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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

#5265 — Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security

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.

   And it's all being done in the name of copyright enforcement. After all,
   the great "promise" of Digital Editions is that it can help publishers
   "securely distribute" and manage access to books. Libraries, for
   example, encourage their patrons to use the software, because it helps
   them comply with the restrictions publishers impose on electronic
   lending.

   How big is the problem? Not completely clear, but it could be pretty
   big. First, it appears Adobe is tracking more than many readers may
   realize, including information about self-published and purchased books.
   If the independent reports are correct, Adobe may be scanning your
   entire electronic library. Borrowing a copy of Moby Dick from your
   public library shouldn't be a license to scan your cookbook collection.

   ...

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#5280

On 2014-10-08 10:50, Rich wrote:
>    If the independent reports are correct, Adobe may be scanning your
>    entire electronic library. Borrowing a copy of Moby Dick from your
>    public library shouldn't be a license to scan your cookbook collection.

I wonder if Adobe knows about my copies of Gerrard Winstanley, the
Rights of Man, the Communist Manifesto, Capital, The Anarchist Cookbook,
Capital in the 21st Century and The Motorcycle Diaries?

Nope, I don't use any Adobe software, my library is still secret. ;-)

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#5283

On 2014-10-09, Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> wrote:
> I wonder if Adobe knows about my copies of Gerrard Winstanley, the
> Rights of Man, the Communist Manifesto, Capital, The Anarchist Cookbook,
> Capital in the 21st Century and The Motorcycle Diaries?
>
> Nope, I don't use any Adobe software, my library is still secret. ;-)

You ought to add Robert Persig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance to that list.  :)

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#5290

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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