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Re: Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
Date 2014-10-10 20:12 +1100
Message-ID <c9pm80Fl0diU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 8/10/2014 8:50 PM, Rich wrote:
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/adobe-spyware-reveals-again-price-drm-your-privacy-and-security
>
>     The publishing world may finally be facing its "rootkit scandal." Two
>     independent reports claim that Adobe's e-book software, "Digital
>     Editions," logs every document readers add to their local "library,"
>     tracks what happens with those files, and then sends those logs back to
>     the mother-ship, over the Internet, in the clear. In other words, Adobe
>     is not only tracking your reading habits, it's making it really, really
>     easy for others to do so as well.
>

This revelation is surely going to result in people generating and 
sending entirely fictitious reports to poison Adobe's data beyond any 
possible usefulness.

I'd do it myself if I didn't have this paint that needs watching while 
it dries.

Sylvia.

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Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-08 09:50 +0000
  Re: Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-10-09 19:37 +0100
    Re: Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-09 20:15 +0000
  Re: Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-10-10 20:12 +1100

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