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malware-amazon.html
proprietary-drm.html
proprietary.html
proprietary-insecurity.html
proprietary-surveillance.html
diff -rNU2 malware-amazon.html malware-amazon.html
--- malware-amazon.html 2021-03-16 04:02:27.599433676 +0000
+++ malware-amazon.html 2021-03-17 04:04:07.377325135 +0000
@@ -143,4 +143,21 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202103100">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-03</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Amazon's monopoly and DRM is <a
+
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/10/amazon-library-ebook-monopoly";>stopping
+ public libraries from lending e-books and
+ audiobooks</a>. Amazon became powerful in e-book world by <a
+ href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Swindle</a>,
+ and is now misusing its power and violates people's rights using
+ <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org";>Digital Restrictions
+ Management</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The article is written in a way that endorses DRM in general, which
+ is unacceptable. <a href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html">DRM is
+ an injustice to people</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M201704130.1">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2017-04</small>'
@@ -372,5 +389,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/03/15 11:09:51 $
+$Date: 2021/03/16 19:19:14 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary-drm.html proprietary-drm.html
--- proprietary-drm.html 2021-03-16 04:02:27.639433676 +0000
+++ proprietary-drm.html 2021-03-17 04:04:07.417325135 +0000
@@ -78,4 +78,21 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202103100">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-03</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Amazon's monopoly and DRM is <a
+
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/10/amazon-library-ebook-monopoly";>stopping
+ public libraries from lending e-books and
+ audiobooks</a>. Amazon became powerful in e-book world by <a
+ href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Swindle</a>,
+ and is now misusing its power and violates people's rights using
+ <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org";>Digital Restrictions
+ Management</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The article is written in a way that endorses DRM in general, which
+ is unacceptable. <a href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html">DRM is
+ an injustice to people</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M202010180">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-10</small>'
@@ -482,5 +499,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/03/15 11:09:52 $
+$Date: 2021/03/16 19:20:01 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary.html proprietary.html
--- proprietary.html 2021-03-16 04:02:27.643433676 +0000
+++ proprietary.html 2021-03-17 04:04:07.421325135 +0000
@@ -97,6 +97,6 @@
</div>
-<p>As of February, 2021, the pages in this directory list around 500
-instances of malicious functionalities (with more than 580 references to
+<p>As of March, 2021, the pages in this directory list around 500
+instances of malicious functionalities (with more than 590 references to
back them up), but there are surely thousands more we don't know about.</p>
@@ -187,4 +187,53 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202103100">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-03</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Amazon's monopoly and DRM is <a
+
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/10/amazon-library-ebook-monopoly";>stopping
+ public libraries from lending e-books and
+ audiobooks</a>. Amazon became powerful in e-book world by <a
+ href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Swindle</a>,
+ and is now misusing its power and violates people's rights using
+ <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org";>Digital Restrictions
+ Management</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The article is written in a way that endorses DRM in general, which
+ is unacceptable. <a href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html">DRM is
+ an injustice to people</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202103090">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-03</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p><a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams";>Over
150 thousand security cameras that used Verkada
+ company's proprietary software are cracked</a> by a major security
+ breach. Crackers have had access to security archives of various
+ gyms, hospitals, jails, schools, and police stations that have used
+ Verdaka's cameras.</p>
+
+ <p><a href="/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">It is injustice
+ to the public</a> for gyms, stores, hospitals, jails, and schools to
+ hand “security” footage to a company from which the government
can
+ collect it at any time, without even telling them.</p>
+
+ <p><small>Please note that the article
+ wrongly refers to crackers as “<a
+
href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker">hackers</a>”.</small></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202010282">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-10</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>TV manufacturers are turning to produce only
+ “Smart” TV sets (which include spyware) that <a
+ href="https://frame.work/blog/in-defense-of-dumb-tvs";>it's now very
+ hard to find a TV that doesn't spy on you</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>It appears that those manufacturers business model is not to produce
+ TV and sell them for money, but to collect your personal data and
+ (possibly) hand over them to others for benefit.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M201809121">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2018-09</small>'
@@ -209,36 +258,4 @@
the last disaster with proprietary programs.</p>
</li>
-
- <li id="M202102110">
- <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-02</small>'
- --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
- <p>Researchers at the security firm SentinelOne discovered a <a
-
href="https://www.wired.com/story/windows-defender-vulnerability-twelve-years/";>security
- flaw in proprietary program Microsoft Windows Defender that lurked
- undetected for 12 years</a>. If the program was free (as in freedom),
- more people would have had a chance to notice the problem, therefore,
- it could've been fixed a lot sooner.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li id="M202004301">
- <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-04</small>'
- --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
- <p>Proprietary programs Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx <a
-
href="https://www.consumerreports.org/video-conferencing-services/videoconferencing-privacy-issues-google-microsoft-webex/";>are
- collecting user's personal and identifiable data</a> including how long
- a call lasts, who's participating in the call, and the IP addresses
- of everyone taking part. From experience, this can even harm users
- physically if those companies hand over data to governments.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li id="M202004270">
- <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-04</small>'
- --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
- <p>The proprietary program Microsoft Teams' insecurity <a
-
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/04/27/your-whole-companys-microsoft-teams-data-couldve-been-stolen-with-an-evil-gif";>could
- have let a malicious GIF steal user data from Microsoft Teams
- accounts</a>, possibly across an entire company, and taken control
- of “an organization's entire roster of Teams accounts.”</p>
- </li>
</ul>
@@ -303,5 +320,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/03/15 11:09:52 $
+$Date: 2021/03/16 19:19:14 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary-insecurity.html proprietary-insecurity.html
--- proprietary-insecurity.html 2021-03-16 04:02:27.647433676 +0000
+++ proprietary-insecurity.html 2021-03-17 04:04:07.429325135 +0000
@@ -77,4 +77,23 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202103090">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-03</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p><a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams";>Over
150 thousand security cameras that used Verkada
+ company's proprietary software are cracked</a> by a major security
+ breach. Crackers have had access to security archives of various
+ gyms, hospitals, jails, schools, and police stations that have used
+ Verdaka's cameras.</p>
+
+ <p><a href="/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">It is injustice
+ to the public</a> for gyms, stores, hospitals, jails, and schools to
+ hand “security” footage to a company from which the government
can
+ collect it at any time, without even telling them.</p>
+
+ <p><small>Please note that the article
+ wrongly refers to crackers as “<a
+
href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker">hackers</a>”.</small></p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M202103050">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-03</small>'
@@ -1058,5 +1077,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/03/15 11:09:52 $
+$Date: 2021/03/16 18:06:36 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary-surveillance.html proprietary-surveillance.html
--- proprietary-surveillance.html 2021-03-16 04:02:27.667433676 +0000
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html 2021-03-17 04:04:07.453325135 +0000
@@ -2134,4 +2134,17 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202010282">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-10</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>TV manufacturers are turning to produce only
+ “Smart” TV sets (which include spyware) that <a
+ href="https://frame.work/blog/in-defense-of-dumb-tvs";>it's now very
+ hard to find a TV that doesn't spy on you</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>It appears that those manufacturers business model is not to produce
+ TV and sell them for money, but to collect your personal data and
+ (possibly) hand over them to others for benefit.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M202006250">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-06</small>'
@@ -3374,5 +3387,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/03/15 11:09:52 $
+$Date: 2021/03/16 17:07:27 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
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