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Therese Godefroy |
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www/proprietary proprietary-tethers.html |
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Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:20:58 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/09/27 12:20:58
Modified files:
proprietary : proprietary-tethers.html
Log message:
Regenerate from recfile.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.22&r2=1.23
Patches:
Index: proprietary-tethers.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
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<title>Proprietary Tethers
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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@@ -25,110 +30,118 @@
to inform us. Please include the URL of a trustworthy reference or two
to present the specifics.</p>
-<ul>
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201807050">
+ <p>The Jawbone fitness tracker was tethered to a proprietary phone
+ app. In 2017, the company shut down and made the app stop working. <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/05/defunct-jawbone-fitness-trackers-kept-selling-after-app-closure-says-which";>All
+ the existing trackers stopped working forever</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The article focuses on a further nasty fillip, that sales of the
+ broken devices continued. But I think that is a secondary issue;
+ it made the nasty consequences extend to some additional people.
+ The fundamental wrong was to design the devices to depend on something
+ else that didn't respect users' freedom.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201806250">
+ <p>The game Metal Gear Rising for
+ MacOS was tethered to a server. The company <a
+
href="http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/400087-metal-gear-rising-mac-unplayable-drm";>
+ shut down the server, and all copies stopped working</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201711080">
+ <p>Logitech will sabotage
+ all Harmony Link household control devices by <a
+
href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/logitech-to-shut-down-service-and-support-for-harmony-link-devices-in-2018/";>
+ turning off the server through which the products' supposed owners
+ communicate with them</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The owners suspect this is to pressure them to buy a newer model. If
+ they are wise, they will learn, rather, to distrust any product that
+ requires users to talk with them through some specialized service.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201711010">
+ <p>Sony has brought back its robotic pet Aibo, this time <a
+
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj778v/sony-wants-to-sell-you-a-subscription-to-a-robot-dog-aibo-90s-pet";>
+ with a universal back door, and tethered to a server that requires
+ a subscription</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201710041">
+ <p>The Canary home surveillance
+ camera has been sabotaged by its manufacturer, <a
+
href="https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/4/16426394/canary-smart-home-camera-free-service-update-change";>
+ turning off many features unless the user starts paying for a
+ subscription</a>.</p>
-<li>
-<p>The game Metal Gear Rising for MacOS was tethered to a server.
-The company <a
-href="http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/400087-metal-gear-rising-mac-unplayable-drm";>
-shut down the server, and all copies stopped working</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>The Jawbone fitness tracker was tethered to a proprietary phone
-app. In 2017, the company shut down and made the app stop
-working. <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/05/defunct-jawbone-fitness-trackers-kept-selling-after-app-closure-says-which";>All
-the existing trackers stopped working forever</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The article focuses on a further nasty fillip, that sales of the
-broken devices continued. But I think that is a secondary issue; it
-made the nasty consequences extend to some additional people. The
-fundamental wrong was to design the devices to depend on something
-else that didn't respect users' freedom.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Logitech will sabotage all Harmony Link household control devices by
-<a
href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/logitech-to-shut-down-service-and-support-for-harmony-link-devices-in-2018/";>
-turning off the server through which the products' supposed owners
-communicate with them</a>.</p>
-<p>The owners suspect this is to pressure them to buy a newer model. If
-they are wise, they will learn, rather, to distrust any product that
-requires users to talk with them through some specialized service.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Sony has brought back its robotic pet Aibo, this time <a
-href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj778v/sony-wants-to-sell-you-a-subscription-to-a-robot-dog-aibo-90s-pet";>
-with a universal back door, and tethered to a server that requires a
-subscription</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
- <p>The Canary home surveillance camera has been sabotaged by its
- manufacturer, <a
-href="https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/4/16426394/canary-smart-home-camera-free-service-update-change";>
- turning off many features unless the user starts
- paying for a subscription</a>.</p>
<p>With manufacturers like these, who needs security breakers?</p>
+
<p>The purchasers should learn the larger lesson and reject connected
- appliances with embedded proprietary software. Every such product
- is a temptation to commit sabotage.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
- <p>Bird and rabbit pets were implemented for Second Life by a company
-that tethered their food to a server.
