href="http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/kindle-user-claims-amazon-dele.html";>
+ wiped a user's Kindle-Swindle and deleted her account</a>, then
+ offered her kafkaesque “explanations.”</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M200700000">
+ <p>The Kindle also has a <a
+
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200774090";>
+ universal back door</a>.</p>
+ </li>
</ul>
-<h4 id="surveillance">Amazon Kindle Swindle Surveillance</h4>
-<ul>
- <li><p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation has examined and found <a
- href="https://www.eff.org/pages/reader-privacy-chart-2012";>various kinds of
- surveillance in the Swindle and other e-readers</a>.</p></li>
+
+<h3 id="surveillance">Amazon Kindle Swindle Surveillance</h3>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201212031">
+ <p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation has examined and found <a
+ href="https://www.eff.org/pages/reader-privacy-chart-2012";>various
+ kinds of surveillance in the Swindle and other e-readers</a>.</p>
+ </li>
</ul>
-<h4 id="drm">Amazon Kindle Swindle DRM</h4>
-<ul>
- <li><p><a href="http://techin.oureverydaylife.com/kindle-drm-17841.html";>
+
+<h3 id="drm">Amazon Kindle Swindle DRM</h3>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201304050">
+ <p><a href="http://techin.oureverydaylife.com/kindle-drm-17841.html";>
The Amazon Kindle has DRM</a>. That article is flawed in that it
fails to treat DRM as an ethical question; it takes for granted that
- whatever Amazon might do to its users is legitimate. It refers to DRM
- as digital “rights” management, which is the spin term
- used to promote DRM. Nonetheless it serves as a reference for the
- facts.</p></li>
+ whatever Amazon might do to its users is legitimate. It refers to
+ DRM as digital “rights” management, which is the spin
+ term used to promote DRM. Nonetheless it serves as a reference for
+ the facts.</p>
+ </li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="echo">Malware in the Echo</h3>
-<h4 id="echo-back-doors">Amazon Echo Back Doors</h4>
-<ul>
- <li><p>The Amazon Echo appears to have a universal back door, since
- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo#Software_updates";>
+<h2 id="echo">Malware in the Echo</h2>
+
+<h3>Amazon Echo Back Doors</h3>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201606060">
+ <p>The Amazon Echo appears to have a universal back door, since <a
+ href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo#Software_updates";>
it installs “updates” automatically</a>.</p>
- <p>We have found nothing explicitly documenting the lack of any way to
- disable remote changes to the software, so we are not completely sure
- there isn't one, but it seems pretty clear.</p>
+
+ <p>We have found nothing explicitly documenting the lack of any way
+ to disable remote changes to the software, so we are not completely
+ sure there isn't one, but this seems pretty clear.</p>
</li>
</ul>
-<h4 id="echo-surveillance">Amazon Echo Surveillance</h4>
-<ul>
- <li><p>Crackers found a way to break the security of an Amazon device,
- and <a
- href="https://boingboing.net/2018/08/12/alexa-bob-carol.html";>
+
+<h3>Amazon Echo Surveillance</h3>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201808120">
+ <p>Crackers found a way to break the security of an Amazon device,
+ and <a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/08/12/alexa-bob-carol.html";>
turn it into a listening device</a> for them.</p>
+
<p>It was very difficult for them to do this. The job would be much
- easier for Amazon. And if some government such as China or the
- US told Amazon to do this, or cease to sell the product in that
- country, do you think Amazon would have the moral fiber to say
- no?</p>
+ easier for Amazon. And if some government such as China or the US
+ told Amazon to do this, or cease to sell the product in that country,
+ do you think Amazon would have the moral fiber to say no?</p>
+
<p>These crackers are probably hackers too, but please <a
- href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html";>
- don't use “hacking” to mean “breaking
- security”</a>.</p>
+ href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html";> don't use
+ “hacking” to mean “breaking security”</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
+
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
<div id="footer">
@@ -187,7 +212,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/09/20 06:43:31 $
+$Date: 2018/09/27 11:59:44 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>