On Saturday 02 April 2005 11:12 am, SigmaX wrote: | Miark wrote: | >On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:49:52 +0200, Philippe wrote: | >>>Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here | >>>ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ | >> | >>how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users, | >>and how to disable their snooping system: | >>http://helping.net/p2p/AdobeAcrobatSpyingonUsers.html | | Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, don't it? | | SigmaX
Actually, from what I read, it is not Adobe that is doing this. A third party has written an app to use a feature of Acrobat 7 (the ability to run Javascript within the document) so that the IP address of whomever is opening the *.pdf can be logged. I'm not certain that Adobe will take kindly to this twisting of what was probably good intentions. In effect, it has turned a "feature" into a "bug" in Acrobat Reader, in the mind of many people. Those of us on dial-up, and those with a dynamic IP wouldn't care, but users with a static IP should be at least a little bit pissed. Before we condemn Adobe, lets wait and see how this plays out (and maybe some will want to disable Java in the Reader and install the perl script to stop the nagging). Also, does anyone know of any site, anywhere, using this? Maybe, just boycotting those sites would be effective. Time will tell. e
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