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all.html
malware-apple.html
malware-appliances.html
proprietary-back-doors.html
proprietary.html
proprietary-insecurity.html
proprietary-sabotage.html
proprietary-tethers.html
diff -rNU2 all.html all.html
--- all.html 2021-12-04 05:19:17.480564053 +0000
+++ all.html 2021-12-20 05:08:07.853746028 +0000
@@ -43,4 +43,32 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+<!--#set var='ADD' value='2021-12-19' --><!--#set var='PUB' value='2021-11-20'
--><li><small class='date-tag'>Added: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo
encoding='none' var='ADD' --><span class="gnun-split"></span> — Latest
reference: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo encoding='none' var='PUB'
--></small>
+ <p>NordicTrack, a company that sells
+ exercise machines with ability to show videos <a
+
href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/locked-out-of-god-mode-runners-are-hacking-their-treadmills/";>limits
+ what people can watch, and recently disabled a feature</a> that was
+ originally functional. This happened through automatic update and
+ probably involved a universal back door.</p>
+ </li>
+
+<!--#set var='ADD' value='2021-12-19' --><!--#set var='PUB' value='2021-11-20'
--><li><small class='date-tag'>Added: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo
encoding='none' var='ADD' --><span class="gnun-split"></span> — Latest
reference: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo encoding='none' var='PUB'
--></small>
+ <p>Hundreds of Tesla drivers <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/20/tesla-app-outage-elon-musk-apologises";>were
+ locked out of their cars as a result of Tesla's app suffering from an
+ outage</a>, which happened because the app is tethered to company's
+ servers.</p>
+ </li>
+
+<!--#set var='ADD' value='2021-12-19' --><!--#set var='PUB' value='2021-11-11'
--><li><small class='date-tag'>Added: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo
encoding='none' var='ADD' --><span class="gnun-split"></span> — Latest
reference: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo encoding='none' var='PUB'
--></small>
+ <p>Some researchers at Google <a
href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bw8y/google-caught-hackers-using-a-mac-zero-day-against-hong-kong-users";>found
+ a zero-day vulnerability on MacOS,
+ which crackers used to target people visiting the websites</a> of
+ a media outlet and a pro-democracy labor and political group in Hong
+ Kong.</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>
+
<!--#set var='ADD' value='2021-11-19' --><!--#set var='PUB' value='2021-10-25'
--><li><small class='date-tag'>Added: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo
encoding='none' var='ADD' --><span class="gnun-split"></span> — Latest
reference: <span class="gnun-split"></span><!--#echo encoding='none' var='PUB'
--></small>
<p>Ed Tech companies use their surveillance power to
@@ -2506,5 +2534,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/12/03 06:24:37 $
+$Date: 2021/12/19 08:18:48 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 malware-apple.html malware-apple.html
--- malware-apple.html 2021-12-04 05:19:17.612564064 +0000
+++ malware-apple.html 2021-12-20 05:08:07.921746034 +0000
@@ -264,4 +264,17 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202111110">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Some researchers at Google <a
href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bw8y/google-caught-hackers-using-a-mac-zero-day-against-hong-kong-users";>found
+ a zero-day vulnerability on MacOS,
+ which crackers used to target people visiting the websites</a> of
+ a media outlet and a pro-democracy labor and political group in Hong
+ Kong.</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="M202107180">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-07</small>'
@@ -1233,5 +1246,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/11/18 07:43:32 $
+$Date: 2021/12/19 07:13:39 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 malware-appliances.html malware-appliances.html
--- malware-appliances.html 2021-12-04 05:19:17.652564068 +0000
+++ malware-appliances.html 2021-12-20 05:08:07.925746034 +0000
@@ -60,4 +60,15 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202111201">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>NordicTrack, a company that sells
+ exercise machines with ability to show videos <a
+
href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/locked-out-of-god-mode-runners-are-hacking-their-treadmills/";>limits
+ what people can watch, and recently disabled a feature</a> that was
+ originally functional. This happened through automatic update and
+ probably involved a universal back door.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M202110160">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-10</small>'
@@ -1265,5 +1276,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/10/30 16:45:35 $
+$Date: 2021/12/19 08:49:11 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary-back-doors.html proprietary-back-doors.html
--- proprietary-back-doors.html 2021-12-04 05:19:18.140564107 +0000
+++ proprietary-back-doors.html 2021-12-20 05:08:08.569746087 +0000
@@ -511,4 +511,15 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202111201">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>NordicTrack, a company that sells
+ exercise machines with ability to show videos <a
+
href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/locked-out-of-god-mode-runners-are-hacking-their-treadmills/";>limits
+ what people can watch, and recently disabled a feature</a> that was
+ originally functional. This happened through automatic update and
+ probably involved a universal back door.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M202106220">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-06</small>'
@@ -981,5 +992,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/11/05 05:56:17 $
+$Date: 2021/12/19 08:18:48 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary.html proprietary.html
--- proprietary.html 2021-12-04 05:19:18.580564143 +0000
+++ proprietary.html 2021-12-20 05:08:08.717746099 +0000
@@ -97,6 +97,6 @@
</div>
-<p>As of November, 2021, the pages in this directory list around 550
-instances of malicious functionalities (with more than 620 references to
+<p>As of December, 2021, the pages in this directory list around 550
+instances of malicious functionalities (with more than 630 references to
back them up), but there are surely thousands more we don't know about.</p>
@@ -189,4 +189,38 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202111201">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>NordicTrack, a company that sells
