Re: Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-06 Thread mike wilson
Not guilty on all counts below: I lead such a deprived life. On 05/10/2013, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2013-10-04 14:16 Mark Roberts wrote http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/adobe-hacking-data-breach-cyber-attack cloud not required; if you have registered any

Re: Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-06 Thread Eactivist
They sent me one of those too, didn't realize that was the cause. I guess now I have to take it more seriously. Not that I am in the cloud, because I am firmly grounded. Marnie aka Doe ;-) In a message dated 10/5/2013 9:49:20 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bori...@gmail.com writes: That's

Re: Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-05 Thread steve harley
on 2013-10-04 14:16 Mark Roberts wrote http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/adobe-hacking-data-breach-cyber-attack cloud not required; if you have registered any Adobe software, your info may have been stolen; if you paid Adobe directly by credit card, that info may be stolen

Re: Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-05 Thread Boris Liberman
That's what might have happened to me, apparently. I have created an acct with Adobe when I bought LR some years ago. Just got my e-mail from them wherein they deeply apologized and had me reset my pwd for my Adobe ID or whatever. I don't believe I gave them my credit card info, but it stinks

Re: Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-05 Thread David Parsons
This is from someone in my camera club who called Adobe: FYI: I just called Adobe to determine which credit card I would have used to purchase their products. They told me they don't keep the credit card numbers for those who have purchased specific items. Only if someone purchased a subscription

Re: Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-05 Thread Mark Roberts
steve harley wrote: on 2013-10-04 14:16 Mark Roberts wrote http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/adobe-hacking-data-breach-cyber-attack cloud not required; if you have registered any Adobe software, your info may have been stolen; if you paid Adobe directly by credit card, that

Re: Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-05 Thread steve harley
on 2013-10-05 11:07 David Parsons wrote Only if someone purchased a subscription to Adobe with monthly payments will they have your card info. that sounds reasonable on the face of it, but Adobe is in major CYA mode so i would maintain a healthy skepticism of anything about which Adobe says i

Re: Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-05 Thread steve harley
on 2013-10-05 11:08 Mark Roberts wrote steve harley wrote: and since they stole code too, if you use Acrobat, Adobe Reader or Flash in your browser, new zero-day exploits may pwn your computer Acrobat Reader is a no-no. I use Foxit PDF Reader, which I actually like better. i use Preview on

Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-04 Thread Mark Roberts
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/adobe-hacking-data-breach-cyber-attack -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: Another reason to be wary of Adobe's Creative Cloud

2013-10-04 Thread P.J. Alling
The beauty of living in the cloud. On 10/4/2013 4:16 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/adobe-hacking-data-breach-cyber-attack -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML