www/proprietary proprietary-tethers.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/10/01 04:18:46

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-tethers.html 

Log message:
        Add Honeywell's thermostats (RT #1326061).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.23&r2=1.24

Patches:
Index: proprietary-tethers.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html,v
retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -b -r1.23 -r1.24
--- proprietary-tethers.html    27 Sep 2018 16:20:57 -0000      1.23
+++ proprietary-tethers.html    1 Oct 2018 08:18:46 -0000       1.24
@@ -31,6 +31,20 @@
 to present the specifics.</p>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201809260">
+    <p>Honeywell's "smart" thermostats communicate
+    only through the company's server. They have
+    all the nasty characteristics of such devices: <a
+    
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/honeywell-iot-thermostats-server-outage-2018-9";>
+    surveillance, and danger of sabotage</a> (of a specific user, or of
+    all users at once), as well as the risk of an outage (which is what
+    just happened).</p>
+
+    <p>In addition, setting the desired temperature requires running
+    nonfree software. With an old-fashioned thermostat, you can do it
+    using controls right on the thermostat.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <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
@@ -199,7 +213,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/09/27 16:20:57 $
+$Date: 2018/10/01 08:18:46 $
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 </p>
 </div>