www/proprietary proprietary-sabotage.html propr...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/04/01 06:33:42

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-sabotage.html 
                         proprietary-tethers.html proprietary.html 
        proprietary/workshop: mal.rec 

Log message:
        Tesco tablets sabotaged by deactivating server (www-discuss 2019-03-31).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.81&r2=1.82
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.36&r2=1.37
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.103&r2=1.104
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec?cvsroot=www&r1=1.66&r2=1.67

Patches:
Index: proprietary-sabotage.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html,v
retrieving revision 1.81
retrieving revision 1.82
diff -u -b -r1.81 -r1.82
--- proprietary-sabotage.html   30 Mar 2019 08:38:41 -0000      1.81
+++ proprietary-sabotage.html   1 Apr 2019 10:33:41 -0000       1.82
@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@
 <div class="column-limit" id="proprietary-sabotage"></div>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201903250">
+    <p>The British supermarket Tesco sold tablets which were tethered
+    to Tesco's server for reinstalling default settings.  Tesco <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/mar/25/tesco-hudl-tablet-support-kill-fix";>
+    turned off the server for old models</a>, so now if you try to
+    reinstall the default settings, it bricks them instead.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201902041">
     <p>Twenty nine &ldquo;beauty camera&rdquo; apps that used to be
     on Google Play had one or more malicious functionalities, such
@@ -566,7 +574,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/03/30 08:38:41 $
+$Date: 2019/04/01 10:33:41 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary-tethers.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html,v
retrieving revision 1.36
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -b -r1.36 -r1.37
--- proprietary-tethers.html    9 Feb 2019 22:50:52 -0000       1.36
+++ proprietary-tethers.html    1 Apr 2019 10:33:41 -0000       1.37
@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@
 <div class="column-limit" id="proprietary-tethers"></div>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201903250">
+    <p>The British supermarket Tesco sold tablets which were tethered
+    to Tesco's server for reinstalling default settings.  Tesco <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/mar/25/tesco-hudl-tablet-support-kill-fix";>
+    turned off the server for old models</a>, so now if you try to
+    reinstall the default settings, it bricks them instead.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201809260">
     <p>Honeywell's &ldquo;smart&rdquo; thermostats communicate
     only through the company's server. They have
@@ -220,7 +228,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/02/09 22:50:52 $
+$Date: 2019/04/01 10:33:41 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.103
retrieving revision 1.104
diff -u -b -r1.103 -r1.104
--- proprietary.html    30 Mar 2019 08:38:41 -0000      1.103
+++ proprietary.html    1 Apr 2019 10:33:41 -0000       1.104
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 it is standard practice.  Modern proprietary software is typically
 a way to be had.</p>
 
-<p>As of October, 2018, the pages in this directory list around 350
+<p>As of April, 2019, the pages in this directory list around 400
 instances of malicious functionalities (with more than 400 references to
 back them up), but there are surely thousands more we don't know about.</p>
 
@@ -146,6 +146,14 @@
 <h3 id="latest">Latest additions</h3>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201903250">
+    <p>The British supermarket Tesco sold tablets which were tethered
+    to Tesco's server for reinstalling default settings.  Tesco <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/mar/25/tesco-hudl-tablet-support-kill-fix";>
+    turned off the server for old models</a>, so now if you try to
+    reinstall the default settings, it bricks them instead.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201903201">
     <p>A study of 24 health apps found that 19 of them <a
     
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pan9e8/health-apps-can-share-your-data-everywhere-new-study-shows";>
@@ -202,17 +210,6 @@
     href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker">improperly refers to crackers
     as &ldquo;hackers&rdquo;</a>.</p>
   </li>
-
-  <li id="M201811300">
-    <p>In China, it is mandatory for electric
-    cars to be equipped with a terminal that <a
-    href="https://www.apnews.com/4a749a4211904784826b45e812cff4ca";>
-    transfers technical data, including car location,
-    to a government-run platform</a>. In practice, <a
-    href="/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html#car-spying">
-    manufacturers collect this data</a> as part of their own spying, then
-    forward it to the government-run platform.</p>
-  </li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -273,7 +270,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/03/30 08:38:41 $
+$Date: 2019/04/01 10:33:41 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: workshop/mal.rec
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec,v
retrieving revision 1.66
retrieving revision 1.67
diff -u -b -r1.66 -r1.67
--- workshop/mal.rec    30 Mar 2019 08:38:41 -0000      1.66
+++ workshop/mal.rec    1 Apr 2019 10:33:41 -0000       1.67
@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@
 ####    Please don't remove the blank line after this marker!    ####
 # ADD NEW BLURB HERE
 
+Added: 2019-04-01
+Id: 201903250
+RT: www-discuss 2019-03-31 (Tesco tablets sabotaged by...)
+PubDate: 2019-03-25
+Target: proprietary-tethers.html proprietary-tethers
+Target: proprietary-sabotage.html proprietary-sabotage
+Keywords: tesco
+Blurb: <p>The British supermarket Tesco sold tablets which were tethered
++   to Tesco's server for reinstalling default settings.  Tesco <a
++   
href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/mar/25/tesco-hudl-tablet-support-kill-fix";>
++   turned off the server for old models</a>, so now if you try to
++   reinstall the default settings, it bricks them instead.</p>
+
 Added: 2019-03-28
 Id: 201903201
 RT: www-discuss 2019-03-27 (...health-apps-can-share-your-data...)