+ exercise machines with ability to show videos <a
+
href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/locked-out-of-god-mode-runners-are-hacking-their-treadmills/";>limits
+ what people can watch, and recently disabled a feature</a> that was
+ originally functional. This happened through automatic update and
+ probably involved a universal back door.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202111200">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Hundreds of Tesla drivers <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/20/tesla-app-outage-elon-musk-apologises";>were
+ locked out of their cars as a result of Tesla's app suffering from an
+ outage</a>, which happened because the app is tethered to company's
+ servers.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202111110">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Some researchers at Google <a
href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bw8y/google-caught-hackers-using-a-mac-zero-day-against-hong-kong-users";>found
+ a zero-day vulnerability on MacOS,
+ which crackers used to target people visiting the websites</a> of
+ a media outlet and a pro-democracy labor and political group in Hong
+ Kong.</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="M202110250">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-10</small>'
@@ -214,37 +248,4 @@
an injustice, too.</p>
</li>
-
- <li id="M202111040">
- <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
- --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
- <p>Apple's new tactic to restrict users from
- repairing their own device and impose DRM on people is to <a
-
href="https://www.ifixit.com/News/54829/apples-new-screen-repair-trap-could-change-the-repair-industry-forever";>completely
- disable its Face ID functionality</a> when you replace its screen.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li id="M202108180">
- <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-08</small>'
- --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
- <p>Microsoft is making it harder and harder to <a
-
href="https://www.theverge.com/22630319/microsoft-windows-11-default-browser-changes";>replace
- default apps in its Windows</a> operating system and is pressuring
- users to use its proprietary programs instead. We believe the
- best approach to this would be replacing Windows with a free
- (as in freedom) operating system like GNU. We also maintain a <a
- href="/distros/free-distros.html">list of fully free distributions
- of GNU</a>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li id="M201802280">
- <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2018-02</small>'
- --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
- <p>Spotify app <a
-
href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639920/000119312518063434/d494294df1.htm";>harvests
- users' data to personally identify and know people</a> through music,
- their mood, mindset, activities, and tastes. There are over 150
- billion events logged daily on the program which contains users'
- data and personal information.</p>
- </li>
</ul>
<p class="button right-align">
@@ -309,5 +310,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/11/21 19:42:16 $
+$Date: 2021/12/19 08:18:48 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary-insecurity.html proprietary-insecurity.html
--- proprietary-insecurity.html 2021-12-04 05:19:18.668564150 +0000
+++ proprietary-insecurity.html 2021-12-20 05:08:08.753746102 +0000
@@ -80,4 +80,27 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202111200">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Hundreds of Tesla drivers <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/20/tesla-app-outage-elon-musk-apologises";>were
+ locked out of their cars as a result of Tesla's app suffering from an
+ outage</a>, which happened because the app is tethered to company's
+ servers.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202111110">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Some researchers at Google <a
href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bw8y/google-caught-hackers-using-a-mac-zero-day-against-hong-kong-users";>found
+ a zero-day vulnerability on MacOS,
+ which crackers used to target people visiting the websites</a> of
+ a media outlet and a pro-democracy labor and political group in Hong
+ Kong.</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="M202108170">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-08</small>'
@@ -1210,5 +1233,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/11/09 08:49:20 $
+$Date: 2021/12/19 07:18:02 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary-sabotage.html proprietary-sabotage.html
--- proprietary-sabotage.html 2021-12-04 05:19:19.120564187 +0000
+++ proprietary-sabotage.html 2021-12-20 05:08:08.965746119 +0000
@@ -63,4 +63,15 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202111201">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>NordicTrack, a company that sells
+ exercise machines with ability to show videos <a
+
href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/locked-out-of-god-mode-runners-are-hacking-their-treadmills/";>limits
+ what people can watch, and recently disabled a feature</a> that was
+ originally functional. This happened through automatic update and
+ probably involved a universal back door.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M202110130">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-10</small>'
@@ -859,5 +870,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/11/05 05:56:18 $
+$Date: 2021/12/19 08:18:48 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
diff -rNU2 proprietary-tethers.html proprietary-tethers.html
--- proprietary-tethers.html 2021-12-04 05:19:19.252564199 +0000
+++ proprietary-tethers.html 2021-12-20 05:08:08.993746121 +0000
@@ -70,4 +70,14 @@
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M202111200">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Hundreds of Tesla drivers <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/20/tesla-app-outage-elon-musk-apologises";>were
+ locked out of their cars as a result of Tesla's app suffering from an
+ outage</a>, which happened because the app is tethered to company's
+ servers.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M202007280">
<!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-07</small>'
@@ -384,5 +394,5 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/06/01 09:21:53 $
+$Date: 2021/12/19 07:18:02 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
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