“It is fashionable to recognize the viciousness of today’s computing only to declare resistance unthinkable. “Should you trust an Internet of proprietary software things?” he rhetorically asked. Similarly, he identified streaming apps as malware, since they prevent people from “saving a copy of the data that they receive,” and track viewing and listening habits. He also said that paid apps contain plenty of malware as well, as they can spy on the user and report data to other companies. Even Android contains malware in a nonfree component: a back door for remote forcible installation or deinstallation of any app,” Stallman added. “Apple systems are malware too: Mac OS snoops and shackles iOS snoops, shackles, censors apps and has a back door. Microsoft sabotages Windows users by showing security holes to the NSA before fixing them.”

“Windows snoops on users, shackles users and, on mobiles, censors apps it also has a universal back door that allows Microsoft to remotely impose software changes. “What kinds of programs constitute malware? Operating systems, first of all,” he said. Stallman says OS software is currently designed to spy on users, shackle them via DRM and even have backdoors that can be used for malicious purposes.

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