- <a
href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/19/second-life-ozimals-pet-rabbits-dying";>
+ appliances with embedded proprietary software. Every such product is
+ a temptation to commit sabotage.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201705180">
+ <p>Bird and rabbit pets were implemented for Second
+ Life by a company that tethered their food to a server. <a
+
href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/19/second-life-ozimals-pet-rabbits-dying";>
It shut down the server and the pets more or less died</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Anova sabotaged users' cooking devices with a downgrade that
-tethered them to a remote server. <a
href="https://consumerist.com/2017/04/12/anova-ticks-off-customers-by-requiring-mandatory-accounts-to-cook-food/#more-10275062";>Unless
users create an account on Anova's servers, their
-cookers won't function.</a></p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>nVidia's proprietary GeForce Experience <a
href="http://www.gamersnexus.net/industry/2672-geforce-experience-data-transfer-analysis";>makes
-users identify themselves and then sends personal data about them to
-nVidia servers</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Adobe applications <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160308062844/http://www.wired.com/2013/05/adobe-creative-cloud-petition/";>require
-periodic connection to a server</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<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>
-
-<li>
-<p>A half-blind security critique of a tracking app: it found that <a
-href="http://www.consumerreports.org/mobile-security-software/glow-pregnancy-app-exposed-women-to-privacy-threats/";>
-blatant flaws allowed anyone to snoop on a user's personal data</a>.
-The critique fails entirely to express concern that the app sends the
-personal data to a server, where the <em>developer</em> gets it all.
-This “service” is for suckers!</p>
-
-<p>The server surely has a “privacy policy,” and surely it
-is worthless since nearly all of them are.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Google/Alphabet <a
-href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/nest-reminds-customers-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-be";>
-intentionally broke Revolv home automatic control products that depended on
-a server</a> to function, by shutting down the server.
-The lesson is, reject all such products. Insist
-on self-contained computers that run free software!</p>
-</li>
+ </li>
+ <li id="M201704120">
+ <p>Anova sabotaged users' cooking devices
+ with a downgrade that tethered them to a remote server. <a
+
href="https://consumerist.com/2017/04/12/anova-ticks-off-customers-by-requiring-mandatory-accounts-to-cook-food/#more-10275062";>Unless
+ users create an account on Anova's servers, their cookers won't
+ function</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201611070">
+ <p>nVidia's proprietary GeForce Experience <a
+
href="http://www.gamersnexus.net/industry/2672-geforce-experience-data-transfer-analysis";>makes
+ users identify themselves and then sends personal data about them to
+ nVidia servers</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201609280">
+ <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>
+
+ <li id="M201607280">
+ <p>A half-blind security critique of a tracking app: it found that <a
+
href="http://www.consumerreports.org/mobile-security-software/glow-pregnancy-app-exposed-women-to-privacy-threats/";>
+ blatant flaws allowed anyone to snoop on a user's personal data</a>.
+ The critique fails entirely to express concern that the app sends the
+ personal data to a server, where the <em>developer</em> gets it all.
+ This “service” is for suckers!</p>
+
+ <p>The server surely has a “privacy policy,” and surely
+ it is worthless since nearly all of them are.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201604050">
+ <p>Google/Alphabet <a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/nest-reminds-customers-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-be";>
+ intentionally broke Revolv home automatic control products that
+ depended on a server</a> to function, by shutting down the server.
+ The lesson is, reject all such products. Insist on self-contained
+ computers that run free software!</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201305100">
+ <p>Adobe applications <a
+ href="https://www.wired.com/2013/05/adobe-creative-cloud-petition/";>
+ require periodic connection to a server</a>.</p>
+ </li>
</ul>
+
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@@ -186,7 +199,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2018/07/27 02:45:43 $
+$Date: 2018/09/27 16:20:57 $
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